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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.
Amber Entertainment has bought film rights to Rebecca Stead’s enthralling novel When You Reach Me, winner of the 2010 Newbery Medal.
After weeks of reading, discussing and reading some more, we have chosen a shortlist of five contenders for the 2010 Text Prize for Young Adult and Children’s Writing.
Don’t forget to subscribe to Text’s monthly enewsletter by 5pm today to win one of fifty copies of The Radleys or fifty copies of The Emerald Casket.
Peter Temple’s compelling novel Truth has won the 2010 Miles Franklin Literary Award.
Peter is the first crime writer to win Australia’s most lauded literary award.
Subscribe to Text’s monthly enewsletter by Friday 25 June to win one of fifty copies of The Radleys or fifty copies of The Emerald Casket.
