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CRIME newsletter competition

Thank you to everyone who entered our newsletter giveaway to win advance reading copies of Crime by Ferdinand von Schirach. Crime is an international bestselling collection of stories based on the author’s experiences as a leading defence lawyer.

James McNeish knighted in New Year’s Honours

For acclaimed author James McNeish, 2011 has begun in a most outstanding, and surprising, way. James admitted to being Read more

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year

Thank you to everyone for their support of Text Publishing in 2010. We will be taking a short break over the festive period to recharge the batteries and gear up for a huge 2011.

2010 in Review—Michael Heyward on The Book Show

Last Friday, Text publisher Michael Heyward joined Ramona Koval on ABC Radio National’s The Book Show to discuss the big events, books and trends of 2010.

Give the gift of laughter

Looking for last minute gifts? You’ll find something for everyone’s taste in this collection of beautifully illustrated humorous titles.

There are collections from two of today’s most irreverent cartoonists in Simon’s Cat: Beyond the Fence and Read more

A wrap of awards for the year—and some great gift ideas

With the year winding down, it is a great time to look back on all the fantastic books and authors that have won awards this year. They represent a truly diverse range of books and we warmly congratulate all the authors on their successes.

A toast to ADDITION film rights

In August we were very excited to announce that film rights to Toni Jordan’s Addition had been sold. The rights have been acquired by Cristina Pozzan of Buon Giorno Productions and Bruna Papandrea.

Text titles among the best books of 2010

We’re proud to report that Peter Temple’s Miles Franklin Literary Award-winning Truth has been listed among the best books of 2010 in four UK newspapers: the Telegraph, Guardian, Independent and Metro. The Guardian also cited Lloyd Jones’s Read more

A class set of THE UNIDENTIFIED won at VATE

This week saw the jubilee conference for the Victorian Association for the Teaching of English. Text went along to gain invaluable face-to-face time with teachers, and also ran a competition to give away a class set of The Unidentified by Rae Mariz.

Signed HAND ME DOWN WORLD hardcovers

What better Christmas present could you give the literature lover in your family, than a signed first edition hardback from a Booker-shortlisted author?

While Lloyd Jones was in Australia ten days ago he signed a small number of first edition hardbacks of his brilliant new novel

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