Books from Text Publishing
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Fear Is the Rider
By Kenneth CookFrom the author of the classic novel Wake In Fright comes a chillingly brilliant short novel that’s part Wolf Creek and part Duel. Fear Is the Rider is a nail-biting chase into the outback, towards the devil lurking at its centre.
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The Enchantment of the Long-haired Rat: A Rodent History of Australia
By Tim BonyhadyA young black cat still carried a mark of its recent domesticity, a ribbon around its neck'. These cats soon succumbed to a disease generally believed to have resulted from the cats mixing with the rats'. They died with their heads a ...
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Growing Up in Flames
By Zach JonesThis contemporary YA novel is perfect for fans of Mark Smith and Vikki Wakefield, and tackles grief, belonging and mental illness.
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A Winter's Promise: The Mirror Visitor, Book One
By Christelle DabosThe absorbing first instalment in the bestselling French fantasy series The Mirror Visitor Quartet—winner of the Grand Prix de l’Imaginaire.
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The Brush-Off: A Murray Whelan Thriller: Text Classics
By Shane MaloneyHe lives in Melbourne. ‘The Brush-Off brilliantly mixes the comic and the tragic: this amusing thriller has you laughing at the moments where a gasp may be more appropriate.’ Rolling Stone ‘Maloney is top shelf.’ Australian ‘A ...
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The Brush-Off: Text Classics
By Shane MaloneyIn this instalment, Murray is back to investigate the discovery of a body in the ornamental moat outside the National Gallery • Maloney’s formidable eye and wry humour makes The Brush-Off both a compelling literary thriller and a ...
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The Brush-Off: A Murray Whelan Thriller
By Shane MaloneyMurray Whelan, the hero of Stiff, Shane Maloney's brilliant debut novel, is back at his richly futile best. A romantic comedy and drop-dead thriller, The Brush-Off mixes high art with low blows.
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Nice Try
By Shane Maloney'One of the most outrageously funny voices in modern detective fiction...Shane Maloney's prose is more than a 'nice try' at combining social and political satire with the conventions of the crime novel. It's spot on.' Age
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The Long Shadow
By Anne BuistPsychologist Isabel Harris must figure who has a troubled mind—and who has trouble on their mind—in this new standalone psychological thriller from Anne Buist
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The Patch
By John McPheeThis wide-ranging essay collection serves as a covert memoir of a cult literary figure—New Yorker writer John McPhee.
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Draft No. 4: On the Writing Process
By John McPheeThis book is a vivid depiction of the writing process, from reporting to drafting to revising—and revising and revising. Draft No. 4 is enriched by personal reflections on the life of a writer.
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Coming Rain
By Stephen DaisleyLifted it in the air and tossed it just as its sleek head came around to bite her. The sand goanna tried to flee into the darkening scrub but she sprang on it again and grabbed it behind its racehorse head.
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Isobel on the Way to the Corner Shop: Text Classics
By Amy WittingNow Isobel understood that Katie had been moved from C Ward so that execution could be carried out in reasonable privacy. She was glad to have work on hand to divert her from the thought of Katie's terror, Sister Connor's distress— it ...
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The Quiet Earth: Text Classics
By Craig HarrisonThis new edition of Craig Harrison's highly sought-after 1981 novel, which was later made into a cult film starring Bruno Lawrence, Pete Smith and Alison Routledge, comes with an introduction by Bernard Beckett.
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Diary of a Young Naturalist
By Dara McAnultyAn astonishing, evocative exploration of the natural world and all its wonders, by 15-year-old conservationist and rising literary star Dara McAnulty
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In My Skin: A Memoir
By Kate HoldenA brightness comes into my eyes. And, I’m told, a hard look too. In My Skin describes an extraordinary journey through an often hidden world of heroin and prostitution.
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Two Afternoons in the Kabul Stadium: A History of Afghanistan Through Clothes, Carpets and the Camera
By Tim BonyhadyAn exciting social history of Afghanistan told through art
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Always Another Country: A Memoir of Exile and Home
By Sisonke MsimangIf I were given five minutes with my younger self—that little girl who cried every time we had to leave for another country—I would hold her tight and not say...
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By The Book: A reader's guide to life
By Ramona KovalBy the Book is Ramona Koval's love letter to books and writing, a tribute to the stories that have changed and enriched her life Ramona Koval is one of Australia's best-loved broadcasters, having spent sixteen years presenting 'The Book ...
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Songbird
By Ingrid LagunaA 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.