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You know when something’s coming up and you keep getting small thrills of excitement because it’s so good and you can’t wait for it to happen?
That’s how we’ve been feeling at Text for months about our October books. (Okay, we feel like that for all of our books, but there’s been just a leetle bit more excitement for this month’s list.)
Take a look and you’ll see why!
Bird Country, the sparkling debut from Claire Aman is out this month through Text. It is a poignant and powerful collection of portraits of ordinary people in rural Australia.
Bird Country launched earlier this month with an insightful speech by Cate Kennedy at Readings in St Kilda, and we thought we’d share it with you as well as a short story from the collection.
Read on...
The Wilders want revenge and things are looking bleak.
Wilder Country by Mark Smith is here and it’s every bit as gripping as The Road to Winter.
We could rant about how exciting, dark and riveting this series is all day. But instead, we’re going to let the author, Mark Smith tell you about it himself.
As well as giving you an extract to read.
The wonderfully talented Claire Christian won the 2016 Text Prize for Young Adult and Children’s Writing with her incredible novel, Beautiful Mess.
We’ve put together a mess of wonderful things to help you understand why this book is so beautiful and so important to read.
Have a look at what we’ve got...
This month, Text published a rather remarkable Polish novel called Flights by Olga Tokarczuk.
Why are we publishing this book? The editor for Flights, Penny Hueston, has put together a short piece on why Text feels so passionate about Olga Tokarczuk and her writing.
Once you’ve read Penny’s piece, read our short extract...
If you thought you loved libraries, you need to meet resident bibliophile Stuart Kells – or read his book at the very least. He’s the antiquarian book nerd to end all antiquarian book nerds, and yes, there is in fact someone out there who loves books and libraries more than you.
Have a peek into The Library with five facts from this delightful and informative book:
Who Loves 2 Read?!
Thursday 14 September is Australian Reading Hour.
Reading is an excellent pastime and we at Text endorse it wholeheartedly.
More than 330 libraries and bookshops have already registered to participate in Australian Reading Hour 2017, and over 100 Australian authors will partake in events in their local communities.
Read on for more details...
If you’ve got a family you’ll know that everyone’s GOT AN OPINION. And in most cases, they’re happy to let you know ALL ABOUT THEM.
So we decided to let them tell us all about their thoughts on Text’s books. Thus, today we kick off our ‘Text Family Members Review Books’ series.
Today’s book review is from the father of our senior publicist, Alice Lewinsky. Mr Stephen Lewinsky read and reviewed one of our latest releases, Basket of Deplorables by Tom Rachman.
We all know it’s Father’s day on Sunday.
We all know we should have already sorted out a present for Dad or that someone special we need to thank for being a decent parental figure.
But we all know we haven’t, don’t we?
Okay, well maybe it’s just us.
But luckily, Text is here, saving Father’s Day for us all, one spectacular book at a time...
Text’s September books are many and marvellous, and they’re finally here.
Make yourself a cuppa, place your phone face-down on the desk, take a nice calming breath and spend a quiet minute or two looking at what we’ve got for you this month...
