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Lloyd Jones’s Commonwealth Prize-winning novel Mister Pip will be adapted for the screen by Andrew Adamson, director of Shrek and The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe.
The months ahead are crammed with exciting new releases—enlightenment, laughs, thrills and larks. Download a copy of our latest catalogue to see what reading treats Text has in store.
Beth Montgomery’s chilling mystery novel Murderer’s Thumb has been longlisted in the Young Adult category of the annual Davitt Awards. Run by the Sisters in Crime, these awards celebrate crime writing by Australian women. The winners will be announced on 21 August in Melbourne.
Colin Cotterill’s delightfully different crime novels, set in Laos and starring the septugenarian sleuth Siri Paiboun, have been honoured with the UK Crime Writers' Association’s ‘Dagger in the Library’ Award.
The International Impac Dublin Literary Awards are on again. We are very proud to say TWO fine books recently published by Text have been nominated by discerning librarians, somewhere in the English-speaking world.
OUR book industry is lively, diverse and inventive, and it’s growing. It may now be our most successful creative industry. But you won’t learn that from the recent Productivity Commission report.
The John Button Prize was created in memory of the late Industry Minister, Senator and writer, who sadly passed away last year.
Geoff Dyer’s laugh-out-loud genre-buster Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi, will feature on First Tuesday Book Club on ABC TV in September.
…you can visit the SWF website to hear a podcast of the author, in conversation with Ashley Hay. Kate reads from her latest novel The Lieutenant, and talks about research, the writing process and the power of language.
Fans of Carlos Ruiz Zafón’s The Shadow of the Wind have stormed the bookshops in the States to get a hold of the prequel, the absorbing, gothic page-turner, The Angel’s Game. Published simultaneously around the world this month, it has stormed to no.
