Text is delighted to congratulate Olga Tokarczuk, author of Flights and Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead on being awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature 2018.

This month’s featured classic is Myself When Young, the unfinished autobiography of one of the great Australian novelists, Henry Handel Richardson – a lively and revealing self-portrait of the artist as a young woman.

 
‘A gorgeous coming-of-age story that is both charming and deeply moving.’ Guardian on The Getting of Wisdom