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There’s heaps of buzz around the release of Mark Smith’s exciting debut, The Road to Winter.
Finn is living wild after a virus wiped out his small town. He hunts and fishes and surfs, his dog Rowdy his only companion.
‘Australians need Australian stories.’ W. H. Chong
‘We have been growing a local publishing industry and culture where designers and illustrators can work and support each other.’ Miri Rosenbloom
Alice Lewinsky is part of Text’s dynamic publicity team, working across the list and taking care of our authors at literary events all around the country.
There is an effective consensus across the industry—among booksellers, authors, publishers, literary agents and printers—about the widespread benefits of the current arrangements. These are the people who have worked to transform our industry into one of the most successful publishing territories in the world. The consumer has been the winner. Let’s keep it that way.
In this video Iain Reid talks about his intense, suspenseful debut novel that will have readers’ nerves jangling. A series of tiny clues sprinkled through the relentlessly paced narrative culminate in a haunting twist on the final page.
Text is looking for an Administration Coordinator to join its busy and dynamic team, in an entry-level position suited to someone looking to build a career in publishing.
Watch Mark Smith talk about his exciting debut, The Road to Winter.
‘New Zealand repealed its PIR legislation in 1998. Since that time the New Zealand publishing industry has contracted disastrously.’ Tom Keneally
‘This is a book that should never have to have been written. No sister should ever have to write this book.’ Kristina Olsson is a multi-award winning author of fiction and non-fiction. At Avid Reader earlier this month, she gave a beautiful speech to launch Wasted: A Story of Alcohol, Grief and a Death in Brisbane, the powerful new memoir by Elspeth Muir. Kristina kindly allowed us to publish it here.
The year is 2509 and Earth is a rather polluted blue dot that suffers from global warming, overpopulation and not enough people using deodorant. Blake Carter, star agent with the Planetary Bureau of Investigation, is having a bad day that spirals out of control when the world is held to ransom by his nemesis, evil genius Bartholomew Badde.
