Number 3 chiller
Helen Garner’s powerful novel The Spare Room has won the second annual Barbara Jefferis Award.
Beating fellow Text author Toni Jordan, whose debut novel Read more
Text would like to congratulate Maurice Gee on making the shortlist for this year’s NZ Post Book Awards with his gripping Young Adult novel Gool, volume 2 of the Salt Trilogy.
The first book in the trilogy is Salt, which won Best Young Adult Fiction Book in last year’s awards.
The NSW Premier’s Literary Awards celebrates its 30th anniversary this year. Text is very pleased to announce that both Kate Grenville’s The Lieutenant and Helen Garner’s The Spare Room are on the shortlist for the Christina Stead Prize for Fiction.
The Barbara Jefferis Award is a terrific new addition to the Australian literary landscape.
Two gorgeous hardcovers published by Text in 2008 and designed by our star designer Chong Weng Ho have made it to the shortlist for this year’s Book Design Awards: Murray Bail’s
The Pages, and Hamlet, A Novel, by John Marsden. Chong’s jacket for Read more
The Independent Foreign Fiction Prize celebrates an exceptional work of fiction by a living author which has been translated into English from any other language and published in the United Kingdom in the last year.
There’s a new website for Australian booklovers called Australians for Australian Books. It’s at www.ausbooks.com.au, and it is the official site for the campaign to prevent the surrendering of Australian copyright.
The Commonwealth Writers' Prize shortlists have been announced, and we are very pleased indeed to see Helen Garner’s wonderful novel The Spare Room in the running for this prestigious prize.
Peter Singer’s response to global poverty, The Life You Can Save, was all over the weekend papers, and this week Peter sets off on a five-city speaking tour. All Peter’s royalties from the book will be donated to Read more
