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I’ve always thought the best ideas are magnetic. One attracts another, they fit together, or meld into something new, and gradually build. S. J. Watson, author of Before I Go to Sleep, on the ideas behind and genesis of his new novel, Read more
Here's a weekend project: make some DIY quotation-mark bookends.
Take the Harry Potter Sorting Hat quiz! (No cheating to get Gryffindor.)
The illustrated A–Z guide to author wardrobe staples.
Am I a famous writer yet? You can check with this handy infographic.
'I just read this book called On Immunity: An Inoculation,' says Bill Gates. '[It's] so well written, it’s unbelievable.'
'[Biss] advances from all sides, like a chess player, drawing on science, myth, literature,' says the Read more
Read Elizabeth Harrower's short story 'Alice' in the New Yorker—or listen to the author read it herself. You can also read an interview with Elizabeth Harrower by New Yorker fiction editor, Deborah Treisman.
After the success of the inaugural EPIC! Poetry Competition in 2013/14, The Footpath Library is thrilled to announce that it will run the EPIC! Short Story Competition for primary and secondary school students across Australia in 2015.
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Congratulations to Helen Garner and Graeme Simsion whose books are on the 2015 Indie Book Awards shortlists. Click on the books below to order a signed copy.
Later this year Text is publishing a new collection by Elizabeth Harrower, A Few Days in the Country and Other Stories.
For a sneak peek, you can read or listen to one of the stories— 'Alice'— online at the New Yorker, as well as the Read more
This is excellent: 13 words of the year, from other countries and languages.
I would read Hermione Granger and the Goddamn Patriarchy.
The 10 ways your life will change after you publish your first book.
Text Publishing is seeking a highly motivated Production and Design Assistant to deliver print and ebooks and produce marketing materials.
'She has a gift for relating even life's most calamitous events in matter-of-fact prose, and in doing so laying bare their true devastation.' Mary Costello's Academy Street reviewed in the Financial Times.
