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Text Publishing
Text Publishing is an independent Australian publisher of fiction and non-fiction, based in Melbourne, Victoria (Australia), Victoria. Company background Text Media was founded in Melbourne in 1990 by Diana Gribble and Eric Beecher, along with designer Chong Weng Ho and others, with a small book publishing division known as Text Publishing. Michael Heyward joined in 1992, and the small publishing house became independent in 1994. When Text Media was taken over by Fairfax Media in 2004, Michael Heyward and his wife Penny Hueston entered into a joint venture with Scottish publisher Canongate. Maureen and Tony Wheeler, founders of Lonely Planet, bought Canongate's share in Text in 2011, making it a wholly Australian-owned company. In 2012, Text launched a series of Australian classics, republishing out of print works that had been, for the most part, lost to literary history. People As of August 2022, Heyward was the publisher. Awards Text awards The Text Prize for Young A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Diana Gribble
Diana Mary Gribble (13 April 19424 October 2011) was an Australian publisher, book editor and businessperson. A feminist, Gribble was one of the most influential figures in the Australian publishing scene and wider cultural life between 1975 and 2010. Biography Gribble was born in Melbourne, the daughter of Sir Archibald Glenn and Betty Balderstone. Educated at Fintona Girls' School, she began studying architecture at the University of Melbourne, where she met Hilary McPhee. In 1975 McPhee and Gribble co-founded McPhee Gribble, an Australian publishing house that was the first publisher of numerous well-known Australian authors including Glen Tomasetti, Helen Garner, Tim Winton, Murray Bail, Kaz Cooke, Peter Cundall, Rod Jones (author), Rod Jones, Jean McCaughey, Rodney Hall (writer), Rodney Hall, Kathy Lette, Gabrielle Carey and Drusilla Modjeska. In 1989, McPhee Gribble was sold to Penguin Books. In 1990, she partnered with Eric Beecher and together they launched Text Publi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Secret River
''The Secret River'' is a 2005 historical novel by Kate Grenville about an early 19th-century Englishman transported to Australia for theft. The story explores what might have happened when Europeans colonised land already inhabited by Aboriginal people.Kate Grenville: Secret River, Secret Past Channel 9 Sunday Art Profile The book has been compared to 's '''' and to [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Publishing Companies Of Australia
Publishing is the activity of making information, literature, music, software and other content available to the public for sale or for free. Traditionally, the term refers to the creation and distribution of printed works, such as books, newspapers, and magazines. With the advent of digital information systems, the scope has expanded to include electronic publishing such as ebooks, academic journals, micropublishing, websites, blogs, video game publishing, and the like. Publishing may produce private, club, commons or public goods and may be conducted as a commercial, public, social or community activity. The commercial publishing industry ranges from large multinational conglomerates such as Bertelsmann, RELX, Pearson and Thomson Reuters to thousands of small independents. It has various divisions such as trade/retail publishing of fiction and non-fiction, educational publishing (k-12) and academic and scientific publishing. Publishing is also undertaken by governments, civi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Graeme Simsion
Graeme C. Simsion (born 1956) is an Australian author, screenwriter, playwright and data modeller. Prior to becoming an author, Simsion was an information systems consultant, co-authoring the book ''Data Modelling Essentials,'' and worked in wine distribution. Literary career Don Tillman novels In 2012 Simsion won the Victorian Premier's Unpublished Manuscript Award for his book ''The Rosie Project''. The novel was published by Text Publishing to critical acclaim in Australia in January 2014. It has since sold more than three and a half million copies in over forty countries around the world. Simsion initially wrote ''The Rosie Project'' as a screenplay, which has since been optioned to Sony Pictures Entertainment. A sequel titled ''The Rosie Effect'', was published on 24 September 2014. The third and final book, '' The Rosie Result'', was published in February 2019. Other novels Simsion's third novel, ''The Best of Adam Sharp'' was published by Text Publishing in 2016. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Rosie Project
''The Rosie Project'' is a 2013 Australian novel by Australian novelist Graeme Simsion. The novel centres on genetics professor Don Tillman, who struggles to have a serious relationship with women. With a friend's help, he devises a questionnaire to assess the suitability of female partners. His plans are set off course when he meets Rosie, who does not fit many of Tillman's criteria, but becomes a big part of his life. The work was first published on 30 January 2013 in Australia by Text Publishing and the rights have since been sold in over 40 other countries. International sales are in excess of 3.5 million copies and the book was named Book of the Year for 2014 by the Australian Book Industry Association. In the United States the novel was published through Simon & Schuster and in the United Kingdom through Penguin Books. A sequel, titled ''The Rosie Effect'', was released in 2014, followed in 2019 by the third and final book in the trilogy, '' The Rosie Result''. Synopsis D ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Temple
Peter Temple (10 March 1946 – 8 March 2018) was an Australian crime fiction writer, mainly known for his ''Jack Irish'' novel series. He won several awards for his writing, including the Gold Dagger in 2007, the first for an Australian. He was also an international magazine and newspaper journalist and editor. Life Peter Temple was born in South Africa in 1946 of Dutch and British/Irish ancestry. He grew up in a small town near South Africa’s border with Botswana. While English was spoken in the family home, he lived in a largely Afrikaans-speaking district and his early schooling was in both English and Afrikaans. At the age of 15 he was sent to school in East London, an area of stronger British heritage. After school, Temple served a year of national service in the army, stationed at Cape Town. Following that year of service he commenced a cadetship with the major afternoon daily in Cape Town, the ''Cape Argus'', a prominent voice of opposition against the dominant ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Inga Clendinnen
Inga Clendinnen, (; 17 August 1934 – 8 September 2016) was an Australian author, historian, anthropologist, and academic. Her work focused on social history, and the history of cultural encounters. She was an authority on Aztec civilisation and pre-Columbian ritual human sacrifice. She also wrote about the Holocaust, and on first contacts between Indigenous Australians and white explorers. At her death, she was an Emeritus Scholar at La Trobe University, Melbourne. Early life and education Clendinnen was born in Geelong, Victoria, in 1934. She was the youngest of four children. Her father owned a cabinet-making business and later became a Geelong City Councillor; her mother was a homemaker. Clendinnen graduated from the University of Melbourne in 1955 with a Bachelor of Arts with Honours, followed by a Master of Arts in 1975. Career Clendinnen's work focused on social history, and the history of cultural encounters. She was considered an authority on Aztec civilisation and pr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dancing With Strangers
''Dancing with Strangers'' is the ninth studio album by British singer-songwriter Chris Rea, released in 1987. It became Rea's first major success in the UK, peaking at No. 2 behind Michael Jackson's ''Bad'', and spent 46 weeks in the charts before going platinum. The album entered the Top 10 in six other European countries, and topped the chart in New Zealand. " Let's Dance" was released as the first single and peaked at No. 12 in the UK, and climbed to No. 2 in New Zealand. It was followed by "Loving You Again", " Joys of Christmas" and "Que Sera". The album features renowned Irish piper Davy Spillane. Production Rea had put a multi-track recording desk in his garage, and "made the whole album with three microphones. Nobody heard it, nobody witnessed it", he said. "It was just me having fun." It was "the first time Rea had demoed and partly recorded the album at home", which "gave him more control and helped cement his vision". Despite the lead single's success, subsequent s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tim Flannery
Timothy Fridtjof Flannery (born 28 January 1956) is an Australian mammalogist, palaeontologist, environmentalist, Conservation biology, conservationist, Exploration, explorer, author, Science communication, science communicator, activist and public scientist. He was awarded Australian of the Year in 2007 for his work and advocacy on environmental issues. Flannery grew up in Sandringham, Victoria, Sandringham, and studied English at La Trobe University in 1977. He then switched disciplines to pursue paleontology. As a researcher, Flannery had roles at several universities and museums in Australia, specialising in fossil Marsupial, marsupials and Evolution of mammals, mammal evolution. He made notable contributions to the palaeontology of Australia and New Guinea during the 1980s, including reviewing the evolution and fossil records of Phalangeridae and Macropodidae. While mammal curator at the Australian Museum, he undertook a survey of the mammals of Melanesia, where he identif ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Weather Makers
''The Weather Makers: The History and Future Impact of Climate Change'' is a 2005 book by Australian scientist Tim Flannery. It discusses climate change, its scientific basis and effects, and potential solutions. The book received critical acclaim. It won the major prize at the 2006 New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards, and was short-listed for the 2010 Jan Michalski Prize for Literature. Flannery reflected in 2015 on its impact, after it was read by several high-profile decision makers. Description The book includes 36 short essays predicting the consequences of global warming and has been translated into over twenty languages. The book reviews evidence of historical climate change and attempts to compare this with the current era. The book argues that if atmospheric carbon dioxide levels continue to increase at current rates, the resulting climate change will cause mass species extinctions. The book also asserts that global temperatures have already risen enough to c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anna Funder
Anna Funder (born 1966) is an Australian author. She is the author of '' Stasiland'' and '' All That I Am'' and the novella ''The Girl With the Dogs''. Life Funder went to primary school in Melbourne and Paris; she attended Star of the Sea College and graduated as Dux in 1983. She studied at the University of Melbourne and the Freie Universität of Berlin, and holds a BA (Hons) and LLB (Hons). She also has an MA from the University of Melbourne and a Doctor of Creative Arts from the University of Technology Sydney. Funder worked for the Australian Government as an international lawyer in human rights, constitutional law and treaty negotiation, before turning to writing full-time in the late 1990s. Anna Funder's writing has received numerous accolades and awards. Her essays, feature articles and columns have appeared in numerous publications, such as ''The Guardian'', ''The Sunday Times'', ''The Sydney Morning Herald'', ''Best Australian Essays'' and ''The Monthly''. She has t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stasiland
''Stasiland'' by Anna Funder is a book first published in Australia by Text Publishing in 2002 about individuals who resisted the East German regime, and others who worked for its secret police, the Stasi. It tells the story of what it was like to work for the Stasi, and describes how those who did so now come to terms, or do not, with their pasts. Funder, an Australian, found that Germans often resorted to stereotypes in describing the Ossis, the German nickname for those who lived in East Germany, dismissing questions about civil resistance. She used classified ads to reach former members of the Stasi and anti-Stasi organizations and interviewed them extensively. __TOC__ Reception Chris Mitchell of ''Spike Magazine'' called it "an essential insight into the totalitarian regime". Giles MacDonogh wrote in ''The Guardian'' that the culture of informants and moral capitulations "comes wonderfully to life in Funder's racy account". ''Stasiland'' has been published in sixty nine co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
