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Three books published by Text and our Scottish cousins, Canongate Books, were on the shortlist for this year’s Aye Write Bank of Scotland Prize.
The Fire Gospel, the latest in the International Myths Series, from the author of The Crimson Petal and the White, Michel Faber
Beth Montgomery’s Murderer’s Thumb has been selected for The White Ravens 2009. These 250 outstanding new international books for children and young adults are selected by the Read more
Peter Temple’s kidnap thriller Shooting Star, first published in 1999, and winner of the Ned Kelly Award, has been nominated as one of the 10 best crime novels of 2008 by the WELTKrimi bestenliste.
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.