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How cold is it right now?
It’s so cold our slush pile is now a slushie!
Yes, we just unabashedly jumped straight into Dad joke territory. And we’re equally unafraid to tell you how great our new July releases are.
Have a look over them, and then for your chance to win one, head to our Facebook page.

The New York Times bestseller AmalUnbound is out this month through Text.
Aisha Saeed, the author of Amal Unbound, is just as fascinating, courageous and compelling as her main character. She is a Pakistani-American writer, teacher and attorney and is one of the founding members of the much talked about ‘We Need Diverse Books’ campaign.

Room to Dream by David Lynch and Kristine McKenna is out and you’re gonna wanna to read it three times, with a hot cup of joe and a slice of cherry pie, and then everything will be fine.
And to whet your palate, we’ve put together ten completely random Did You Knows about Mr David Lynch.

Congratulations to Susan Butler on being awarded an Officer (AO) in the General Division on the Queen’s Birthday 2018 Honours List for distinguished service to the community as a lexicographer and author, as a facilitator of academic discourse on Australian English language, and to commercial publishing.
Susan is the author of the ever-popular The Dinkum Dictionary: The Origins of Australian Words.

Text Publishing is thrilled to announce that Eva Hornung has been shortlisted for the 2018 Miles Franklin Literary Award.
The Last Garden is a powerful literary work about frailty, redemption, and the healing power of animals, from the author of the award-winning Dog Boy.

Text is thrilled to be launching, in partnership with Writing NSW, the Boundless Indigenous Writer’s Mentorship.
Applications open Tuesday 12 June 2018 and close Monday 13 August 2018.

Congratulations to Kate Grenville on being awarded an Officer (AO) in the General Division on the Queen’s Birthday 2018 Honours List!

The Queen’s Birthday Long Weekend is coming to the office of Text. To celebrate, we’ve got a list of some of our Queens of Literature! AKA Celebrating Great Women of Literature at Text!
And a discount for the featured books! Read on for details.

Text’s new June books, amongst other things, give you room to dream, take you travelling through time, make you think about desire and take you on a hunt for peacocks.
Have a look at our new books and for your chance to win one, head to our Facebook page.

Text Publishing is pleased to announce that three Text authors have been longlisted for the 2018 Miles Franklin Literary Award.