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Today in our new meet-the-team blog series, we want to introduce you to Senior Editor Elizabeth Cowell. Elizabeth joined Text in February 2016. Here she discusses textual lumps and bumps and all things editorial.
Text Publishing is looking for an experienced Publicity Manager to lead its busy, highly effective publicity team.
The delightful Toni Jordan, award-winning author of Nine Days, Fall Girl and Addition, sheds light on the beginnings of her latest razor-sharp comedy about love and marriage—Our, Tiny Useless Hearts—from Anna Karenina to scribbling on the back of a boarding pass in the
It’s time for our giveaway of all the shiny new April books. So, if you missed out earlier in the month, here’s another chance to win a copy of Helen Garner’s delightful new collection.
Congratulations Trent Jamieson, author of the genre-defying Day Boy. Day Boy has won two categories in the 2015 Aurealis Awards—Best Horror Novel and Best Fantasy Novel.
February was a month filled with passionate, determined, sigh-inducing love letters at Text. We published two books about love built on the vanishing art of letter writing: Fever at Dawn by Pétér Gárdos and The Passion of Mademoiselle S., edited by Jean-Yves Berthault.
As if we needed more encouragement to run a love-letter writing contest! So we asked readers to submit a letter to the object of their affections for the chance to win a romantic dinner to the value of $300 at a restaurant of their choice.
Linda Conrads is a bestselling author who has lived as a recluse since witnessing her sister’s murder. When she sees the murderer on television, Linda takes matters into her own hands in the only way she knows how: through literature. The Trap is a captivating, fast-paced debut crime novel that became an international rights sensation in 2015.
Congratulations to Magda Szubanski, whose brilliant memoir, Reckoning, is the winner of the 2016 Indie Book Award for Non-fiction. The Indies are chosen by Australian independent booksellers from the best in Australian writing. Reckoning has also been shortlisted for the Nielsen BookData Booksellers Choice Award.
The Beach at Night is a picture book narrated by a doll named Celina. She is abandoned by the little girl who owns her and endures a terrifying night on the beach. Inspired by The Lost Daughter, this is a bewitching fable, translated by Ann Goldstein, for Elena Ferrante fans of all ages.
On the evening of 4 September 2005, Father’s Day, Robert Farquharson, a separated husband, was driving his three sons home to their mother, Cindy, when his car left the road and plunged into a dam. The boys, aged ten, seven and two, drowned.
