The Grass Hotel Craig Sherborne by Craig Sherborne 9781922459657, 9781922458353, 1922459658, 192245835X instant download after payment.

Shortlisted for the 2023 Voss Literary Prize

Carry me, son. Do not leave me behind.

Are you listening to me?

Of course you’re listening, you say, & add the F-word. Off you go to cope with a storm. Lucerne armfuls for horses. For cows, rye-spindly hay.

Alone in the paddocks of his grass hotel a man tends to his beloved horses, Sock & Boy. The voice of his mother—accusatory, fragmenting from dementia—haunts his every move, an excoriating reminder of his failures in the world of people.

The Grass Hotel is a story of damage & repair, of familial obligation & the resentments it can cause. It is also about the profound comfort that a connection with animals can offer.

With its extraordinary use of language, Craig Sherborne’s novel is by turns savage & tender, raw & poetic: a small masterpiece.

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Craig Sherborne’s memoir Hoi Polloi was shortlisted for the Queensland & Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards. The follow-up, Muck, won the Queensland Literary Award for Non-fiction. Sherborne’s debut novel, The Amateur Science of Love, won the Best Writing Prize in the 2012 Melbourne Prize for Literature & was shortlisted for the NSW & Victorian Premiers’ Awards. He has also written two volumes of poetry, & his journalism & poetry have appeared in most of Australia’s leading literary journals & anthologies. His two most recent novels are Tree Palace, shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Literary Award, & Off the Record.