Happy New Year to all our readers. As we get ready to do it all again, here are a couple of lovely distractions for you while you enjoy your holidays.

Congratulations to Kris Kneen and John Morrissey on being shortlisted for the 2024 Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards.

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Congratulations to Robbie Arnott on winning the 2023 Voss Literary Prize for Limberlost.

Our featured classic for April is Joan Lindsay’s charming and evocative autobiography tells the story of her marriage to Sir Daryl Lindsay, of their life in Melbourne in the 1920s and ’30s. Revealed in this delightful reminiscence is Lindsay’s fascination with the ambiguities of time, seen by some as the key to the mysteries of her masterpiece Picnic at Hanging Rock.