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Michelle de Kretser
A dazzling, compassionate and deeply moving novel from one of world literature’s rising stars.
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From the twice-winner of the Miles Franklin Award, Scary Monsters is an affecting, profound and darkly funny exploration into racism, misogyny and ageism.
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Michelle de Kretser’s fifth novel is both a delicious satire on the way we live now and a deeply moving examination of the true nature of friendship.
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Randolph Stow
Inspired by a real-life serial killer, this disturbing psychological drama is the final work of one of Australia’s greatest writers.
In this vibrant, rich and personal essay on acclaimed author Shirley Hazzard, Michelle de Kretser offers a masterclass in writing that is powerful and exhilarating
Set in present-day Australia and mid-20th century India, The Lost Dog is a haunting, beautifully written work that brilliantly counterpoints new cityscapes and their inhabitants with the wild, ancient continent…
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A rare, beguiling and brilliant ghost story from the two-time Miles Franklin Award-winning author.
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Three monsters - racism, misogyny and ageism - preside over Michelle de Kretser’s mesmerising and innovative novel.
Picking up her pace, Frances saw a woman in the leaf - hung depths of the garden. She wore a long pink dress and a wide hat, and her skin…
A mystery and a love story, an exploration of art and nature, a meditation on ageing and the passage of time. It offers a contemporary novel which examines the weight…
Michelle De Kretser
Longlisted for the 2022 Miles Franklin Literary Award
A profoundly original exploration of racism, misogyny, and ageism-three monsters that plague the world-this novel from a beloved and prize-winning author is…
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Set at the start of the French Revolution, a woman’s private passion is her search to create a repeat-flowering crimson rose. An American falls in love with her sister and…
In July 1789, the devastation of the French Reign of Terror forever alters the lives of three sisters: the precocious Mathilde, the angelic Claire, and the tall, plainspoken Sophie who…
On Shirley Hazzard is a vibrant and personal tribute in which the Miles Franklin Award-winning novelist Michelle de Kretser offers a masterclass in writing and reading. She celebrates the precision…
A novel of dazzling virtuosity and luminous intelligence that explores our urge to leave home, by a writer previously longlisted for both the Man Booker and Orange prizes whose prose…
W. H. Chong
W. H. Chong has designed books for Text Publishing since its inception, but he has also been making other art all that time. The 300 portraits in this book are…
Set in Australia, France, and Sri Lanka, The Life to Come is about the stories we tell and don’t tell ourselves as individuals, as societies, and as nations. Driven by…
Enormously moving, gorgeously observant of physical detail, and often very funny, this new novel by the author of the Man Booker Prize-longlisted The Lost Dog offers meditations on intimacy, loneliness…
Daphne Du Maurier
A stirring historical drama, with characters based on du Maurier’s own family, set against the events of the French Revolution
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A mesmerising literary novel, Questions of Travel charts two very different lives. Laura travels the world before returning to Sydney, where she works for a publisher of travel guides. Ravi…
