Books from Text Publishing

  • The 7.56 Report
    The 7.56 Report
    By John Clarke

    Here are the interviews with Australia's leading citizens, drawn from John Clarke and Bryan Dawe's weekly broadcasts on ABC TV's 7.30 Report, from 2003 to 2006.

  • Moral Hazard: Text Classics
    Moral Hazard: Text Classics
    By Kate Jennings

    ... He Might Hear You Sumner Locke Elliott Introduced by Robyn Nevin Fairyland Sumner Locke Elliott Introduced by Dennis Altman The Explorers Edited and introduced by Tim Flannery Terra Australis Matthew Flinders Introduced by Tim ...

  • Dark Places: Text Classics
    Dark Places: Text Classics
    By Kate Grenville

    Careful, He Might Hear You Sumner Locke Elliott Introduced by Robyn Nevin Terra Australis Matthew Flinders Introduced by Tim Flannery My Brilliant Career Miles Franklin Introduced by Jennifer Byrne Cosmo Cosmolino Helen Garner ...

  • Moral Hazard: Text Classics
    Moral Hazard: Text Classics
    By Kate Jennings

    Wise, unsentimental and darkly funny, Kate Jennings' Moral Hazard is a crisp accounting of looming meltdowns—financial and personal.

  • A Fence Around the Cuckoo: Text Classics
    A Fence Around the Cuckoo: Text Classics
    By Ruth Park

    Moss was asleep, I thought. In fact she was unconscious. No one had thought we were only a few centimetres from the exhaust. At Glen Afra I managed to fall out of the dickey seat by myself. All I could see in the lamplight was a crowd ...

  • Tooth and Nail: The Story of the Rabbit in Australia
    Tooth and Nail: The Story of the Rabbit in Australia
    By Brian Coman

    38, 40 Cassilis (NSW) 56 Castlemaine (Vic) 14, 15 cat, feral 57, 72, 80–82, 195–199 cat, native 18, 27, 32 Catling, Peter 198 Central Land Council 185, 223–224 Charlotte Waters (NT) 29 China 119, 171 chloropicrin 88–91 cholera, ...

  • Let the Right One In
    Let the Right One In
    By John Ajvide Lindqvist

    Oskar doesn't have many friends.

  • Down in the City: Text Classics
    Down in the City: Text Classics
    By Elizabeth Harrower

    ... Alex McDermott Bring Larks and Heroes Thomas Keneally Introduced by Geordie Williamson Strine Afferbeck Lauder Introduced by John Clarke The Young Desire It Kenneth Mackenzie Introduced by David Malouf Stiff Shane Maloney Introduced ...

  • The Long Prospect: Text Classics
    The Long Prospect: Text Classics
    By Elizabeth Harrower

    ... Introduced by Geordie Williamson Strine Afferbeck Lauder Introduced by John Clarke Stiff Shane Maloney Introduced by Lindsay Tanner The Middle Parts of Fortune Frederic Manning Introduced by Simon Caterson Selected Stories Katherine ...

  • In Certain Circles
    In Certain Circles
    By Elizabeth Harrower

    ' Ramona Koval, Australian 'In Certain Circles is subtle yet wounding, and very much alive.' Guardian Australia 'Reading In Certain Circles gave me the thrill that only comes from the work of a major novelist.

  • Madeleine: A Life of Madeleine St John
    Madeleine: A Life of Madeleine St John
    By Helen Trinca

    In The Times, Helen Dunmore said the novel was a 'moral comedy as well as a social one'. The characters in the book 'grope forwards, propelled by the sense that their lives are not as they might be'. Dunmore praised Madeleine's strength ...

  • Joshua Slocum, Sailing Alone Around the World
    Joshua Slocum, Sailing Alone Around the World
    By Joshua Slocum

    At 7.30 p.m. the Spray, now through the pass, came to anchor in a cove in the mainland, near a pearl fisherman, called the Tarawa, which was at anchor, her captain from the deck of his vessel directing me to a berth.

  • The Catastrophe Continues: Twenty-one Years of Interviews
    The Catastrophe Continues: Twenty-one Years of Interviews
    By John Clarke

    KENNETT. PREMIER. OF. VICTORIA. Mr Kennett, thanks for coming in. Permission to speak? Permission to speak, sir? Watch it. Mr Kennett, these shares you bought... I didn't buy any shares. Your wife bought them. Yes, what about them?

  • Crucifixion Creek: The Belltree Trilogy, Book One
    Crucifixion Creek: The Belltree Trilogy, Book One
    By Barry Maitland

    There is a sharp crack and a searing pain rips the flesh across her back. It takes her breath away. She sucks air into her lungs in panic and there is another crack, another shocking flash of pain, and she begins to scream.

  • Sunlight and Seaweed: An Argument for How to Feed, Power and Clean Up the World
    Sunlight and Seaweed: An Argument for How to Feed, Power and Clean Up the World
    By Tim Flannery

    Flannery’s message in Sunlight and Seaweed is urgent and his spare prose reflects this.’ Newtown Review of Books ‘Flannery has written in easy-to-understand language and he sets out a positive path for this planet’s future.’ ...

  • The Climate Cure: Solving the Climate Emergency in the Era of COVID-19
    The Climate Cure: Solving the Climate Emergency in the Era of COVID-19
    By Tim Flannery

    An urgent and essential call to arms from one of Australia’s most respected climate scientists, Tim Flannery.

  • Here On Earth: An Argument for Hope
    Here On Earth: An Argument for Hope
    By Tim Flannery

    Here on Earth, which draws its points of departure from Darwin and Wallace, Lovelock and Dawkins, is an extraordinary exploration of evolution and sustainability.

  • Life: Selected Writings
    Life: Selected Writings
    By Tim Flannery

    Essays, speeches and collective musings from one of Australia’s greatest minds. From climate change to art, books, and the environment, there is something here for every Flannery fan.

  • The Explorers: Text Classics
    The Explorers: Text Classics
    By Tim Flannery

    Tim was the 2007 Australian of the Year and the Head of the Australian Climate Commission from 2011-13. textpublishing.com.au 'The Explorers traces the face and searches for the heart of this extraordinarily varied continent which we do not ...

  • The Life and Adventures of William Buckley: Text Classics
    The Life and Adventures of William Buckley: Text Classics
    By Tim Flannery, William Buckley

    ‘Flannery has done us a service first by reissuing the story of a fascinating adventure from 200 years ago, and then by setting these events in perspective with his lucid introduction.’ Canberra Times ‘At 2.00 pm on Sunday, 6 July ...