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Elizabeth Haynes shot to fame upon publication of her debut novel, Into the Darkest Corner, which was Amazon UK’s Best Book of the Year in 2011 and has been published in twelve languages. Her follow-up, Revenge of the Tide, was also well-received. Read more
Some fictional names are filled with semantic clues about the nature of their owners: you know that someone called Gradgrind will not be an advocate of child-centred learning, and that Luke Skywalker will not stay long on Tatooine. What’s in a literary name?
The longlist for the 2012 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award has been announced. Congratulations to Kate Grenville (Sarah Thornhill), Carol Birch (Jamrach’s Menagerie), Elizabeth Haynes (Into the Darkest Corner), S. J. Watson (Before I Go to Sleep) and David Whitehouse (Read more
Gerald Murnane read Diego Marani’s unforgettable New Finnish Grammar, and was moved to write to us with his thoughts. He’s kindly allowed us to post his letter here.
Mon 22 Oct 12
Hello, Rachel
I’m grateful to you and Michael for sending me a copy of Read more
If you build a house and don’t put in at least one of these amazing secret bookshelf passages, you have wasted a beautiful opportunity.
12 famous authors' first author photos.
How to talk like Jane Austen, or, what did you think ‘tittuppy’ meant?
The artist and the critic: Read more
The scandal of the 1962 National Book Awards: a controversy that involved the most powerful man in publishing, a famous journalist eager to take credit and a cub reporter who would go on to become one of the most celebrated writers of our time.
Publisher Michael Heyward, Craig Sherborne, Senior Editor Penny Hueston and Craig’s partner, Janet.
Craig Sherborne has won the Best Writing Prize in the 2012 Melbourne Prize for Literature, announced at BMW Edge last night, for his debut novel, The Amateur Science of Love.
The delayed 2012 NSW Premier’s Literary and History Awards shortlists have finally been announced, and Text is very well represented on them.
Kate Grenville’s Sarah Thornhill has been shortlisted for the Christina Stead Prize for Fiction and Craig Sherborne’s Read more
Our favourite author-who-is-also-a-sitting-US-President has just been elected for another four-year term. Congratulations, Team Obama!
Peter Ubel, author of Critical Decisions : How You and Your Doctor Can Make the Right Medical Choices Together, asks: Read more
