The Text Publishing Company: 414 books

When Tom Castro declared himself to be Roger, the Tichborne heir, and headed for London to claim his inheritance, not even Roger’s mother could tell them apart. By 1871 he was the most notorious celebrity in Great Britain or Australia. But who was he? And what was his story?

She entered the station, wearing a white leopard-print dress that was short enough to show off her legs. Her hair slid down the back of her neck in a curtain of gold, which shimmered as it passed through the updraught. There was a conspicuous ring on her finger. Her head turned and her eyes almost...

The original pioneers of Silicon Valley dreamed of a better world, but digital disruption has become a threatening catchphrase in recent years. Many of the technologies now at our fingertips are deliberately disruptive, changing industries, economies, politics and institutions, and many facets of...

What is it about crime stories that make people hunger for them? The volume of content produced in these genres – from the pages of mysteries and thrillers to audio and visual dramas and reconstructions – hints at a primal and deeply ingrained fascination with the darker side of human nature....

Shortlisted for the 2018 Stella Prize Shortlisted for the 2017 Aurealis Awards ‘One of the most radical and insightful writers working in Australian letters today…Just read this. You won’t regret it.’ Overland Some time in the near future, university lecturer Caspar receives...

It takes only a moment of distraction to end Jason's life, yet the consequences ripple across Brisbane for years. An arch and moving slice of life, by a critically acclaimed author. This novella originally appeared in Griffith REVIEW 38: The Novella Project.

After a year apart, Maryanne returns to her husband, Roy, bringing their eight-year-old son Daniel and teenage daughter Freya with her. The family move from Sydney to Newcastle, where Roy has bought a derelict house on the coast. As Roy painstakingly patches the holes in the floorboards and plasters...

**‘An affectionate tribute to someone who quietly but firmly shaped her own place in the world.’ Books+**Publishing Brenda Niall has turned her biographer’s eye to a personal subject—her grandmother, Aggie. She tells the story of a fiercely independent and intelligent woman who braved...

In the kingdom of the blind, the one-eyed man is king. Ben and his sidekick, Mikey, work the Target Ball stand in a ramshackle carnival travelling up the east coast. Ben is trying to put his time in the army behind him and make some money. Mikey - AKA Mekong Delta, Fremantle's answer to Fifty...

The war has robbed Tomoko of her brothers and her betrothed, but her ultimate sacrifice is inspired by the enemy she encounters in the forest. Wright tells a tragic Japanese story of love and duty in World War II through the eyes of a spirited teenager. This novella originally appeared in Griffith REVIEW 38: The Novella Project.

Rangoon 1930. Winsome, raised in a convent and newly married to a man she barely knows, is full of anticipation as she travels towards the great metropolis. She does not know that Rangoon, this city cradled in the arms of rivers, is about to be torn apart in the struggle between its ancient...

When he died in 1974 after a long period of self-imposed austerity and improvisation on Bribie Island, Queensland, Ian Fairweather was at the apex of his fame. He had been called ‘our greatest painter’, and his works were keenly sought by galleries, collectors and artists. Born in 1891...

What he had been searching for was not the perfect religious order but the perfect landscape…From that moment on he was a poet in search of his ideal landscape. Lost to the world for more than four decades, A Season on Earth is the essential link between two acknowledged masterpieces by Gerald...

Sometimes you've got to fight
for what you love…The sleepy coastal village of Bimbulla is nestled between rugged mountains and sparkling waters. Each winter, research scientist Digby Stuart waits for the wandering albatross to break its journey en route to the Antarctic, and to continue his studies...