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Today, Elsewhere
The Snow Kimono Mark Henshaw $0.00

'Gripping...Like a Japanese puzzle, prized for their infinite solutions and depth of revelation, each chapter builds on the one before, unfolding through levels of story to unpack deeper and deeper truths...

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Game Changer Paul McNamee $0.00

'Good on ya, Macca!': Paul McNamee's Game Changer reviewed in the New York Journal of Books.

‘How I Saved the World’ Writing Competition Winners
The Firebird Mystery $16.99

Nellie Gray, a Year 7 student at Vincentia High School in NSW, is the winner of Text's 'How I Saved the World' writing competition.

Students were tasked with writing an imaginative story of up to 500 words about how they saved the world.

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Pick-up lines for book lovers.

Infinite Lego: David Foster Wallace's magnum opus recreated in plastic bricks.

14 books that change when you reread them later in life.

Infographic: the history of print.

What it was like to go to James Joyce's birthday party.

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What Text Is Giving Dad for Father’s Day

Father's Day isn't far off, so it's time to start thinking about what books Dad might want. Here's what Text staff are taking off the stockroom shelves for their dads. (Fathers of Text staff, avert your eyes now to avoid ruining the surprise.)

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Great press for Helen Garner’s This House of Grief
This House of Grief Helen Garner $23.99

Helen Garner’s This House of Grief, published on Wednesday, has received wonderful notices in the press.

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Helen Garner’s This House of Grief and Graeme Simsion’s The Rosie Effect are both on the New Daily’s list of ‘buzz books’ not to miss in 2014.

No editor has time to look at a novel twice: leading editors offer advice to help writers make the most of their one shot.

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Today, Elsewhere

‘This book is no polemic: it’s a gripping and visceral tale.’ Mark Rubbo, Managing Director of Readings, on Sophie Cunningham’s Warning: The Story of Cyclone Tracy.

How fiction gets the publishing industry laughably wrong.

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Today, Elsewhere

‘For fans of thrillers such as Gone Girl, this should be the summer’s essential reading’: Anita Sethi in the Guardian on Herman Koch’s new novel, Summer House with Swimming Pool.

What writing and running have in common.

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An excellent writer’s retreat, by Grant Snider.

How to read in bars.

Very cool: 1970s German book posters by Gunter Rambow.

Literary references on The Simpsons.

Slang terms for having sex, through history: now in handy chart form!

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