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Miles Franklin longlist: Bail, Jordan

The longlist for this year’s prestigious Miles Franklin Literary Award contains two books published by Text last year: Murray Bail’s The Pages, and Toni Jordan’s debut novel, Addition.

Barbara Jefferis Award shortlist: The Spare Room and Addition

The Barbara Jefferis Award is a terrific new addition to the Australian literary landscape.

Book Design Awards - 2009 shortlist

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

Independent Foreign Fiction Prize longlist 2009

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.

Retaining Australian Territorial Copyright – New website

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.

Helen Garner’s The Spare Room on Commonwealth Prize shortlist

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 and Text Publishing putting their money where their mouths are

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

Coming soon - a neglected Australian classic

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.

Bone By Bone a crossover mini-masterpiece

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

Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets

A true-crime classic, Homicide was first published in 1991, and a new Canongate edition is now available in Australia and New Zealand. A few local reviewers have enjoyed it this summer.

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