Guide to the Papers of Tim Winton
MS 8583
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Class 2. Consignment received 1996
This consignment comprises notebooks, early notes and jottings, handwritten drafts, typescripts and page proofs of The Riders, An Open Swimmer, That Eye the Sky, In the Winter Dark, Lockie Leonard: Scumbuster plus correspondence with publishers Allen and Unwin and McPhee Gribble from 1981-1996...
Series 9. The Riders
Published in September 1994 by Macmillan, the book was subsequently published in London by Picador (February 1995) and in New York by Scribner (June 1995). The Riders was a finalist for the 1995 Booker Prize and won the south-east Asian section of the Commonwealth Writers Prize. This comprehensive collection includes early notes, the first handwritten draft, typescript drafts, typesetting and page proofs, copies of the first editions including two audio books, book reviews, newspaper articles and the tape of an interview with the author recorded for the BBC in 1995.
Audio tapes, readings of novel for radio. Tape of interview with the author for BBC 1995 (File 21) - Box 26
The Riders Read by Stanley McGeagh 1994, 1994 (Item NLA.MS-SAV019752) - Cassette-Box 948
Sides 1 & 2
The Riders Read by Stanley McGeagh 1994, 1994 (Item NLA.MS-SAV019753) - Cassette-Box 948
Sides 3 & 4
The Riders Read by Stanley McGeagh 1994, 1994 (Item NLA.MS-SAV019755) - Cassette-Box 948
Sides 7 & 8
The Riders Read by Stanley McGeagh 1994, 1994 (Item NLA.MS-SAV019756) - Cassette-Box 948
Sides 9 & 10
The Riders Read by Stanley McGeagh 1994, 1994 (Item NLA.MS-SAV019757) - Cassette-Box 948
Sides 11 & 12
The Riders Read by Stanley McGeagh 1994, 1994 (Item NLA.MS-SAV019758) - Cassette-Box 948
Sides 13 & 14
Class 3. Consignment received 2015
This consignment comprises handwritten drafts, typescripts, proofs, research notes, first and special editions of Tim Winton's books including Breath, Blueback, The Deep, Dirt Music, Down to Earth with Richard Woldendorp, Land's Edge, Cloudstreet, The Turning, The Riders, Rising Water, Shrine, Signs of Life, Eyrie, Leaning on the Wind and the Lockie Leonard series. The collection also includes screenplays, theatrical adaptions, correspondence, media articles and reviews, marketing and publicity, book layouts and designs, photographs and pictures, posters, awards, journals, commemorative stamps, DVD's and CD's as well as records relating to Tim Winton's environmental activism...