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This week the Transport Accident Commission launched a month-long campaign to mark the 40-year-anniversary since Victoria became the first jurisdiction in the world to introduce compulsory seat belts.
Thank you to all who entered our newsletter subscriber giveaway for Leanne Hall’s fabulous debut This Is Shyness.
Richard Newsome, the author of The Billionaire Trilogy, has been receiving the rockstar treatment from kids up and down the east coast.
The first instalment in the series, The Billionaire’s Curse, won the inaugural Read more
The Melbourne Writers Festival has just announced this year’s program and it is chock full of people to see and events to attend. Text Publishing has a whopping 28 international and local authors contributing to sessions this year, far too many to list here so visit the Read more
The third annual Crime & Justice Festival begins tonight at Melbourne’s stunning Abbotsford Convent. Brought to you by the wonderful team at Read more
Minister for the Arts Peter Garrett announced the four shortlists for the 2010 Prime Minister’s Literary Awards at Readings Carlton today.
The team at Text would like to extend a huge congratulations to two of our authors whose books made the lists.
Eva Hornung’s fabulous Read more
We were extremely lucky yesterday to be visited by the charismatic James Brabazon, UK author of My Friend the Mercenary. James is in Melbourne to promote his chilling first-hand account of the failed 2004 coup in Equatorial Guinea.
Every book we publish at Text is a work conceived with much love and there is always excitement when copies of a new title arrive in-house.
Congratulations to Jane Higgins, winner of the 2010 Text Prize for Young Adult and Children’s Writing, for her apocalyptic action novel The Bridge.