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In Every Time I Find the Meaning of Life, They Change It, philosopher Daniel Klein looks back at a notebook of quotes he collected in his younger days.
When Elizabeth Harrower’s The Watch Tower came ‘roaring out of forty years in obscurity’, as Helen Garner put it in the Australian’s 2012 round-up of best books, we didn’t know that we’d go on to republish all of Elizabeth’s work.
Congratulations to Carys Davies, author of The Travellers and Other Stories, on being awarded the prestigious 2015 Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award for The Redemption of Galen Pike. The Award is the single biggest prize in the world for a collection of short stories.
It is with great sadness that we farewell writer Tony Taylor, who died last month.
We’re honoured to have published Tony’s memoir of his experiences on the Cowichan River in Vancouver Island, Fishing the River of Time.
Earlier this week the Age published a piece by Arnold Zable on the horrors of refugee detention on Manus Island.
Arnold Zable is a passionate advocate for human rights and is the immediate past president of PEN Melbourne.
In the spring a young woman’s fancy lightly turns to thoughts of books.
At least it does in Melbourne, where ‘spring weather’ means ‘bring a spare coat and umbrella actually just don’t bother going outside everything is horrible.
The Text marketing team received numerous tip-offs on the quality of the recipes featured at the end of Recipes for Love and Murder, an entertaining new crime novel published this week.
