Coetzee: “The strangest book you are likely to read this year.” Places Like These, Lauren Carter (Book*hug, April)Ī first collection of stories by the novelist and poet whose last book, This Has Nothing to Do With You, won the Margaret Laurence Award for Fiction at the Manitoba Book Awards (where she was also declared the province’s most promising writer). 1881), who went from Australia’s national boxing circuit to a mental asylum in Perth, the novel has amassed some stellar blurbs, including from Helen Garner “meets a need I didn’t know I had” and J.M. A fictionalized account of the life of the Rasputin-like Italian-American boxer Joe Grim (b. Michael Winkler’s novel was a cult sensation in his native Australia, where it was the first self-published book in history to be shortlisted for the country’s most prestigious prize, the Miles Franklin Award (one publisher rejected it as “repellent”). Grimmish, Michael Winkler (Coach House, April)
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