It’s July: clear your reading schedules! Throw all the books on your bedside table onto the floor! Delete all the ebooks from your ereader! Run to your bookshop or ebook seller and get all of Text’s July books, pronto!
This month’s books from Text will get you thinking, talking and sharing. What more can you ask for from your reading?
And while you’re online, head over to Text’s Facebook page and tell us in a haiku which one you would like to win and why. Entries close midnight AEST, Sunday 9 July. (Okay, it doesn’t have to be in haiku, but you know, if you really want to, we’re not going to complain about it.)
And now to our glorious books:
Australia Day by Melanie Cheng
This collection of short stories won the 2016 Victorian Premier’s Award for an Unpublished Manuscript. Written with an effortless, unpretentious realism, they show us a version of Australian life richer and more multifaceted than anything we’ve seen before.
Being Here: The Life of Paula Modersohn-Becker by Marie Darrieussecq (translated from the French by Penny Hueston)
An unconventional biography of the German expressionist painter Paula Modersohn-Becker by one of France’s most acclaimed literary talents.
Draw Your Weapons by Sarah Sentilles
Centred on the stories of two men – one a former soldier from Abu Ghraib and one a WWII conscientious objector – this scintillating defence of life lived by peace and principle will transform the way you see the world.
The Fiftieth Gate: A Journey through Memory by Mark Raphael Baker
This stunning twentieth-anniversary edition of Mark Baker’s classic work raises issues that are more relevant today than ever before: the power of trauma in shaping a person’s life, the struggle of the children and grandchildren of Holocaust survivors, and the role of memory and remembrance.
Kingdom Cons by Yuri Herrera (translated from the Spanish by Lisa Dillman)
This latest extraordinary offering from Yuri Herrera, one of Mexico’s greatest writers, is part surreal fable, part crime, part romance and wholly original, questioning the role of the artist in our world, and the cost of integrity.
Me and Mr Booker: Text Classics by Cory Taylor, with an introduction by Benjamin Law
A sharply observed, darkly comic novel about lust, deceit, and the line between adolescence and adulthood. This Text Classics edition features an introduction by Benjamin Law.
Marsh and Me by Martine Murray
A wonderful new middle-grade novel for readers 9–12 years old from CBCA-shortlisted author Martine Murray. A sensitive exploration of friendship and the migrant experience that celebrates the beauty of Serbian culture, music, folklore and language.
And now you know why we’re so thrilled it’s July. It’s a spectacular bunch of books, isn’t it?
Visit our Facebook page and tell us which book you would like (one book per person only).
Competition is open to Australian and New Zealand residents only and entries close midnight AEST, Sunday 9 July. Winners will be notified via Facebook by 10 a.m. Monday 10 July.
