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Lucy Sussex is an award-winning author and in her latest book, Blockbuster! Fergus Hume and The Mystery of a Hansom Cab, she delves into the background of one of Text’s most beloved Classics.
It’s wonderful to be publishing a new book by Rod Jones, whose first novel, Julia Paradise, we published as a Text Classic in 2013.
It’s the winter solstice this Sunday, when we experience the shortest day and longest night of the year. As the dark and cold grips the imagination, snuggle up and hunker down with one of these wintery reads.
Silent Shock exposes the devastating truth about the prescription of Thalidomide in Australia, but at its core is the story of a deeply loving family and the sacrifices they have made to care for each other.
The baby started to come out.
Don’t miss the first episode of The Secret River screening on ABC1 this Sunday. The two-part miniseries is adapted from Read more
‘Slush pile’ is an evocative term, don’t you think?
An affectionate industry term for the wealth of unsolicited manuscripts sent to publishers and agents, ‘slush pile’ might bring to mind a mountainous accumulation of paper with not nearly enough paperclips to keep it in check—
Congratulations to Sophie Cunningham and Helen Garner, who have both been shortlisted for the 2015 Kibble Literary Award.
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Publicist Stephanie Speight spent a rewarding couple of days at the 2015 Reading Matters Conference with Text authors Laurie Halse Anderson and Clare Wright.
On the first day of Reading Matters there were tears, laughter, shock, awe and some extremely delicious brownies.
