{"product_id":"9781761344916","title":"Juice","description":"Author: Winton, Tim\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9781761344916\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Penguin Australia Pty Ltd\u003cbr\u003eYear first published: 17 Mar 2026\u003cbr\u003ePages: 528\u003cbr\u003eFormat: Paperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn epic novel of determination, survival, and the limits of the human spirit. This is Tim Winton as you've never read him before. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'A masterful story for the ages . . . a book to hold close in the whip of hot wind, to commiserate with, to sing with. To read and weep.' TARA JUNE WINCH, \u003ci\u003eGUARDIAN\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e'A hold-your-breath adventure set in an utterly plausible, sun-hammered future, JUICE will stab your conscience and break your heart.' EMMA DONOGHUE\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e'A searing but essential look at Earth after the human-induced apocalypse. Too real to be true. Too true to be real.' BOB BROWN\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Two fugitives, a man and a child, drive all night across a stony desert. As dawn breaks, they roll into an abandoned mine site. From the vehicle they survey a forsaken place - middens of twisted iron, rusty wire, piles of sun-baked trash. They're exhausted, traumatised, desperate now. But as a refuge, this is the most promising place they've seen. The child peers at the field of desolation. The man thinks to himself, \u003ci\u003ethis could work.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Problem is, they're not alone.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e So begins a searing, propulsive journey through a life whose central challenge is not simply a matter of survival, but of how to maintain human decency as everyone around you falls ever further into barbarism.\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e'A barnstorming, coruscating work of fiction, a heavyweight literary novel that sits squarely in the growing canon of \"climate fiction\" and it feels to me to be an instant classic of that genre. I strongly recommend it.' EMILY H WILSON, \u003ci\u003eNEW SCIENTIST \u003c\/i\u003e(UK)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e'\u003ci\u003eJuice\u003c\/i\u003e, Winton has said, means \"human resilience and moral courage\", and there is that in spades in this complex, riveting book already being hailed as a masterpiece.'\u003ci\u003e SYDNEY MORNING HERALD\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'This is page-turning stuff, gripping and awfully gratifying . . . Winton's ending is a masterstroke, the heart-in-your-mouth final chapter one of the best things I've read in a long time.' RACHEL SEIFFERT, \u003ci\u003eGUARDIAN UK\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Exciting . . . ambitious . . . \u003ci\u003eJuice\u003c\/i\u003e breaks new ground to face the climate emergency.' \u003ci\u003eTHE CONVERSATION\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e'Every machine-tooled sentence is its own reward . . . the sheer length of the novel becomes its greatest pleasure. Winton drives \u003ci\u003eJuice\u003c\/i\u003e towards its conclusion with a narrative force that feels almost cyclonic.' GEORDIE WILLIAMSON,\u003ci\u003e THE AUSTRALIAN\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e'Full of surprises and stunning originality.' SIMON SMART, ABC ONLINE\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e'A must-read masterpiece from one of Australia's most celebrated writers.' STEPHEN ROMEI, \u003ci\u003eSATURDAY PAPER\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e'Blistering . . . propulsive, addictive.' JOE RUBBO, READINGS\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 'Electrifying, sobering, grimly compelling . . . \u003ci\u003eJuice \u003c\/i\u003eis an act of hope, a belief in persuasion, in the power of stories.' JULIA BAIRD, ABC ONLINE\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Winton powerfully captures the cumulative damage of combat and betrayal, writing movingly about the way it isolates the protagonist.' JAMES BRADLEY, \u003ci\u003eTHE SPECTATOR\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e'\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eChilling.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e'\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e \u003ci\u003eTHE AGE\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e'\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eSome of the most high-octane thriller writing I've come across.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e'\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e LUKE KENNARD, \u003ci\u003eTHE TELEGRAPH \u003c\/i\u003e(UK)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Thrilling . . . utterly absorbing.' 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