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Text Publishing is an independent Australian publisher of literary fiction and non-fiction, awarded Australian Book Industry Small Publisher of the Year in 2012, 2013 and 2014. Our authors include Elizabeth Harrower, JM Coetzee, Helen Garner, Peter Temple, Elena Ferrante, Kate Grenville, Tim Flannery, Barack Obama, Anna Funder and many more. We believe every book should change your life if only by a fraction. We hope you’ll find a book on our list that makes the world a different place for you. |
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Pub Date 28 May 2019
Don Tillman and Rosie Jarman are about to face their most important challenge.
Their eleven-year-old son, Hudson, is struggling at school: he’s socially awkward and not fitting in. Don’s spent a lifetime trying to fit in—so who better to teach Hudson the skills he needs?
The Hudson Project will require the help of friends old and new, force Don and Rosie to...
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The Rosie Result
Graeme Simsion
Pub Date 28 May 2019
Don Tillman and Rosie Jarman are about to face their most important challenge.
Their eleven-year-old son, Hudson, is struggling at school: he’s socially awkward and not fitting in. Don’s spent a lifetime trying to fit in—so who better to teach Hudson the skills he needs?
The Hudson Project will require the help of friends old and new, force Don and Rosie to...
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Pub Date 07 May 2019
When Noah Glass is found dead, his adult children must unravel his apparent involvement in an art theft. A layered novel about art, memory and legacy.
Having just returned from a trip to Sicily, the art historian, Noah Glass is discovered floating face down in the swimming pool at his Sydney apartment block. His grieving adult children Martin and Evie must...
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The Death of Noah Glass
Gail Jones
Pub Date 07 May 2019
When Noah Glass is found dead, his adult children must unravel his apparent involvement in an art theft. A layered novel about art, memory and legacy.
Having just returned from a trip to Sicily, the art historian, Noah Glass is discovered floating face down in the swimming pool at his Sydney apartment block. His grieving adult children Martin and Evie must...
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Pub Date 20 Sep 2019
Inga Karlson died in a fire in New York in the 1930s, leaving behind three things: a phenomenally successful first novel, the scorched fragments of a second book - and a literary mystery that has captivated generations of readers. Nearly fifty years later, Brisbane bookseller Caddie Walker is waiting in line to see a Karlson exhibition, featuring the famous...
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The Fragments
Toni Jordan
Pub Date 20 Sep 2019
Inga Karlson died in a fire in New York in the 1930s, leaving behind three things: a phenomenally successful first novel, the scorched fragments of a second book - and a literary mystery that has captivated generations of readers. Nearly fifty years later, Brisbane bookseller Caddie Walker is waiting in line to see a Karlson exhibition, featuring the famous...
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Pub Date 03 Dec 2019
Translated by Penny Hueston
Naor, a young filmmaker, is driving with his mother. He tells her about being in Tel Aviv after a recent evacuation. Everyone else has fled, except for Naor and Yaël, his artist girlfriend, and Saba, his grandfather, who is a writer. The occasional missile explodes nearby. But Saba refuses to leave the place he loves. And Yaël...
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Evacuation
Raphäel Jerusalmy
Pub Date 03 Dec 2019
Translated by Penny Hueston
Naor, a young filmmaker, is driving with his mother. He tells her about being in Tel Aviv after a recent evacuation. Everyone else has fled, except for Naor and Yaël, his artist girlfriend, and Saba, his grandfather, who is a writer. The occasional missile explodes nearby. But Saba refuses to leave the place he loves. And Yaël...
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Pub Date 11 Sep 2018
WINNER, 2018 NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARD GOLDBERG PRIZE FOR DEBUT FICTION
"A remarkable tale of Holocaust survival, love and genealogical sleuthing."—Books + Publishing
"Lyrical, impassioned and culturally rich."—Saturday Paper
"As in Sebald's prose narratives, Presser's novel inhabits and the dynamic region between fiction and non-fiction."—Australian Book...
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The Book of Dirt
Bram Presser
Pub Date 11 Sep 2018
WINNER, 2018 NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARD GOLDBERG PRIZE FOR DEBUT FICTION
"A remarkable tale of Holocaust survival, love and genealogical sleuthing."—Books + Publishing
"Lyrical, impassioned and culturally rich."—Saturday Paper
"As in Sebald's prose narratives, Presser's novel inhabits and the dynamic region between fiction and non-fiction."—Australian Book...
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Pub Date 11 Jun 2019
First published in 1969, this humorous and enchanting Australian fairytale will enthral readers of all ages.
Peter lives in a bush hut with Crooked Mick, the greatest horse rider in all the world. One day Peter decides to go out and find a princess and rescue her from a dragon. With his horse Moonlight he sets out on his quest. Along the way he meets an...
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Whispering in the Wind
Alan Marshall

Pub Date 11 Jun 2019
First published in 1969, this humorous and enchanting Australian fairytale will enthral readers of all ages.
Peter lives in a bush hut with Crooked Mick, the greatest horse rider in all the world. One day Peter decides to go out and find a princess and rescue her from a dragon. With his horse Moonlight he sets out on his quest. Along the way he meets an...
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Translated by Imogen Taylor
Beside Myself is the disturbing and exhilarating story of a family across four generations. At its heart is one woman’s search for her twin brother.
When Anton goes missing and the only clue is a postcard sent from Istanbul, Alissa leaves her life in Berlin to find him. Without her twin, the sharer of her memories and the mirror...
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Beside Myself
Sasha Marianna Salzmann
Translated by Imogen Taylor
Beside Myself is the disturbing and exhilarating story of a family across four generations. At its heart is one woman’s search for her twin brother.
When Anton goes missing and the only clue is a postcard sent from Istanbul, Alissa leaves her life in Berlin to find him. Without her twin, the sharer of her memories and the mirror...
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Don Tillman and Rosie Jarman are back in Australia after a decade in New York, and they’re about to face their most important challenge.
Their son, Hudson, is struggling at school: he’s socially awkward and not fitting in. Don’s spent a lifetime trying to fit in—so who better to teach Hudson the skills he needs?
The Hudson Project will require the help of...
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The Rosie Result
Graeme Simsion
Don Tillman and Rosie Jarman are back in Australia after a decade in New York, and they’re about to face their most important challenge.
Their son, Hudson, is struggling at school: he’s socially awkward and not fitting in. Don’s spent a lifetime trying to fit in—so who better to teach Hudson the skills he needs?
The Hudson Project will require the help of...
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The Unbelievably Scary Thing that Happened in Huggabie Falls
The Huggabie Falls Trilogy, Book Two
by Adam Cece
Pub Date 21 Jun 2019
Kipp Kindle, Tobias Treachery and Cymphany Chan live in Huggabie Falls, the weirdest town on Earth, so weirdness is pretty normal for them. But then unbelievably scary things start to happen. Suddenly everyone is being confronted by their worst fears (giant Brussells sprouts, terrifying teddy bears and huge spiders are just the beginning). But where did all...
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The Unbelievably Scary Thing that Happened in Huggabie Falls
Adam Cece

The Unbelievably Scary Thing that Happened in Huggabie Falls
The Huggabie Falls Trilogy, Book Two
by Adam Cece
Pub Date 21 Jun 2019
Kipp Kindle, Tobias Treachery and Cymphany Chan live in Huggabie Falls, the weirdest town on Earth, so weirdness is pretty normal for them. But then unbelievably scary things start to happen. Suddenly everyone is being confronted by their worst fears (giant Brussells sprouts, terrifying teddy bears and huge spiders are just the beginning). But where did all...
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When a mummified Viking corpse is discovered on Greenland ice sheet, journalist Matthew Cave is sent out to report on the finding. The next day, the mummy has disappeared. The body of the police guard lies on the ice naked and flayed, echoing a gruesome series of unsolved murders from many years earlier. With no faith in the police, the only person Matthew...
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The Girl Without Skin
Mads Peder Nordbo
When a mummified Viking corpse is discovered on Greenland ice sheet, journalist Matthew Cave is sent out to report on the finding. The next day, the mummy has disappeared. The body of the police guard lies on the ice naked and flayed, echoing a gruesome series of unsolved murders from many years earlier. With no faith in the police, the only person Matthew...
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Pub Date 31 Jan 2019
Dr Jeremy Brown, a veteran ER doctor, explores the troubling, terrifying, and complex history of the flu virus, from the surprising origins of the 1918 flu that killed millions, to vexing questions such as: are we prepared for the next epidemic, should you get a flu shot, and how close are we to finding a cure?
While influenza is now often thought of as a...
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Influenza
Dr Jeremy Brown

Pub Date 31 Jan 2019
Dr Jeremy Brown, a veteran ER doctor, explores the troubling, terrifying, and complex history of the flu virus, from the surprising origins of the 1918 flu that killed millions, to vexing questions such as: are we prepared for the next epidemic, should you get a flu shot, and how close are we to finding a cure?
While influenza is now often thought of as a...
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Emcke, a former war correspondent, turns her reporter’s eye to her own experiences, exploring questions about identity, sexuality and love. Emcke draws back the veil on how we experience desire, no matter what our sexual orientation. What if, instead of discovering our sexuality only once, during puberty, we discover it again later—and then again, after...
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How We Desire
Carolin Emcke
Emcke, a former war correspondent, turns her reporter’s eye to her own experiences, exploring questions about identity, sexuality and love. Emcke draws back the veil on how we experience desire, no matter what our sexual orientation. What if, instead of discovering our sexuality only once, during puberty, we discover it again later—and then again, after...
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Introduction by Michael Sala
Two novellas about the deep connections we forge with the people we love, and the pain of breaking those connections.
In Honour, Kathleen and Frank are amicably separated, in contact through shared parenting of their young daughter, Flo. But when Frank finds a new partner and wants a divorce, Kathleen is hurt. And Flo...
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Honour and Other People's Children
Helen Garner
Introduction by Michael Sala
Two novellas about the deep connections we forge with the people we love, and the pain of breaking those connections.
In Honour, Kathleen and Frank are amicably separated, in contact through shared parenting of their young daughter, Flo. But when Frank finds a new partner and wants a divorce, Kathleen is hurt. And Flo...
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‘In Radiant Shimmering Light, @SarahSeleckyWS nails the Perfect-Yourself 35-43 gen in all of its hopeful internet-brand-conscious pyramid-scheming empowering goddessiness. Social satire + cultural insight whipped into a yummy froth! You’ll laugh + shed a tiny precious tear, my petals!'—@MargaretAtwood
‘A funny, tender, gimlet-eyed dive into the cult of...
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Radiant Shimmering Light
Sarah Selecky
‘In Radiant Shimmering Light, @SarahSeleckyWS nails the Perfect-Yourself 35-43 gen in all of its hopeful internet-brand-conscious pyramid-scheming empowering goddessiness. Social satire + cultural insight whipped into a yummy froth! You’ll laugh + shed a tiny precious tear, my petals!'—@MargaretAtwood
‘A funny, tender, gimlet-eyed dive into the cult of...
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The Extremely Weird Thing that Happened in Huggabie Falls
The Huggabie Falls Trilogy, Book One
by Adam Cece
Pub Date 12 Feb 2019
"Wonderfully weird and lots of fun!" —Andy Griffiths, author of theTreehouse books
Kipp Kindle always knew his family were weird. In fact they were probably the weirdest family on Earth. It was just as well they lived in the town of Huggabie Falls, because Huggabie Falls was the weirdest place on Earth. On top of all the usual weird things that happened in...
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The Extremely Weird Thing that Happened in Huggabie Falls
Adam Cece

The Extremely Weird Thing that Happened in Huggabie Falls
The Huggabie Falls Trilogy, Book One
by Adam Cece
Pub Date 12 Feb 2019
"Wonderfully weird and lots of fun!" —Andy Griffiths, author of theTreehouse books
Kipp Kindle always knew his family were weird. In fact they were probably the weirdest family on Earth. It was just as well they lived in the town of Huggabie Falls, because Huggabie Falls was the weirdest place on Earth. On top of all the usual weird things that happened in...
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One minute my wife was there. In a flash she was gone. In the ten months of Kerryn’s dying, I prepared myself for everything except for her death. Now that she is gone, I am desperate to know her as I never knew her.
Kerryn Baker lived for only ten months after her shock cancer diagnosis. Before she died, she told her historian husband to write about...
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Thirty Days
Mark Raphael Baker
One minute my wife was there. In a flash she was gone. In the ten months of Kerryn’s dying, I prepared myself for everything except for her death. Now that she is gone, I am desperate to know her as I never knew her.
Kerryn Baker lived for only ten months after her shock cancer diagnosis. Before she died, she told her historian husband to write about...
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Translated by Penny Hueston
In the near future, a woman is writing in the depths of a forest. She’s cold. Her body is falling apart, as is the world around her. She’s lost the use of one eye; she’s down to one kidney, one lung. Before, in the city, she was a psychotherapist, treating patients who had suffered trauma, in particular a man, “the...
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Our Life in the Forest
Marie Darrieussecq
Translated by Penny Hueston
In the near future, a woman is writing in the depths of a forest. She’s cold. Her body is falling apart, as is the world around her. She’s lost the use of one eye; she’s down to one kidney, one lung. Before, in the city, she was a psychotherapist, treating patients who had suffered trauma, in particular a man, “the...
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"A fast, twisty read for fans of Paula Hawkins and Gillian Flynn." —Booklist on The Trap
"The tables turn and turn again, while the reader's trust in the narrator's credibility is tested to the max." —Sydney Morning Herald on The Trap "Raabe cleverly sets up her story, inserting twists and red herrings so that the reader is kept guessing until the final...
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The Stranger
Melanie Raabe
"A fast, twisty read for fans of Paula Hawkins and Gillian Flynn." —Booklist on The Trap
"The tables turn and turn again, while the reader's trust in the narrator's credibility is tested to the max." —Sydney Morning Herald on The Trap "Raabe cleverly sets up her story, inserting twists and red herrings so that the reader is kept guessing until the final...
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"Shows Dekkers once again to be in possession of a golden pen." —New Scientist
A witty, fascinating look at something we generally prefer not to look too closely at.
We are very discreet. We disappear into a private room, perform the task, flush, wash, and reappear as if nothing happened. Of course, hygiene is necessary—some faecal bacteria, if re-ingested...
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The Story of Shit
Midas Dekkers
"Shows Dekkers once again to be in possession of a golden pen." —New Scientist
A witty, fascinating look at something we generally prefer not to look too closely at.
We are very discreet. We disappear into a private room, perform the task, flush, wash, and reappear as if nothing happened. Of course, hygiene is necessary—some faecal bacteria, if re-ingested...
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Long listed for the 2018 Man Booker International Prize
Taiwan Literary Award, 2015 (Taiwan)
China Times Open
Book Award (Six-time winner, including 2015) (Taiwan)
Eslite Bookseller Award for Author
of the Year, 2015 (Taiwan)
Dream of the Red Chamber Award,
Judge Recommendation 2016 (Hong Kong)
UDN Grand Literary Award, 2016...
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The Stolen Bicycle
Wu Ming-Yi
Long listed for the 2018 Man Booker International Prize
Taiwan Literary Award, 2015 (Taiwan)
China Times Open
Book Award (Six-time winner, including 2015) (Taiwan)
Eslite Bookseller Award for Author
of the Year, 2015 (Taiwan)
Dream of the Red Chamber Award,
Judge Recommendation 2016 (Hong Kong)
UDN Grand Literary Award, 2016...
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Please let us know about your coverage so we can keep you in the loop about upcoming publications. Contact emily.booth@textpublishing.com.au with queries or requests.
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Text Publishing

Text Publishing is an independent Australian publisher of literary fiction and non-fiction, awarded Australian Book Industry Small Publisher of the Year in 2012, 2013 and 2014. Our authors include Elizabeth Harrower, JM Coetzee, Helen Garner, Peter Temple, Elena Ferrante, Kate Grenville, Tim Flannery, Barack Obama, Anna Funder and many more. We believe every book should change your life if only by a fraction. We hope you’ll find a book on our list that makes the world a different place for you.






























































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Please let us know about your coverage so we can keep you in the loop about upcoming publications. Contact emily.booth@textpublishing.com.au with queries or requests.