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The Text Publishing Company acknowledges the Traditional Owners of the country on which we work, the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin Nation, and pays respect to their Elders past and present.

Text Publishing is an independent, Melbourne-based publisher of literary and commercial fiction and non-fiction. Text has been awarded the ABIA Small Publisher of the Year three times and won the Leading Edge Books Small Publisher of the Year in 2018 and 2019.

At Text we want to publish books that make a difference to people’s lives. We believe that reading should be a marvellous experience, that every book you read should somehow change your life if only by a fraction. We love the phrase ‘lost in a book’—that’s where we want our readers to be. You can’t get lost in a newspaper or a magazine or even a movie. But people get lost in books every day—on the tram, on the beach, in bed. Reading is what keeps the imagination supple and challenges preconceptions and prejudices. You read at your own speed, and the world you enter courtesy of the writer is yours and yours only, even if the person next to you on the bus is reading exactly the same book.

We are committed to providing first-class services to the writers who trust us with their books. If we are to fulfil our promises to readers, our job is to do everything in our power to help our writers write the best books they can. We care passionately about the quality of our editorial work. Design and production matter to us because we want our books to be beautiful objects. And since we want our beautiful books to be read on trains and beaches, in beds and planes, or under the desk at school and work, we work up a sweat to promote and market them. And that includes selling rights on behalf of our writers to publishers all around the world. In fact we earn more money for our writers through licensing international editions than we do by turning their books into bestsellers in Australia and New Zealand.

We publish a very broad range of fiction and non-fiction, international and local, books for adults and young adults. We are capable of falling in love with any book, and many of our authors have led us into fascinating territory we would never otherwise have discovered. Lots of our books are award-winners around the world. If you are a writer or an agent and would like to send us your manuscript we would love to consider it. If you are a reader we hope that somewhere on our list you will find the book that makes the world a different place for you.

Happy reading!

MICHAEL HEYWARD, PUBLISHER    

New Releases
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    The Wedding Forecast

    Nina Kenwood
    The Best Witch in Paris

    The Best Witch in Paris

    Lauren Crozier
    The Degenerates

    The Degenerates

    Raeden Richardson
    Paris in Ruins

    Paris in Ruins

    Sebastian Smee
    The Empusium

    The Empusium

    Olga Tokarczuk
    The Glass Horse of Venice

    The Glass Horse of Venice

    Arnold Zable and Anita Lester

   

TEXT BOARD

Chong Weng Ho
design director at Text Publishing

Marcus Fazio
principal consultant at Informed Enterprises

Michael Heyward
publisher at Text Publishing

Penny Hueston
senior editor at Text Publishing

Maureen Wheeler
co-founder of Lonely Planet

Tony Wheeler
co-founder of Lonely Planet

 

TEXT TEAM

Publisher  Michael Heyward

Design & Production  Chong Weng Ho, Imogen Stubbs, Zara Olifent

Digital  Darren Nash

Editorial  Mandy Brett, Jane Pearson, Penny Hueston, Zoe Padgham

Export  Nikki Boltz

Finance  Fiona Soutar

Publicity  Emily Booth, Maddy Corbel, Cora Roberts

Rights  Anne Beilby

Sales & Marketing  Jessica Hearnes, Fruzsina Gal


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