Books from Text Publishing
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The Dinkum Dictionary: The Origins of Australian Words
By Susan ButlerThe advertising line—'It's the drink I have when I'm not having a drink'—was invented by Noel Delbridge, the creative director of D'Arcy, MacManus & Masius, and spoken by Jack Thompson for the soft drink Claytons Tonic.
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From Secret Ballot to Democracy Sausage: How Australia Got Compulsory Voting
By Judith BrettJohn Hall, a founder of the Victorian Farmers' Union, issued Hughes a blunt warning: 'it is with difficulty that organisations such as ours were prevented from running candidates at the last election, when, with three candidates in the ...
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A Little Tea, a Little Chat
By Christina Stead... Garden Joan Phipson Introduced by Margo Lanagan Maurice Guest Henry Handel Richardson Introduced by Carmen Callil The Getting of Wisdom Henry Handel Richardson Introduced by Germaine Greer The Fortunes of Richard Mahony Henry Handel ...
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The Little Hotel
By Christina SteadThis is an excellent place for the Stead novice to begin enjoying her artistry.’ STARRED REVIEW, Kirkus Reviews
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The Puzzleheaded Girl
By Christina SteadShe is widely considered to be one of the most influential Australian authors of the twentieth century. ‘Christina Stead’s talent is vital and powerful; her work has that original streak of genius so evident in the best Australian ...
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The Scarecrow: Text Classics
By Ronald Hugh MorriesonIn this lost masterpiece, first published in 1963, forgotten New Zealand writer Morrieson combines Boys’ Own adventure, psychological thriller, small-town saga and family farce to produce a brilliant, hallucinatory mixture distinctively ...
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Nice Try
By Shane MaloneyCollins Street seemed to think it was the Rue de Montparnasse. Fairy lights twinkled in the trees, horse-drawn carriages plied the tourist trade and the baroque facade of the Old Treasury glowed like a honeyed lie in the middle distance ...
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Stiff: A Murray Whelan Thriller
By Shane MaloneyThe corporate entrance was a marble-clad lobby on Collins Street with imposing brass revolving doors. The government tenants entered via an open vestibule around the corner where a gaggle of furtive smokers clustered around a 64.
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Mannix
By Brenda NiallNiall gives a sense of Mannix’s greatness and of why we can still be awed by him.’ Australian ‘An extraordinary man and an extraordinary book.’ Weekly Times ‘Among living Australian biographers, only Philip Ayres matches Brenda ...
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Convict Tattoos: Marked Men and Women of Australia
By Simon BarnardThomas 78 McCall, John 79 McCarthy, Hannah 70 McCarthy, John 51 McCullen, John 62 MacDonald, Sutherland 10 McDougall, John 10 Mackay, Angus 42, 44–45 Marsh, Alice 66 Martin, William 58 Mason, John 91 masonic symbol (tattoo motif) 78–79, ...
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Benaud: An Appreciation
By Brian MatthewsThe young Benaud who stares so intently from the front cover of this excellent book would be extremely pleased with the result of the efforts of Brian Matthews in producing this fine personal appreciation of him and no doubt would have no ...
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Pulse Points: Stories
By Jennifer DownI thought about Lewis. He'd played a show in a red cave of a bar the night before last. Lewis's is not the kind of music the French will listen to. Trop compliqué, says my friend Guillaume, pushing his lips into a flower.
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An Island: Longlisted for the 2021 Booker Prize
By Karen JenningsA gripping, terrifying and unforgettable story.’ Elleke Boehmer 'An Island concerns itself with lives lived on the margins, through the story of a man who has exiled himself from the known world... a moving, transfixing novel of loss, ...
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Lapse
By Sarah ThorntonHad a car accident. Took to drinking pretty heavy. Lost his business.' She heard him take a drag on a cigarette and the soft pop of his lips releasing the smoke. 'It was a bad one. A bloke called Steve Mason was killed,' he said. Mason.
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How They Met and Other Stories
By David LevithanWhat is love? With this original story collection David Levithan proves that love is a varied, complicated, addictive, wonderful thing.
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The Big Ask
By Shane MaloneyThen, so that I'd have something to report to Ange, I called Jack Butler and mooted a strategic alliance with Save Our Trains. Old Jack had no illusions that he would survive the first round of the exhaustive ballot.
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The Howard Miracle: Interviews From The 7.30 Report
By John ClarkeJOHN HOWARD | 21 What did you tell her? I said I'd brought in a policy people didn't want, without consulting them on the detail. And without having the numbers in the parliament. Is this conversation recorded? Yes. It's all official.
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Tinkering: The Complete Book of John Clarke
By John ClarkeIntroduction by Lorin Clarke This book tells the story of John Clarke’s writing life, including the fan letter he sent to All Black Terry Lineen when he was ten, a golf instruction manual unlike any other, Anna Karenina in forty-three ...
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A Pleasure to Be Here: The Best of Clarke and Dawe
By John ClarkeHis only novel, The Tournament, was published in the UK and the US to great critical acclaim and will be republished in the Text Classics in November. He died in April 2017. ‘A reminder of what a god of a comedian he was.
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Still the Two
By John ClarkeBased on John Clarke and Bryan Dawe's appearances on 'A Current Affair' and 3AW, the book features guest appearances by everyone from John Howard to Alan Bond, from Jeff Kennett to Paul Keating.