Books from Text Publishing
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Shakespeare’s Library: Unlocking the Greatest Mystery in Literature
By Stuart KellsMillions of words of scholarship have been expended on the world’s most famous author and his work. And yet a critical part of the puzzle, Shakespeare’s library, is a mystery....
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Songwoman
By Ilka TampkeFine-tuned historical research blends seamlessly into this gripping story of a young woman fighting to stop the destruction of her home.’ Jane Rawson, author of From the Wreck ‘Those who root for Game of Thrones’ Daenerys Targaryen ...
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A Good Winter
By Gigi FensterWinner of the 2020 Michael Gifkins Prize, A Good Winter is a simmering literary thriller by a highly accomplished NZ writer
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Waiting for the Barbarians
By J. M. CoetzeeFour modern classics by the great South African writer, J. M. Coetzee, re-released with stylish new covers and accompanied by introductions from some of Australia’s brightest writing talents
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Night Swimming
By Steph BoweSteph Bowe is back. Night Swimming is a love story with a twist, and a whole lot of heart. Imagine being the only two seventeen-year-olds in a small town.
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Troubling Love
By Elena FerranteFollowing her mother’s untimely and mysterious death, Delia embarks on a voyage of discovery through the streets of her native Naples searching for the truth about her family. Reality is...
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Dark Places
By Kate GrenvilleHer early works, which include Lilian's Story, Dark Places and Joan Makes History, have become modern classics and are admired by critics and readers around the world. Her 1992 novel, The Idea of Perfection, was a bestseller and winner ...
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No Mercy: True Stories of Disaster, Survival and Brutality
By Eleanor Learmonth, Jenny Tabakoff' Booktopia Buzz 'Sometimes adversity brings out the best in people, at other times it does the opposite. This is about those other times...excellent reading when you’re safely at home.
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Omar Rising
By Aisha SaeedFrom the internationally bestselling author of Amal Unbound comes a delightful companion novel featuring a new lead character, Omar.
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The Lost Book of the Grail
By Charlie LovettNot 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 ...
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Capital: Melbourne when it was the Capital City of Australia, 1901-27
By Kristin OttoAs quoted in Mr Felton's Bequests: the page itself is in the AnZ group Archives. † At that time a single institution in swanston street: the library acquired illuminated books. The Woman November 1907 governments and leaders rose and ...
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The Case Against Fragrance
By Kate GrenvilleThey’re regulated only by the same people who make and sell them. And the ingredients don’t even have to be named on the label. This book is based on careful research into the science of scent and the power of the fragrance industry.
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Dancing with Strangers
By Inga ClendinnenIn January 1788 the First Fleet arrived in New South Wales and a thousand British men and women, some of them convicts and some of them free, encountered the people who would be their new neighbours—the beach nomads of Australia. ‘These ...
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Out of the Line of Fire: Text Classics
By Mark HenshawA tour de force. This book is imaginative, virtuosic, and awesomely assured. It is compulsive reading.' Don Anderson 'Experimental, extraordinary...Out of the Line of Fire, published in 1988, remains one of my favourite Australian novels.
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Beyond the Ladies Lounge: Australia's Female Publicans
By Clare WrightThe Local: A History of Hotels and the Liquor Industry in the Far Northern Illawarra ofN.S.W. Bulli, NSW: M. R. Roberts, 1992. Robertson, Andrew. Hotels and Hotelkeepers of the Blackwood Goldfields. Melbourne: C. C. Jones and H. M. ...
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The Secret Life of Wombats
By James WoodfordWith his usual brilliance James Woodford explores the wombat's bizarre evolutionary history and perilous future. This is popular science writing at its best: an irresistible subject in the hands of an irrepressible author.
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His Bloody Project
By Graeme Macrae BurnetShortlisted for the 2016 Man Booker Prize The year is 1869. After a brutal triple murder in a remote community in the Scottish Highlands, a young man by the name...
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The Disappearance of Adèle Bedeau
By Graeme Macrae BurnetManfred Baumann is a loner. He has always lived in the nondescript French town of Saint-Louis. Shy and awkward, a man of habit, he spends his days working in the...
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Human Remains
By Elizabeth HaynesHuman Remains, the latest novel from crime-writing sensation Elizabeth Haynes, is a powerful and chilling thriller that preys on our darkest fears, showing how vulnerable we are when we live alone, and how easily ordinary lives can fall ...
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Meet Me in Atlantis: My Obsessive Quest to Find the Sunken City
By Mark AdamsA few years ago, Mark Adams made a strange discovery: everything we know about the famous city of Atlantis comes from the work of Plato.