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…and a book you can smoke.
And while their strong voices differ in style, at the core Freedom and the Lorax are the same book: an urgent message about environmental stewardship, delivered by a ubiquitous curmudgeon. A literary guide for the new parent.
The Text Prize is going from strength to strength, as the publisher continues to choose winners that push the boundaries of young adult fiction.
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Text Classics admire the first cherry blossom of the season
Text Classics find a trip to the A-bomb Dome in Hiroshima a sobering experience
Text Classics think this giant Buddha would look nice in the backyard next to the gardenias
Text Classics—more powerful than a bullet
Some more cool and unusual bookshelves. (via @GriffithREVIEW)
The Art of Google Books catalogues some of the beautiful and serendipitous things captured when old books are scanned and digitised.
Amazing embroidered book clutches.
Hauntingly pretty pop-up books by Andreas Johansson.
A German club offers a night of book reading and electro music.
The Hanged Man is suspended, upside-down, by his still-incomplete thesis. Lit scene tarot.
Vikki Wakefield with Federal Arts Minister Simon Crean
Vikki Wakefield’s debut novel, All I Ever Wanted, won the Young Adult category of the 2012 Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature.
Everyone’s a critic.
A bookmark that follows you as you turn the page: for the forgetful reader.
10 of the most powerful women characters in literature. Twitter consensus is that the absence of Jo March from this list is nothing short of a travesty.
Here’s Sales and Marketing Director Kirsty Wilson posing with a beautiful new Text Classics bag, which just arrived in the office.
A skirt made out of books. There’s a total of 20,000 pages here, each folded by hand. Suffer for fashion, indeed.
The greatest books of all time, quantified and ranked, a process that subjective art really calls out for, right?
