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The NSW Premier’s Literary Awards shortlists have been announced today and among the many fine books to be nominated were these from brilliant writers at Text:
Michael Cathcart’s The Water Dreamers has been shortlisted for the Douglas Stewart Prize for Non-fiction.
After eight years, there are now only seven sleeps to go until the release of Beatrice and Virgil, Yann Martel’s follow up to his much-loved, Booker-winning novel, Life of Pi.
We are delighted to be releasing The Dizzee Rascal Story in December this year.
Dizzee Rascal is widely regarded as one of the biggest music stars of the decade.
Robin Boyd’s classic book on Australian architecture and design, The Australian Ugliness, has been re-issued this month to coincide with its 50 year anniversary and has made an immediate impact. It featured strongly in the Read more
It is great to see Peter Temple’s fantastic novel Truth has been longlisted for this year’s Miles Franklin.
Truth is a novel about a man, a family, a city. It is about violence, murder, love, corruption, honour and deceit.
And it is about truth.
This is How, M.J Hyland’s mesmerising portrait of a man whose unease in the world leads to his tragic undoing has been longlisted for the prestigious Orange Prize for Fiction.
The shortlist will be announced on 20 April 2010.
The winner will be announced on 9 June 2010.
Geoff Dyer was one of many Text authors to star at the Adelaide Writers' Week recently. You can see him in conversation with J. M. Coetzee Read more
Sales of the trade paperback of Peter Singer’s The Life You Can Save have contributed just under $10,000 to The Hamlin Fistula Relief and Aid Fund. This fund supports the great work being done at The Addis Ababa Fistula Hospital in Ethiopia, co-founded by Dr Catherine Hamlin AC.
The shortlists for the NZ Post Children’s Book Awards have been announced and we are extremely pleased to see The Beginner’s Guide to Living, Lia Hills' wonderful, philosophical debut novel, is shortlisted in the Young Adult Fiction Category.
‘Lia Hills is a strong new voice.
