Tara Calaby explodes onto the historical-fiction scene with House of Longing, a lush, dark queer romance set in 1890s Melbourne. Amy Suiter Clarke returns with a new psychological thriller that explores power, religion and small-town secrets. Where I Slept is a beautiful and harrowing work of auto-fiction about living rough on Melbourne’s streets. 

Portraits, by Text’s very own design director W. H. Chong, is a love letter to our culture makers and includes more than three hundred drawings from his sketchbooks. Gerald Murnane shares his selection of favourite poems by Lesbia Harford for the Text Classics series. And for middle-graders, A Giant’s Trek is an endearing quest novel about a small giant with big dreams.