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	Get ready to sequester yourself in a small cool room wearing your heat-be-gone booties because this month at Text we’ve got the gripping thriller Fear by Dirk Kurbjuweit, a South Australian-focussed edition of Griffith Review 55: State of Hope, a powerful work of non-fiction investigation by Kate Grenville in The Case Against Fragrance as well as gritty debut crime and a revealing tell-all memoir. The Perth Writers Festival kicks off on Thurs 23 February for four days. Text authors at the festival include Toni Jordan, Peter Mares, Elspeth Muir, Jock Serong, Eka Kurniawan and Ashleigh Wilson. Manuscript submissions for the Tenth Annual Text Prize for Young Adult and Children’s Writing close this Friday 3 February.  All details on how to submit are on our our website. If you have any questions regarding how to purchase heat-be-gone booties or how to avoid Dave's syndrome, follow us on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. from Text Publishing