Great Australian Crime Books

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.

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...

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...

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.

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...