Number 3 chiller
An A–Z of unusual words, beautifully illustrated.
Think you’re pretty hardcore? Yeah, well, e e cummings literally invented partying.
Photos of some incredible reading rooms from around the world.
Text’s Design Director W. H. Chong won the 2013 Joyce Thorpe Nicholson Design Hall of Fame Award at last night’s Australian Publishers Association Book Design Awards.
I love writing short stories because they are contained; you can just have that essence of a world, you don’t have to explain everything. An interview with Miles Franklin-shortlisted author Romy Ash about her first novel, Read more
We’re looking for a vocational editor to join our busy and dynamic team.
As an independent publisher of quality fiction and non-fiction we are looking for someone
who possesses exceptional editorial skills and a passion for reading across all genres.
Barry Humphries is set to join Guy Pearce and Marta Dusseldorp in the third Jack Irish telemovie for the ABC, Dead Point.
In praise of brilliant sentences and their preservation.
A bitter writer ‘revenge edits’ the Wikipedia pages of his rivals, Read more
The Emotionary: words that don’t exist for feelings that do.
40 inspiring workspaces of the famously creative. E. B. White, you didn’t want a plant or something? Maybe a poster of a kitten captioned ‘Hang in there’?
The Text Classics edition of Elizabeth Harrower’s brilliant The Watch Tower is now on the shelves in North America. The Daily Beast picked it as a Hot Read, calling it ‘[a] fantastically incisive portrait of domestic cruelty’, and Kirkus interviewed the author.
The shortlist for the 2013 Text Prize has been announced!
Applying neuroscience to the study of literature is fashionable. But is it the best way to read a novel?
The mystery of the epigraph to The Great Gatsby is solved.
From a record 350 entries, four fantastic novels have made it on to the shortlist for the 2013 Text Prize for Young Adult and Children’s Writing.
Competing for the AU$10,000 prize are the following shortlisted books—all by Australian women.
