Return to Angelus for unsettling tales

In his own words, Tim Winton is from the “wrong side of the wrong country" - an accident of birth for which readers everywhere should be grateful.

THE TURNING BY TIM WINTON Picador, €22.85 In his own words, Tim Winton is from the “wrong side of the wrong country" - an accident of birth for which readers everywhere should be grateful.

Apart from his sixth novel,The Riders,Winton's work is unequivocally rooted in the landscape of western Australia, a landscape as mysterious, as confronting and as strangely beautiful as his prose. His latest collection of short stories is set in Angelus ...