Catherine Schulz recently stormed home as the Australian Bookseller Association’s 2017 Text Publishing Bookseller of the Year.

Read on to hear all about Catherine and why Fullers Bookshop in Hobart is so lucky to have her...

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The Australian Bookseller Association’s Conference was on last weekend. Text gives you a behind-the-scenes peek at what goes on at this glittering and glorious weekend that celebrates Australian bookselling and publishing.

Read an extract from Nina Riggs’ beautiful and heartbreaking memoir, The Bright Hour.

‘The Bright Hour is a stunning work, a heart-rending meditation on life—not just how to appreciate it while you’re living it, but how to embrace its end, too. It is this year’s When Breath Becomes Air.’ Washington Post

Anaesthesia: The Gift of Oblivion and the Mystery of Consciousness by Kate Cole-Adams delves into the unknowable realm beyond consciousness. Read an extract here.