Books from Text Publishing
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The Unknown Industrial Prisoner: Text Classics
By David IrelandDon't let me go! Stop me from dying! Keep me with you! And with the sunset and surf and purple hills. And the clear, clear, clear, clear...' It was the last word. The next was to have been 'sky'.
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The Fig Tree
By Arnold ZableMoshe and Mila joined the resistance as the Nazi net tightened. The couple went into hiding. ... In March 1943, Moshe and Mila were betrayed and interned in the Malines transit camp in Belgium. And still they performed.
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The Watch Tower: Text Classics
By Elizabeth Harrower'Haunting and delicate.' Kirkus Reviews 'This is a harrowing novel, relentless in its depiction of marital enslavement, spiritual self-destruction and the exploited condition of women in a masculinist society.
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A Few Days in the Country: And Other Stories
By Elizabeth HarrowerInternationally acclaimed for her five brilliant novels, Elizabeth Harrower is also the author of a small body of short fiction. A Few Days in the Country brings together for the...
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A Few Days in the Country: And Other Stories
By Elizabeth HarrowerThis is the work of an activist in disguise as an entertainer.’ John Freeman, Australian ‘Enchanting.
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The Catherine Wheel: Text Classics
By Elizabeth HarrowerIn 1960 she published The Catherine Wheel, the story of an Australian law student in London, her only novel not set in Sydney. The Watch Tower appeared in 1966.
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The Refuge: Text Classics
By Kenneth Mackenzie... Down in the City Elizabeth Harrower Introduced by Delia Falconer The Long Prospect Elizabeth Harrower Introduced by Fiona McGregor The Catherine Wheel Elizabeth Harrower Introduced by Ramona Koval The Watch Tower Elizabeth Harrower ...
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Tourmaline: Text Classics
By Randolph Stow... Down in the City Elizabeth Harrower Introduced by Delia Falconer The Long Prospect Elizabeth Harrower Introduced by Fiona McGregor The Catherine Wheel Elizabeth Harrower Introduced by Ramona Koval The Watch Tower Elizabeth Harrower ...
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When the Sky Fell Apart
By Caroline LeaAn intriguing depiction of life under nazi occupation, the book explores a time and place rarely covered in fiction.
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The Story of the Lost Child: The Neapolitan Novels, Book Four
By Elena FerranteThe Story of the Lost Child is the long-awaited fourth volume in the Neapolitan novels (My Brilliant Friend, The Story of a New Name, Those Who Leave and Those Who...
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The Lost Daughter
By Elena FerranteLeda is a middle-aged, divorced mother devoted to her work as an English professor. After the departure of her grown-up daughters, she takes a holiday on the Italian coast. But...
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Super Cooperators: Altruism, Evolution and Mathematics (or, why We Need Each Other to Succeed)
By Roger Highfield, Martin NowakWith the editor of New Scientist, Roger Highfield, he explains in this groundbreaking book that cooperation is central to the four-billion-year-old puzzle of life - how molecules in the primordial soup first crossed the watershed that ...
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Revenge of the Tide
By Elizabeth HaynesGENEVIEVE has finally escaped the stressful and dangerous demands of her work–sales executive by day, pole dancer by night–and achieved her dream: to get out of London and start a new life aboard a houseboat in Kent.
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Lecretia's Choice: A Story of Love, Death and the Law
By Matt VickersShe described the cruel choice she faced: take her own life early, while she could, or face the prospect of a lingering death. She described the likely progression of her disease, and how she feared it might rob her of all dignity in ...
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Vengeance is Mine, All Others Pay Cash
By Eka KurniawanThrilling...an engrossing, emotionally rankling speed-read...original and sure-footed.’ Big Issue [UK] Told in short, cinematic bursts, Vengeance Is Mine, All Others Pay Cash is gloriously pulpy. Ajo Kawir, a lower-class Javanese...
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Shooting Star
By Peter TemplePat Carson’s old eyes were on me, looking for something. ‘Man is born unto trouble,’ he said. I said, ‘As the sparks fly upwards.’ Deep lines at the corners of...
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Dog Days: A Year with Olive and Mabel
By Andrew CotterNow with more than 87 million views on YouTube, lockdown superstar Labradors Olive and Mabel are back with a second book about their meteoric year of fame.
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Yarra: The History of Melbourne's Murky River
By Kristin OttoSyme owned three other country riverfront properties in the Yarra Valley at one point: Dalry, Killara (each ... David Mitchell, Dame Nellie Melba's father, owned Dalry, Yering, Killara, Henley Farm and St Hubert's at various times.
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The Book of Whispers
By Kimberley StarrShe has a degree in mediaeval literature, and travelled through Turkey and Israel to research The Book of Whispers. ‘The Book of Whispers combines history, fantasy, romance and the brutality of the Middle Ages in a satisfyingly epic novel ...
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Reckoning: A Memoir
By Magda SzubanskiThis tale of war and suburbia, sexuality and comedy, is likely to be the most popular Australian book of the year.’ Age/Sydney Morning Herald ‘This is an inspiring memoir of a woman who faced her demons, sought treatment for depression ...