Books from Text Publishing

  • Ladies in Black
    Ladies in Black
    By Madeleine St John

    Previously published as Women in Black now a major film directed by Bruce Beresford and starring Julia Ormond, Angourie Rice, Rachael Taylor, Ryan Corr, Shane Jacobson, Susie Porter, Alison McGirr, Noni Hazlehurst and Vincent Perez.

  • Losing It
    Losing It
    By Moira Burke

    She always brings her tape-recorder it's Rod Stewart today full blast in the girls' toilets. Tina's on the rubbish bin that's been up-ended she's dancing you push her off and get up, you're dancing somebody else pushes you off you get ...

  • Game Changer: My Tennis Life
    Game Changer: My Tennis Life
    By Paul McNamee

    For Wimbledon 1983 i teamed with brian Gottfried of the United States. He'd been a top-ten singles and doubles player, and in our first outing we won my local event, Queen's Club, beating Curren and Denton in the final. in the weeks ...

  • Whispering in the Wind: Text Classics
    Whispering in the Wind: Text Classics
    By Alan Marshall

    Alan Marshall, born in 1902, was an Australian writer, story teller, humanist and social documenter. Marshall received the Australian Literature Society Short Story Award three times. He died in 1984.

  • Muse
    Muse
    By Jonathan Galassi

    For literary acolytes, this novel is not only a guilty pleasure but also an intellectual one.’ Listener ‘A charming rollercoaster of a novel.

  • The Life You Can Save: Acting Now to End World Poverty
    The Life You Can Save: Acting Now to End World Poverty
    By Peter Singer

    The Life You Can Save offers a solution to world poverty. With his trademark clarity, logic and intellectual flair Peter Singer shows us not only that this solution is possible, but also that we have a moral obligation to be part of it.

  • First Dog on the Moon's The Story of the Christmas Story
    First Dog on the Moon's The Story of the Christmas Story
    By Andrew Marlton

    And what happened next. And how it's a story for all of us, that we can all have a part in. This is a gorgeous, funny, gentle-hearted retelling of the most famous story of all that also tells the story of the story itself.

  • The Water Dreamers: The Remarkable History of Our Dry Continent
    The Water Dreamers: The Remarkable History of Our Dry Continent
    By Michael Cathcart

    ... explored the Antarctic with Mawson, been wounded in the Great War and worked as a geologist in the deserts of Sudan. He was not a man who could be accused of defeatism or lacking grit when he scorned proposals to flood Lake Eyre.

  • Snooze: The Lost Art of Sleep
    Snooze: The Lost Art of Sleep
    By Michael McGirr

    He is a high-school teacher and lives in Melbourne with his wife, Jenny, and their three teenage children. ‘Although this book is about insomnia and sleep, it will not send the reader off to sleep... It is a happy book.

  • Dig 3ft NW: The Legendary Journey of Burke and Wills
    Dig 3ft NW: The Legendary Journey of Burke and Wills
    By Sarah Murgatroyd

    Stories of the explorers' stay on the Cooper have been passed down through the generations to Arran Patterson and his family. Arran's great-great-great grandfather Kimi was a young man when the expeditioners arrived at Cooper Creek in ...

  • Unzipped
    Unzipped
    By Nicki Reed

    I took the bins out the other night and from the footpath, with the lights on in the lounge room, Annie Lennox was lit enormous. Peroxide hair, leather jacket, a pixelated billboard-sized televisual blur. I love it.

  • Unmarry Me
    Unmarry Me
    By Nicki Reed

    'Yep, last night was night two without him. It was okay, but you know, it's quiet. He has heavy footsteps and he never closes a door without slamming it. Plus the dining table was always covered in his legal crap, briefs everywhere, ...

  • A Toaster on Mars
    A Toaster on Mars
    By Darrell Pitt

    'But your name isn't Jones and I don't have a vat of bubbling acid,' Badde said, frowning. 'Mind you, it's not a bad idea. ... It was in fact the worst television show she'd ever seen. 'But don't you know a happy hostage is a compliant ...

  • 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.

  • No Place Like Home: Repairing Australia’s Housing Crisis
    No Place Like Home: Repairing Australia’s Housing Crisis
    By Peter Mares

    • There’s no doubt Australia is in the grip of housing crisis, and from hotly contested think pieces and intergenerational mud-slinging, to embattled episodes of Q&A and the much-maligned smashed avocado, it seems everyone has an ...

  • Doing Politics: Writing on Public Life
    Doing Politics: Writing on Public Life
    By Judith Brett

    A brilliant collection of the best essays by award-winning writer Judith Brett, long revered by those in the know as Australia’s brightest and most astute political commentator.

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

    Oskar lives with his mum in a Stockholm highrise.

  • Let the Old Dreams Die
    Let the Old Dreams Die
    By John Ajvide Lindqvist

    Wickedly imaginative, gleefully bloodthirsty, Let the Old Dreams Die features a classic Lindqvist cast of lovers, loners and losers.

  • Harbour
    Harbour
    By John Ajvide Lindqvist

    Harbour is also a heartbreaking study of loss and guilt: a novel whose epic climax pits the infinite force of nature against the implacable love of a father for his child.

  • Wake In Fright: Text Classics
    Wake In Fright: Text Classics
    By Kenneth Cook

    All of this is harrowingly reacorded - the destruction of a young soul fresh to Australia - in Kenneth Cook's remarkable novel.' Thomas Keneally 'A true dark classic of Australian literature.