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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
Here at Text we are very proud to be publishing a book you should have heard of, and read, but probably haven’t: The Women in Black, by Madeleine St John.
Madeleine St John was born in Sydney.
Rosemary Neill wrote in the Australian last weekend:
‘This extraordinarily potent crossover novel for adults and older teens looks at racial intolerance through the prism of a dangerous friendship between a black and a white boy. … The sensual, almost overripe prose of Read more