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There’s nothing like the buzz of Melbourne during a festival. And yes, while that may be every other week in our city, there is something special about the enthusiasm and energy of the annual Melbourne Writers Festival.
This month we’re excited to be publishing no less than five Randolph Stow novels in the Text Classics series, all with new companion essays.
More great prize news this weekend with the announcement of the 2015 Neddies—the Ned Kelly Awards—Australia’s most prestigious prizes honouring crime fiction and true-crime writing. Special guest of the evening was S. J.
From left: Diana Sweeney, Jane Pearson and Simon Barnard celebrating at Text.
We’re thrilled that two Text titles are in the winners’ circle for the 2015 Children’s Book Council of the Year Awards.
Eka Kurniawan may be a new face in world literature, but his epic novel Beauty Is a Wound would suggest an old pro at work.
It’s Father’s Day on 6 September—what would your dad like, you wonder, that won’t be stashed with the stubby holders and golf calendars of Father’s Days past?
Here’s a thought: get him a book! It’s thoughtful and says many thousands of words, none of which you have to think up
Publicist Léa Antigny recounts the highs and lows of this year’s Byron Bay Writers Festival.
What’s your favourite kind of bookshop?
Do you like them to be expansive and exhaustive, or do you prefer the cramped and cosy? Even if you love your e-reader, there’s nothing quite like a bricks-and-mortar bookshop to explore.
