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Bernard Beckett’s gripping young adult novel Genesis has been longlisted for the Guardian children’s fiction prize. Published by Quercus Books in the UK, Genesis is the first of the New Zealand author’s novels to be published overseas.
Geoff Dyer’s latest book, Jeff In Venice, Death In Varanasi, was awarded the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse prize for comic fiction, at the Guardian Hay festival last Friday.
It’s on again! After the great success of the inaugural Text Prize for Young Adult and Children’s Writing, which unearthed Richard Newsome’s stunning adventure novel The Billionaire’s Curse, entries are now open for the 2009 Prize.
Text congratulates Murray Bail on making the shortlist for the very prestigious Miles Franklin Literary Award, with his latest novel The Pages. Murray won the 1999 Miles Franklin, and also the Commonwealth Writers' Prize, for his previous novel, Eucalyptus.
We are thrilled to announce that Text Publishing will co-publish the agenda-setting quarterly Griffith REVIEW, one of the most highly respected publications of its kind in Australia.
Entries will open on 4 May for this year’s Text Prize. You can download the
and now, and tell your friends about it, but please wait until 4 May before submitting your manuscript.We are very excited to be preparing for the second annual Text Prize.
Dr. James Orbinski has won the Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing, for his book An Imperfect Offering.
Three books published by Text and our Scottish cousins, Canongate Books, were on the shortlist for this year’s Aye Write Bank of Scotland Prize.
The Fire Gospel, the latest in the International Myths Series, from the author of The Crimson Petal and the White, Michel Faber
Beth Montgomery’s Murderer’s Thumb has been selected for The White Ravens 2009. These 250 outstanding new international books for children and young adults are selected by the Read more
Peter Temple’s kidnap thriller Shooting Star, first published in 1999, and winner of the Ned Kelly Award, has been nominated as one of the 10 best crime novels of 2008 by the WELTKrimi bestenliste.
