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We recently republished Patricia Wrightson’s I Own the Racecourse! in the Text Classics series. Kate Constable’s new introduction to this charming tale is reproduced below.
We recently republished Joan Phipson’s The Watcher in the Garden in the Text Classics series. Margo Lanagan’s new introduction to this complex and gripping novel for young adults is reproduced below.
The Watcher in the Garden surprised me.
An A–Z of unusual words, beautifully illustrated.
Think you’re pretty hardcore? Yeah, well, e e cummings literally invented partying.
Photos of some incredible reading rooms from around the world.
Text’s Design Director W. H. Chong won the 2013 Joyce Thorpe Nicholson Design Hall of Fame Award at last night’s Australian Publishers Association Book Design Awards.
I love writing short stories because they are contained; you can just have that essence of a world, you don’t have to explain everything. An interview with Miles Franklin-shortlisted author Romy Ash about her first novel, Read more
We’re looking for a vocational editor to join our busy and dynamic team.
As an independent publisher of quality fiction and non-fiction we are looking for someone
who possesses exceptional editorial skills and a passion for reading across all genres.
Barry Humphries is set to join Guy Pearce and Marta Dusseldorp in the third Jack Irish telemovie for the ABC, Dead Point.
In praise of brilliant sentences and their preservation.
A bitter writer ‘revenge edits’ the Wikipedia pages of his rivals, Read more
The Emotionary: words that don’t exist for feelings that do.
40 inspiring workspaces of the famously creative. E. B. White, you didn’t want a plant or something? Maybe a poster of a kitten captioned ‘Hang in there’?
The Text Classics edition of Elizabeth Harrower’s brilliant The Watch Tower is now on the shelves in North America. The Daily Beast picked it as a Hot Read, calling it ‘[a] fantastically incisive portrait of domestic cruelty’, and Kirkus interviewed the author.
