Stephen McGrath

About The Author

Stephen McGrath won the prestigious The Age Short Story Award, he was also runner up in the same competition.  He has won several other National story awards.  He grew up in New Zealand before moving to Melbourne where he lives with his wife and 2 children.  In 2005 at the Mitchell Library NSW he found a photograph in Jimmy Sharman’s personal collection that suggested Jimmy Sharman did not enlist in the First World War and continued to tour his Boxing Troupe.  After 15 years of research and writing Jimmy Sharman’s Boxers is his first Novel.  

Books by Stephen McGrath

Jimmy Sharman's Boxers

Australia's legendary travelling boxing troupe

By Stephen McGrath
Jimmy Sharman is a conundrum. Raised in a large poor catholic family, becoming a tent boxer at age eleven. He blinds another boxer and is racked by guilt for the rest of his life yet develops an extremely profitable and popular showground fixture. We learn about Sharman’s boxing tent spruiking...
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