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US author Rebecca Stead has won the highly coveted Newbery Medal for her second novel When You Reach Me, which we are thrilled to be publishing in Australia and New Zealand next month.
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The first literary festival of 2010 is just around the corner: it’s almost time for the third annual Writers at the Convent. This year’s festival boasts another great lineup of writers from home and abroad. [missing asset], and hop onto the festival website to book tickets.
Hello and happy new year to all. It is all systems go here at Text. We are rested and refreshed after the festive season, and ready to get stuck into making some great books for you.
Have a flip through our catalogue for January to June to see what we have in store for you.
Channel 7 will be screening the HBO TV series The Pacific in 2010. Executive-produced by Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks, who previously teamed for the 2001 HBO miniseries Band of Brothers, the series is three years in the making and follows the stories of three U.S.
A few weeks ago we were very excited to sign the debut novel by talented up-and-coming local author Steph Bowe. Well, now we can tell you—with further excitement, and a big congratulations to Steph—that her agent Ginger Clark from Curtis Brown (US) has sold Spanish rights to Read more
The Economist has listed its best books of the year. They join the New Yorker in picking Read more
This being 2009, we are being treated to ‘Best of’ lists which cover all of the noughties (Technically, the end of next year could be considered the end of the decade, but we had this discussion for the End of the Millennium so let’s not go into it again.
