Summerreading

Highlights from Text Publishing

A scorching new crime novel from the master of rural noir. Constable Paul Hirschhausen runs a one-cop station in a small, dusty South Australian town. It’s been quiet this Christmas. Until a strange, vicious incident sends a ripple of violence through the community. ‘Gold standard.’ Chris Hammer

Shortlisted for the 2019 Booker Prize and the Goldsmiths Prize, Ducks, Newburyport is an unprecedented literary phenomenon—a novel of one sentence over 1,000 pages, in which an Ohio mother navigates the tension and disquiet of contemporary America. ‘Success? Failure? Triumph.’ Guardian

A treasure trove of anecdotes and littleknown facts about the history of buying secondhand. In this elegant hardback Robyn Annear brings her light touch and signature wit to the origins of the op shop as well as ebay, upcycling and how new became normal. ‘Enchanting.’ Age

Helen Garner has kept a diary for almost all her life. Now she’s sharing it with her readers. Yellow Notebook invites readers into Garner’s private world, where she shares her observations, frustrations and joys, spanning about a decade from the late 1970s, just after the publication of Monkey Grip.

A definitive collection of essays, speeches and musings from one of the world’s great thinkers. Life: Selected Writings offers insight into the wondrous complexities of our natural world. ‘A master storyteller.’ Australian Book Review