Mark Smith’s The Road to Winter was plucked from the slush pile to become a YA bestseller. Sequels Wilder Country and Land of Fences followed to establish the Winter trilogy as must-read Australian dystopian fiction. We spoke to Mark about his road to becoming a bestselling author.
After the Charleston church shootings in June 2015, journalist David Remnick, musician John Legend and others started talking about a powerful new book about the black experience in America: Ta-Nehisi Coates’s Between the World and Me.
In 2018 Book One, A Winter’s Promise, captivated fans across Europe and was described by The Bookseller UK as ‘highly original and intricately imagined’. It also went on to win the Grand Prix de l’Imaginaire. Since then, the series has gone from strength to strength...
Ever wondered what it takes to run the best small publisher in Australia? Meet our Publisher, Michael Heyward, who shares his passion for the bookish life and his hopes for the industry in Australia.
Finn is living wild after a virus wiped out his small town. He hunts and fishes and surfs, his dog Rowdy his only companion. Until a girl staggers onto the beach and brings with her a whole world of trouble.
In This House of Grief, Helen Garner tells the story of a man and his broken life. She presents the theatre of the courtroom with its actors and audience – all gathered to witness to the truth – players in the extraordinary and unpredictable drama of the quest for justice.
Michael Heyward, publisher at Text, interviewed Karen Jennings, the Booker-longlisted author of An Island.
The farming country in the mid-north of South Australia is where Garry Disher grew up, and although he hasn’t lived there for years, the area still holds a special place in his heart...
Penguin Random House Australia and The Text Publishing Company today announced that they have signed an agreement under which Text Publishing will join Penguin Random House, the world’s largest trade publishing house. The acquisition includes all of Text Publishing.
Garry Disher is one of Australia's most respected crime writers. If you’ve heard the buzz around the three-time Ned Kelly Award-winner, but you’re not sure where to start, we hear you and we’re here to help.
After sixteen years and many wonderful stories, we regret to bring you the news that the Text Prize has been discontinued.
A selection of Text's great Australian Crime novels by such legends as Peter Temple, Garry Disher, Vikki Wakefield and Catherine Jinks.
Text receives dozens of submissions every week, and we can’t provide editorial feedback on all of them – but we can share some of the common reasons manuscripts are turned down. So let's talk about rejections...
Andrew Paterson, author of Rainfish and winner of 2020 Text Prize for Young Adult and Children’s...
Carys Davies’s The Mission House boldly and imaginatively interrogates the fractures between fai...
Elizabeth Harrower died on Tuesday 7 July 2020 at the great age of ninety-two. Elizabeth thought...
Every writer needs a trusted confidant, a first reader, someone who can look at their work and g...
What makes the perfect beach read? Thrillers? Sagas? Romance? Trashy page-turners? Worthy award-...
Australian fiction lost a titan when Peter Temple passed away in March of last year. The winner ...
Like many literary events, the Melbourne Writers Festival can be a daunting space to find your w...
Father’s Day is Sunday 1 September – which means you’ve got even less time to get your gifts org...
The Art of Taxidermy by Sharon Kernot is a moving and beautifully lyrical YA verse novel. It was...
Jack Iverson took up cricket in 1946, at 31, walking into a cricket club just to have a go. Four...
This month, Text published a rather remarkable Polish novel called Flights by Olga Tokarczuk. Wh...
In May 2012, Text Publishing set out to reintroduce Australia to its forgotten literary history....
In 2015 Nina Riggs was diagnosed with terminal breast cancer. She was thirty-eight years old, ma...
Your faithful Texters are not only overjoyed to add three more works by Amy Witting to its Text ...
Inga Clendinnen, 1934–2016 Inga Clendinnen was a brilliant historian and an extraordinary write...
These three novels—The Notebook, The Proof and The Lie—tell the story of twin boys, Claus and Lu...
In Every Time I Find the Meaning of Life, They Change It, philosopher Daniel Klein looks back at...
When Elizabeth Harrower’s The Watch Tower came ‘roaring out of forty years in obscurity’, as Hel...
Eka Kurniawan may be a new face in world literature, but his epic novel Beauty Is a Wound would ...
I first encountered James Aldridge’s books in the Kangaroo Flat Library when I was a braces-wear...
Elizabeth Haynes shot to fame upon publication of her debut novel, Into the Darkest Corner, whi...
You can’t understand Australian publishing without knowing about Diana Gribble. She came to publ...
Go the F**k to Sleep - read by Noni Hazlehurst from Text Publishing on Vimeo. Noni Hazlehurst ...
