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Congratulations to Carys Davies, Winner of the 2015 Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award

Congratulations to Carys Davies, author of The Travellers and Other Stories, on being awarded the prestigious 2015 Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award for The Redemption of Galen Pike. The Award is the single biggest prize in the world for a collection of short stories.

Vale Tony Taylor

It is with great sadness that we farewell writer Tony Taylor, who died last month.

We’re honoured to have published Tony’s memoir of his experiences on the Cowichan River in Vancouver Island, Fishing the River of Time

History’s People, Margaret MacMillan

What if Hitler had been killed in the trenches in World War I? What if Winston Churchill had been fatally injured when a car knocked him down on New York’s Fifth Avenue in 1931? Or what if Stalin had died during his appendix operation in 1921? Can we really consider the history

Arnold Zable’s The Ancient Mariner
Violin Lessons Arnold Zable $0.00

Earlier this week the Age published a piece by Arnold Zable on the horrors of refugee detention on Manus Island.

Arnold Zable is a passionate advocate for human rights and is the immediate past president of PEN Melbourne.

Text in October—New Books Released Today!

In the spring a young woman’s fancy lightly turns to thoughts of books.

At least it does in Melbourne, where ‘spring weather’ means ‘bring a spare coat and umbrella actually just don’t bother going outside everything is horrible.

Recipes for Love and Murder—Baking with Tannie Maria

The Text marketing team received numerous tip-offs on the quality of the recipes featured at the end of Recipes for Love and Murder, an entertaining new crime novel published this week.

Don’t Miss Magda Szubanski on ABC’s 7.30 Tonight
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Magda Szubanski will appear on ABC’s 7.30 tonight to discuss her brilliant new memoir, Reckoning.

Childhood in Seven Computer Games: An Interview with Michael W. Clune

Michael W. Clune is a professor of English at Case Western Reserve University in Ohio. He is the author of a memoir titled White Out: The Secret Life of Heroin and of two scholarly books, American Literature in the Free Market and Writing Against Time.

Gideon Haigh Introduces Kate Jennings’ Moral Hazard
The Devil Whooping It Up

There is a saying about the British Broadcasting Corporation that it has inspired no great novel because nobody with the talent to write one has stayed long enough to do the necessary research.

Text Is Hiring! (Two Positions)
Finance Assistant, Text Publishing, Melbourne (0.6)

If you know what an invoice is, are an Excel gun and can use MYOB, Text Publishing is looking for you for the part-time role of Finance Assistant.

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