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Geoff Dyer was one of many Text authors to star at the Adelaide Writers' Week recently. You can see him in conversation with J. M. Coetzee Read more
Sales of the trade paperback of Peter Singer’s The Life You Can Save have contributed just under $10,000 to The Hamlin Fistula Relief and Aid Fund. This fund supports the great work being done at The Addis Ababa Fistula Hospital in Ethiopia, co-founded by Dr Catherine Hamlin AC.
The shortlists for the NZ Post Children’s Book Awards have been announced and we are extremely pleased to see The Beginner’s Guide to Living, Lia Hills' wonderful, philosophical debut novel, is shortlisted in the Young Adult Fiction Category.
‘Lia Hills is a strong new voice.
John Ajvide Lindqvist’s Harbour, the third of his books to be translated into English, has been bought by Quercus in the UK. Both Text and Quercus are excited about publishing this new book in October, ahead of the release of the US film adaptation of Read more
The good folks of Dublin City Library have published the complete list of eligbile titles for this year’s Impac Dublin Literary Award.
We are thrilled to see that a number of excellent novels published by Text and Read more
Thanks to all who emailed us and signed up for our upcoming quarterly updates on Text’s young adult and children’s list.
‘How did we fail to give this gripping, funny, desperately sad, great New Zealand novel, set “on the edge of the world”, its due when it was first published in 1968?…Not until last year when l was urged to read it again did l fully understand what a masterpiece Ballantyne had
The Commonwealth Writers' Prize shortlists for our region (South East Asia and Pacific) were announced earlier today, and we are extremely excited that The Ice Age, the superb debut by Brisbane-based Kirsten Reed, is in the running for Best First Book.
In January we published a new edition of The Dig Tree, the perennial classic of Australian exploration by Sarah Murgatroyd. Sarah was a talented journalist and author from England, who came to Australia and fell in love with the place.
Peter Temple’s international bestseller The Broken Shore, winner of the 2007 Duncan Lawrie Dagger, has been named in the top ten crime novels of the last decade by The Times.
If you haven’t read this dark, blistering novel yet, you are in for a treat.
