Books from Text Publishing

  • The Mosquito: A Human History of Our Deadliest Predator
    The Mosquito: A Human History of Our Deadliest Predator
    By Timothy C. Winegard

    The surprising true story of how the course of human history was redirected, time and again, by the pesky mosquito.

  • Her Mother's Daughter: A Memoir
    Her Mother's Daughter: A Memoir
    By Nadia Wheatley

    My bet is that this fascinating book will prove to be an award-winner. Highly recommended.’ Courier-Mail ‘[Her] Mother’s Daughter is one of the most devastating examples of gaslighting that I have ever read.

  • The Buried: An Archaeology of the Egyptian Revolution
    The Buried: An Archaeology of the Egyptian Revolution
    By Peter Hessler

    An intimate account of the Arab Spring, and Egypt’s past and present, seen through the eyes of a wide range of Egyptians: political operators, archaeologists and garbage collectors; women, the queer community and migrants.

  • The Songs of a Sentimental Bloke: Text Classics
    The Songs of a Sentimental Bloke: Text Classics
    By C.J. Dennis

    The Songs of a Sentimental Bloke, a comic verse novel, was first published in book form in 1915 and sold more than sixty thousand copies in nine editions within a year.

  • Wilder Country
    Wilder Country
    By Mark Smith

    • From the author of The Road to Winter comes an exciting, action-packed sequel about friendship and loyalty, and how far we would go to protect the ones we love...

  • Faith, Hope and Carnage
    Faith, Hope and Carnage
    By Nick Cave, Seán O'Hagan

    The book examines questions of faith, art, music, freedom, grief and love. It draws candidly on Cave’s life, from his early childhood to the present day, his loves, his work ethic and his dramatic transformation in recent years.

  • Maurice Guest: Text Classics
    Maurice Guest: Text Classics
    By Henry Handel Richardson

    He had discovered a room to let, in the house he lived in, and nothing would satisfy him but that Maurice should come instantly to see it. Laughing at his eagerness, Maurice put forward his reasons for preferring to remain where he was.

  • Serendipity: Ten Romantic Tropes, Transformed
    Serendipity: Ten Romantic Tropes, Transformed
    By Marissa Meyer

    A gorgeous collection of stories inspired by romantic tropes, edited by and including a story from the #1 New York Times-bestselling author Marissa Meyer.

  • Ruby Blues
    Ruby Blues
    By Jessica Rudd

    'i just couldn't cope with all the anger and the bitterness,' she said. 'it's like the Freemasons for defeatists. byo sarcasm. secret password: that's just the way it is.' Why am I the only one screaming? 'i'm like, why don't we aim to ...

  • Beautiful Mess
    Beautiful Mess
    By Claire Christian

    I highly recommend this novel and congratulate Claire on a great debut.’ Lamont Books ‘Claire is such a lovely bubble of positivity.

  • Dirt Circus League
    Dirt Circus League
    By Maree Kimberley

    Take a trip into a dystopian Far North Queensland with this wildly exciting YA novel by Brisbane author Maree Kimberley

  • Paint Your Wife
    Paint Your Wife
    By Lloyd Jones

    His other books include Hand Me Down World, The Book of Fame - which won the Deutz Medal for Fiction at the 2001 Montana New Zealand Book Awards and the Tasmania Pacific Fiction Prize - Here at the End of the World We Learn to Dance and ...

  • Mister Pip: film tie-in
    By Lloyd Jones

    But Matilda is not the only one who believes in Pip. And on an island at war, the power of the imagination can be a dangerously provocative thing. A dazzling achievement, Mister Pip is a love song to the power of storytelling.

  • A Dutiful Daughter: Text Classics
    A Dutiful Daughter: Text Classics
    By Thomas Keneally

    ... Non-fiction Our Republic Homebush Boy: A Memoir Searching for Schindler: A Memoir Australians: Origins to Eureka Australians: Eureka to the Diggers Australians: Flappers to Vietnam A Dutiful Daughter Thomas Keneally Text Publishing ...

  • The Fiftieth Gate: A Journey Through Memory
    The Fiftieth Gate: A Journey Through Memory
    By Mark Raphael Baker

    In writing The Fiftieth Gate, Mark Baker describes a journey from despair and death towards hope and life; it is the story of a son who enters his parents’ memories and, inside the darkness, finds light.

  • True Stories: Selected Non-Fiction
    True Stories: Selected Non-Fiction
    By Helen Garner

    Her non-fiction, with its many voices, is always passionate and compelling. True Stories is an extraordinary book, spanning twenty-five years of work, by one of Australia’s great writers.

  • The Shadow of the Wind
    The Shadow of the Wind
    By Carlos Ruiz Zafón

    Entranced by his chosen book, The Shadow of the Wind, Daniel begins a quest to find the truth about the life and death of its mysterious author.

  • The Shadow of the Wind
    The Shadow of the Wind
    By Carlos Ruiz Zafón

    This edition of Carlos Ruiz Zafon’s much-loved bestseller includes Chapter One of his new literary sensation The Angel’s Game.

  • Honour & Other People’s Children: Text Classics
    Honour & Other People’s Children: Text Classics
    By Helen Garner

    'I dunno,” said Ruth. “Sometimes people need—” 'I don't wanna get married!' 'I didn't mean that!' she cried. 'I never meant married! You know that's not what I meant!' 'Well, he said sullenly. “I don't wanna live with anyone, either.

  • The Lost Book of the Grail
    The Lost Book of the Grail
    By Charlie Lovett

    Not only bibliophiles will be charmed by this thoroughly enjoyable tale.’ BookMooch ‘Merging medievalist erudition, literary sleuthing and romantic comedy, Charlie Lovett’s The Lost Book of the Grail is an entertaining romp the well ...