An exquisite examination of the contours of grief and contemporary life, from a fresh new Australian-Indian voiceA group of friends moves into a share house in Redfern. They are all on the cusp of thirty and big life changes, navigating insecure...

A marriage gone horribly wrong; a secret female friendship and affair; a murder plot. This precursor to the true crime genre is told by Alfred D blin, one of the giants of 20th century German literature and author of Berlin Alexanderplatz, which was...

Having reached over 40 million views online, Labradors Olive and Mabel are now the centre of a delightful book by sports commentator Andrew Cotter. A treat for dog lovers everywhere, and the perfect antidote to our times.'My name is Andrew Cotter and...

A spellbinding novel of psychological suspense that follows a young archivist's obsession with her subject's mysterious death as it threatens to destroy her fragile grasp on sanity.Journalist Kate Aitken leaves New York for a fresh start in California...

A collection of one hundred illustrated vignettes from the much-loved Kitchen Sink Drama series, as seen in Good Weekend.As seen in Good Weekend- one hundred of Paul Connolly's beloved one-hundred-word vignettes along with Jim Pavlidis's whimsical...

A sweeping intergenerational novel from 2019 Prime Minister's Literary Award winner Gail Jones.Our Shadows tells the story of three generations of family living in Kalgoorlie, where gold was discovered in 1893 by an Irish-born prospector named Paddy...

An exciting new English translation of Israel's #1 bestselling literary novelist Nir Baram.A writer wakes up in a hotel room in an unfamiliar city. His clothes are muddy; he doesn't know how long he's been lying in bed. Yonatan came to participate in a...

Celebrated writer Eula Biss pens a collection of personal essays on capitalism, class and consumerism.A timely and arresting new look at affluence by a consistently surprising writer.'My adult life can be divided into two distinct parts,' Eula Biss...

A road trip with unlikely companions, a girl with a unique way of seeing the world, a great loss and a struggle of identity; Metal Fish, Falling Snow is an Own Voices YA debut that packs a punch.Dylan and her adored French mother dream of one day sailing...

A recently uncovered memoir, this extraordinary tale of murder, mental health institutions, love, desire and oppression in 1950s Sydney is an explosive and utterly unique work.On 29 April 1959, Sandra Willson, a twenty-year-old trainee psychiatric nurse...

From one of Italy's best-selling authors a coming-of-age story set over 48 hours in the streets of Marseille, as a father and son connect for the first time.Antonio is on the cusp of adulthood, trying to work out who to be and what to do. His father,...

The winner of the 2009 European Prize for Literature, this startling and powerful French novel is translated into English for the first time.Ad le and her younger brother Axel grew up in a hamlet in the spectacular mountains of the Ard che region in...

The follow up to the Hunting Game, a chilling new Scandi-crime novel that will have you on the edge of your seat.Two young kids are missing. A police officer has been found dead. Detective Inspector Embla Nystr m must quickly solve the mystery and find...

Longlisted for the 2020 Miles Franklin Literary Award. From the winner of the 2018 Victorian Premier's Literary Award for Fiction, this tender, moving portrait of an improbable friendship and multicultural Australia more broadly, is now available in a...

Continuing Text's re-release of J.M. Coetzee's revered works with stylish new covers, Elizabeth Costello is a modern classic by the great the great Nobel Prize winner accompanied by introduction from one of Australia's foremost writing critics and...

Continuing Text's re-release of J. M. Coetzee's revered works with stylish new covers, Slow Man is a modern classic by the great Nobel Prize winner accompanied by an introduction from editor and critic, Andrew Fuhrmann.If none is left who will pronounce...

A powerful and funny story from a debut Australian writer, for fans of Simone Howell's Girl, Defective and Rainbow Rowell's Fangirl.A funny-serious story about what happens when you stop trying to be the person other people expect you to be and give...

A rich and insightful collection of personal essays about life, death and our connection to the environment from bestselling Australian author Sophie Cunningham now available in a new format edition.How do we take in the beauty of our planet while...

A must-read memoir for fans of Australian literary and art history, written by Picnic at Hanging Rock author Joan Lindsay, joins the Text Classics series.Time Without Clocks is Joan Lindsay's charming and evocative autobiography. It tells the story of...

An unmissable collection of writing on what it means to be a grandmother-edited by literary journalist and writer Helen Elliott.An anthology of essays by twenty-four Australian women, edited by Helen Elliott, about the many aspects of being a grandmother...

A moving tribute to the spirit of survival, Arnold Zable's beloved novel Cafe Scherazade is now a Text Classic.'In Acland Street, St Kilda, there stands a cafe called Scheherazade.' Thus begins Arnold Zable's haunting meditation on displacement, and the...

An urgent and captivating tale of dark magic and small-town corruption from one of the most thrilling and accomplished young Mexican writers.Inspired by a real event of the murder of a woman in rural Mexico, Hurricane Season takes place in a world filled...

An utterly original novel, longlisted for the 2019 Booker Prize in which one woman navigates, through compelling inner monologue, the tension and disquiet of contemporary America.An Ohio mother bakes pies while the world bombards her with radioactivity...

A new collection of mind bending and reality-twisting stories from award-winning and Pushcart Prize nominated author Alexander Weinstein.A wonderfully warm and inventive collection from the award-winning and Pushcart Prize-nominated author of Children of...

A sublime tale of art, power and privilege from a rising star in American literary fiction.A ghostly feminist fable, Amina Cain's Indelicacy is the story of a woman navigating between gender and class roles to empower herself and fulfill her dreams.In 'a...

A hypnotic and absorbing debut novel from an extraordinary new talent-a must-read for fans of Sally Rooney, Jennifer Down, Siri Hustvedt and Andre Aciman (Call Me By Your Name).We arrived on a Tuesday, I can remember that. I can remember Hetty's hand in...

A gripping prequel to Garry Disher's Peace, the must-read Australian rural crime novel of 2019.'Shots fired on Bitter Wash Road . . . ' Hirsch is a whistle-blower. Formerly a promising metropolitan officer, now hated and despised. Exiled to a one-cop...

The addictive, cinematic and binge-worthy thriller, now available in a smaller and competitively priced format.Jamie Brandt was not a bad mother. Later she would tell that to anyone who would listen- police, reporters, lawyers, her parents, her...

Accompanying the release of his new book Life- Selected Writings, this new format of Europe presents one of Tim Flannery's most exciting works of non-fiction.It is hard to overstate just how unusual Europe was towards the end of the age of the dinosaurs...

Graeme Simsion brings to life fictional foodie Don Tillman's 'standardised meal system', as featured in the internationally bestselling Rosie Project and Rosie Effect and the recent Australian #1 bestselling novel, Rosie Result.'So, you cook this same...

A gritty, ultimately triumphant novel from one of Australia's most loved YA writers, the author of award-winning Friday Brown.Sixteen-year-old Nate McKee is doing his best to be invisible. He's worried about a lot of things-how his dad treats Nance and...

A self-portrait by one of Australia's greatest artists, a man mistakenly portrayed as a hermit.When he died in 1974 after a long period of self-imposed austerity and improvisation on Bribie Island, Queensland, Ian Fairweather was at the apex of his fame...

As Text continues the re-release of J. M. Coetzee's major works, this second instalment of four titles - with introductions from top emerging and established writers - will win over a new generation of Coetzee readers.I am falling, I think, I am falling-...

As Text continues the re-release of J. M. Coetzee's revered works, this second instalment of four titles-with introductions from top emerging and established writers-will win over a new generation of Coetzee readers.Today my father brought home his new...

As Text continues the re-release of J. M. Coetzee's revered works, this second instalment of four titles-with introductions from top emerging and established writers-will win over a new generation of Coetzee readers.You must listen. I speak with the...

A debut collection of stories announcing an intelligent, vibrant and highly original Australian-Vietnamese voice in contemporary literature.Fortunes rise and fall. One day you have a lucky ticket and get a dinner so good and you eat so much that you...

From a debut Melbourne writer comes the big-hearted romantic comedy of the year, an addictive and joyful celebration of the awkward teen in all of us. The winner of the 2018 Text Prize, with rights already sold in six territories.When her parents...

Preservation, based on the true story of the wreck of the Sydney Cove, sees master storyteller Jock Serong turn his talents to historical narrative now available in a smaller, competitively priced format.On a beach not far from the isolated settlement of...

The unfinished autobiography of one of the great Australian novelists-Henry Handel Richardson, the pen name of Ethel F. Lindesay Robertson. From the author of The Fortunes of Richard Mahoney and The Getting of Wisdom, comes this lively and revealing...

Small town secrets and divisions come bubbling to the surface in Sarah Thornton's gripping debut crime novel.Former corporate lawyer Clementine Jones is living in self-imposed exile, passing the time by coaching a country-league footy club and trying to...

The sporting memoir of an unlikely pugilist's attempt to take on Australia's amateur boxing circuit.I never thought of myself as the sort of person would enjoy seeing people hit each other, let alone enjoy hitting people myself. And as for getting hit . ...

Four modern classics by the great South African writer, J. M. Coetzee, re-released with stylish new covers and accompanied by introductions from some of Australia's brightest writing talents.There was a cord of tenderness that stretched from him to the...

Compulsive and terrifying adult fiction from renowned Australian author Catherine Jinks.Fourteen-year-old convict Tom Clay lives in a shepherd's hut in the bush, protecting his master's sheep from wild dogs. When a vicious fellow shepherd returns to...

The gripping final instalment of the highly acclaimed Winter trilogy from the winner of the Indie Book Award for Young Adults.Finn and Kas are surviving on the coast-more than surviving- they're enjoying the surf, the summer and being together. And now,...

A heart-racing middle-grade adventure mystery set on the streets of Singapore against the backdrop of World War II, exploring issues of belonging, race and diversity.t's Singapore in 1940, war is just around the corner-but twelve-year-old Lizard doesn't...

An important exploration of a shocking and previously unacknowledged chapter in German history.In 1945, as the army retreated, the German people were surrendered to the enemy with no means of defence. A wave of suicides rolled across the country as...

An essential late novel from one of the foremost novelists of the twentieth century, now a part of the Text Classics series.The last Patrick White novel published in his lifetime, Memoirs of Many in One presents the eccentric, often fantastical...

A unique, tender and heart-warming novel following a young girl's experience as an Iraqi refugee in Melbourne, her desire to belong, and the importance of friendship.Jamila has left her friends, her school and her home in Iraq, and now she has a new home...