Books from Text Publishing

  • Meet Me in Atlantis: My Obsessive Quest to Find the Sunken City
    Meet Me in Atlantis: My Obsessive Quest to Find the Sunken City
    By Mark Adams

    A few years ago, Mark Adams made a strange discovery: everything we know about the famous city of Atlantis comes from the work of Plato.

  • The Stolen Bicycle
    The Stolen Bicycle
    By Wu Ming-Yi

    Long-listed for the Man Booker International Prize 2018, The Stolen Bicycle is now available in a more compact paperback edition.

  • Grounded: How soil shapes the games we play, the lives we make and the graves we lie in
    Grounded: How soil shapes the games we play, the lives we make and the graves we lie in
    By Alisa Bryce

    An Aussie scientist digs up some dirt about the history and science of soil

  • The Dig Tree: The Story of Burke and Wills
    The Dig Tree: The Story of Burke and Wills
    By Sarah Murgatroyd

    The expedition had become an astonishing tragedy. Sarah Murgatroyd reveals new historical and scientific evidence to tell the story of the disaster with all its heroism and romance, its discoveries, coincidences and lost opportunities.

  • Below the Edge of Darkness: A Memoir of Exploring Light and Life in the Deep Sea
    Below the Edge of Darkness: A Memoir of Exploring Light and Life in the Deep Sea
    By Edith Widder

    An exhilarating underwater exploration for readers wanting to recapture their sense of wonder

  • How to End a Story: Diaries: 1995–1998
    How to End a Story: Diaries: 1995–1998
    By Helen Garner

    The third instalment of diaries from the inimitable Helen Garner covers four eventful years in the life of one of Australia’s most treasured writers.

  • Social Queue
    Social Queue
    By Kay Kerr

    A funny and insightful novel about an autistic teen who realises she's been missing all the signs when it comes to her romantic life.

  • The Jerilderie Letter: Text Classics
    The Jerilderie Letter: Text Classics
    By Ned Kelly

    But who was he? Kelly’s extraordinary achievement is to have provided his own answer to that question. The Jerilderie Letter is his remarkable manifesto and a startling record of his voice.

  • Flames
    Flames
    By Robbie Arnott

    He lives in Hobart. ‘Ambitious storytelling from a stunning new Australian voice. Flames is constantly surprising—I never knew where the story would take me next. This book has a lovely sense of wonder for the world.

  • The President of Good & Evil: The Ethics of George W. Bush
    The President of Good & Evil: The Ethics of George W. Bush
    By Peter Singer

    President George W. Bush is the 'President of Good and Evil' - the man who, more than any other United States president in living memory, talks constantly about ethics, about...

  • Bypass: The Story of a Road
    Bypass: The Story of a Road
    By Michael McGirr

    ... A.B. ' Banjo ' Paterson , Singer of the Bush Complete Works 1885–1900 ( ed . R. Campbell and P. Harvie ) ( Lansdowne Press , 1983 ) ; A.B. ' Banjo ' Paterson , Song of the Pen - Complete Works 1885–1900 ( eds R. Campbell 311.

  • Cursed
    Cursed
    By Marissa Meyer

    In 2021 Meyer published Gilded, the first novel of her two-part retelling of the fairy tale Rumpelstiltskin. And in 2022 she was a contributor to and editor of the collection of romance stories Serendipity.

  • Look at Me
    Look at Me
    By Mareike Krügel

    Kilian gives me another push—Heinz strokes my arm. Costas is right at the back of ... I jump up and down to make myself seen above the crowd, but he doesn't notice me—and why should he? ... The dancers stop dancing and look about them.

  • Cafe Scheherazade
    Cafe Scheherazade
    By Arnold Zable

    Yossel too made the journey from Vilna to the east as a Sugihara Jew. But he and Zalman travelled separately. Except for their meetings in Wolfke's they lived very different lives. They had not known each other in Warsaw where they grew ...

  • Blueberries
    Blueberries
    By Ellena Savage

    A stimulating combination of memoir, essay, poetry, confession and critique, Blueberries is a powerful and revealing collection from a rising star in Australian creative non-fiction.

  • Ballad for a Mad Girl
    Ballad for a Mad Girl
    By Vikki Wakefield

    This is a caring and keening novel, creepy but tender and wholly marvellous.’ ALPHA Reader ‘Talented author Vikki Wakefield produced another gripping novel for YA readers.

  • Amal Unbound: A Novel
    Amal Unbound: A Novel
    By Aisha Saeed

    Life is quiet and ordinary in Amal's Pakistani village, but she had no complaints, and besides, she's busy pursuing her dream of becoming a teacher one day. Her dreams are...

  • The Idea of Perfection: Text Classics
    The Idea of Perfection: Text Classics
    By Kate Grenville

    Kate Grenville's Orange-Prize winning novel The Idea of Perfection is the story of the small town of Karakarook, and of Douglas Cheeseman and Harley Savage—two people who seem the least likely in the world to fall in love.

  • A Room Made of Leaves
    A Room Made of Leaves
    By Kate Grenville

    The first new novel in almost ten years from award-winning, best-selling author Kate Grenville.

  • Sold Down the River: How Robber Barons and Wall Street Traders Cornered Australia’s Water Market
    Sold Down the River: How Robber Barons and Wall Street Traders Cornered Australia’s Water Market
    By Scott Hamilton, Stuart Kells

    Two insiders expose the shocking and shameful betrayal of Australia’s regional heartland so international bankers and traders could make a quick buck.