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A History of My Brief Body
Author: Billy-Ray Belcourt Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 Dazzling collection of personal essays from internationally acclaimed First Nations Canadian writer Billy-Ray Belcourt, who mines his own personal...
Picnic at Hanging Rock
Author: Joan Lindsay Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 A reinvigoration of the iconic Australian classic that captivated generations of readers, featuring stylish new cover art and a...
Strine
Author: Afferbeck Lauder Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 232 Introduced by John Clarke Do you sign on the dotted lion? Is your tea nature Orpheus rocker? Who is...
Every Time I Find the Meaning of Life, They Change It: Wisdom of the Great Philosophers on How to Live
Author: Daniel Klein Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 A humorous and philosophical trip through life, from the acclaimed author of Travels with Epicurus. As a young college...
The Jerilderie Letter
Author: Ned Kelly Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 128 Introduced by Alex McDermott 'I have been wronged and my mother and four or five men lagged innocent and...
Nine Days
Author: Toni Jordan Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 One family. Nine momentous days. An unforgettable novel of love and folly and heartbreak. It is 1939 and although...
Moral Hazard: Text Classics
Author: Kate Jennings Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 Introduced by Gideon Haigh I disapproved of bankers, on principle. Not that I knew any. Until this job, I...
The Long Prospect
Author: Elizabeth Harrower Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 292 Introduced by Fiona McGregor Sharply observed, bitter and humorous, The Long Prospect is a story of life in an...
The Catherine Wheel
Author: Elizabeth Harrower Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 340 The wind from Siberia as announced by the BBC came down Bayswater Road from the direction of Marble Arch.........
The Watch Tower
Author: Elizabeth Harrower Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 338 Introduced by Joan London Winner, Patrick White Award 1996 Breaking their poses like trees snapping branches, the women urgently...
I Saw A Strange Land
Author: Arthur Groom Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 While living in Central Australia Arthur Groom fell under the spell of our harsh and fascinating country, captivated by...
The Idea of Perfection: Text Classics
Author: Kate Grenville Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 Kate Grenville's Orange-Prize winning novel The Idea of Perfection is the story of the small town of Karakarook, and...
Dark Places: Text Classics
Author: Kate Grenville Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 Introduced by Louise Adler Shortlisted, Miles Franklin Literary Award 1995 Winner, Victorian Premier's Literary Award 1995 This is Albion...
Everywhere I Look
Author: Helen Garner Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 Everywhere I Look is a collection of essays, diary entries and true stories spanning more than fifteen years of...
This House Of Grief
Author: Helen Garner Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 310 Anyone can see the place where the children died. You take the Princes Highway past Geelong, and keep going...
Monkey Grip
Author: Helen Garner Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 Helen Garner's gritty, lyrical first novel divided the critics on its publication in 1977. Today, Monkey Grip is regarded...
The Children's Bach
Author: Helen Garner Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 A captivating and deeply personal novel from one of Australia's most respected authors, now available in a smaller and...
Aunts Up The Cross
Author: Robin Dalton Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 142 My great Aunt Juliet was knocked over and killed by a bus when she was eighty-five. The bus was...
They're A Weird Mob
Author: Nino Culotta Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 Introduced by Jacinta Tynan Who the hell's Nino Culotta. That's what you asked yourself when you first picked up...
Wake In Fright
Author: Kenneth Cook Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 Introduced byPeter Temple The controller stood back. 'Right,' he said. 'Spin 'em!' The man flipped the piece of wood...
Slow Man
Author: J. M. Coetzee Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 Continuing Text's re-release of J. M. Coetzee's revered works with stylish new covers, Slow Man is a modern...
Life & Times of Michael K
Author: J. M. Coetzee Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 Four modern classics by the great South African writer, J. M. Coetzee, re-released with stylish new covers and...
The Childhood of Jesus
Author: J. M. Coetzee Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 The Childhood of Jesus is not like any other novel you have read. This beautiful and surprising fable...
Summertime
Author: J. M. Coetzee Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 Continuing Text's re-release of J. M. Coetzee's revered works with stylish new covers, Summertime is a modern classic...
Foe
Author: J. M. Coetzee Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 As Text continues the re-release of J. M. Coetzee's major works, this second instalment of four titles -...
All The Green Year
Author: Don Charlwood Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 286 Introduced by Michael McGirr 'The year I remember best from those days is 1929. This was the year I...
The Cardboard Crown
Author: Martin Boyd Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 266 Introduced by Brenda Niall This remarkable novel, first published to a chorus of acclaim in 1952, is one of...
A Difficult Young Man
Author: Martin Boyd Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 338 Introduced by Sonya Hartnett Winner, Australian Literature Society Gold Medal in 1956 Nearly everyone between the ages of eighteen...
Outbreak Of Love
Author: Martin Boyd Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 322 Our minds are like those maps at the entrance to the Metro stations in Paris. They are full of...
When Blackbirds Sing
Author: Martin Boyd Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 228 At the outbreak of World War I, Dominic Langton leaves his wife on a remote sheep farm in New...
The Fiftieth Gate: A Journey Through Memory
Author: Mark Raphael Baker Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 The 20th anniversary edition of a seminal post-Holocaust work. What right did I possess, as a child of...
The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating
Author: Elisabeth Tova Bailey Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 In a work that beautifully demonstrates the rewards of closely observing nature, Elisabeth Tova Bailey shares an inspiring...
The Penelopiad: The Myth of Penelope & Odysseus: Text Myth Series
Author: Margaret Atwood Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 The series that began in October with Karen Armstrong's compelling A Short History of Myth continues, with electrifying new...
Flames
Author: Robbie Arnott Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 The highly praised debut from Tasmanian author Robbie Arnott, now in a beautiful B-format edition. Released ahead of Arnott's...
How To Practise: The Way to a Meaningful Life
Author: Dalai Lama Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 The classic inspirational work on how to live a meaningful life from His Holiness the Dalai Lama. 'The Dalai...
Metahuman: Unleashing your infinite potential
Author: Dr Deepak Chopra Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 Understanding higher consciousness and why it matters, from the New York Times bestselling author of You Are The...
Ageless Body, Timeless Mind: Classic Editions
Author: Dr Deepak Chopra Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 The worldwide bestseller that reveals the alternative to growing old and the key to lasting health. 'The poet-prophet...
The Practice of Not Thinking: A Guide to Mindful Living
Author: Ryunosuke Koike Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 144 Bestselling author and Zen priest Ryunosuke Koike teaches us how to reconnect with our five senses and move towards...
The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism
Author: Naomi Klein Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 576 'Impassioned, hugely informative, wonderfully controversial, and scary as hell' John le Carre Around the world in Britain, the United...
To Hell and Back: Europe, 1914-1949
Author: Ian Kershaw Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 624 To Hell and Backtells this story with humanity, flair and originality. Kershaw gives a compelling narrative of events, but...
Roller-Coaster: Europe, 1950-2017
Author: Ian Kershaw Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 704 The definitive history of a divided Europe, from the aftermath of the Second World War to the present. After...
Losing Eden: Why Our Minds Need the Wild
Author: Lucy Jones Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 An urgent, comprehensive inquiry into how nature enriches the human psyche - and of the startling risks we face...
The Italians
Author: John Hooper Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 A deeply knowledgeable and enjoyable account of what makes the Italians tick Sublime and maddening, fascinating yet baffling, Italy...
Japan Story: In Search of a Nation, 1850 to the Present
Author: Christopher Harding Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 528 A magical cultural history of modern Japan. Japan Story is a fascinating, surprising account of Japan's culture, from the...
Gandhi 1914-1948: The Years That Changed the World
Author: Ramachandra Guha Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 1152 The magnificent biography of Gandhi by India's leading historian Gandhi lived one of the great 20th century lives. He...
A History of Judaism
Author: Martin Goodman Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 656 'A definitive study' (Financial Times) of Judaism, from its origins to the present Judaism is by some distance the...
Head Hand Heart: The Struggle for Dignity and Status in the 21st Century
Author: David Goodhart Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 A profound investigation into the deeper reason for our political alienation The coronavirus pandemic taught us something we ought...
Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World
Author: Anand Giridharadas Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 'Hugely enjoyable. . . A spirited examination of the hypocrisy of the super-rich who claim they are helping the...