Text Publishing imprint: 415 books

Revered New Zealand author James McNeish has written the most extraordinary novel of his distinguished career. The Crime of Huey Dunstan combines courtroom drama with psychological mystery in a compelling exploration of justice, the law and humanity. A young man stands in the dock accused of...

I have knocked on flyscreens and said to mothers of kidnapped toddlers, ‘Don’t you feel guilty for leaving your child in the front yard alone?’ I have shamed them to tears for the photographer. I have gatecrashed funerals, linked innocent corpses to local crime syndicates. Or feigned empathy...

It’s 1838 and London is gripped by orchid fever. Charles Darwin’s diary turns up Higgins’s bookshop, closely followed by two ex-bodysnatchers and a peculiar fellow with small teeth. Why do they want the diary? Could it have something to do with the terrifying painting of an orchid it...

A jittery digital whistleblower has only to survive a long-haul plane journey before the full extent of his explosive revelations can take effect. Can he make it? Tony Davis is based in Sydney. His books include The Big Dry (HarperCollins, 2013), a novel shortlisted in the 2014 NSW Premier’s...

It’s compulsory to vote in Australia. We are one of a handful of countries in the world that enforce this rule at election time, and the only English-speaking country that makes its citizens vote. Not only that, we embrace it. We celebrate compulsory voting with barbeques and cake...

Read The Case Against Fragrance and you will never think about fragrance in the same way again. If you have been suffering fragrance in silence, you will know you are not alone.’ Conversation Kate Grenville had always associated perfume with elegance and beauty. Then the headaches started. Like...

Marko surfaces from a drug-induced haze to find himself hidden from the world in a psychiatric ward. He is certain the 'Doctor' means to kill him, and he in turn has vengeful plans of his own. But how is it he came to stop taking his medication? Who can Marko trust and how much time does he...

Part thriller, part love story, August is a compelling novel about will, freedom and what it means to live. Trapped in a car wreck, upside down, bleeding and in pain, Tristan and Grace are staring at death. When dawn breaks they might be seen from the road and rescued, or not. They wait,...

Ruby tells Mark she wants a divorce. It’ll be a fake separation, a protest against marriage inequality. As soon as her sister Peta can marry her girlfriend, BJ, they’ll get married again. ‘Will we still be able to see each other?’ asks Mark. ‘Only in secret,’ Ruby says. And...

‘A thrilling read that will have you on the edge of your seat.’ Buzzfeed Natalie King is back: back from a stay on the psych ward. Her reluctance to live a quiet life has contributed to a severe depressive episode, and now it’s time for a retreat to the country. A borrowed house on the...

I have questions I’ve never asked. Worries I’ve never shared. Thoughts that circle and collide and die screaming because they never make it outside my head. Stuff like that, if you let it go—it’s a survival risk. Sixteen-year-old Nate McKee is doing his best to be invisible. He’s...

A sparkling, sexy read from the author of Addition, Fall Girl is a story about passion and loyalty, deceit and integrity, and the importance of believing in things that don't exist. Meet Ella Canfield, highly qualified evolutionary biologist. Attractive, if a little serious-looking in those...

Bird and Glad agree to marry on the first hot day of summer, but first they must survive the Melbourne winter of 1923. Caffrey poignantly recreates an era with rich and telling detail. This novella originally appeared in Griffith REVIEW 38: The Novella Project.

Second in the Triptych collection: a trio of erotic novellas from the acclaimed author of Affection. Leda's first love brings tenderness, heartbreak and a powerful sexual awakening at the behest of Paul and Rachel - two very different best friends. Transgressive, sardonic, lyrical, comic;...