Congratulations to Leanne Hall! The Gaps has won the Ethel Turner Prize for Young People’s Literature at the 2022 NSW Premier’s Literary Awards.

Text Publishing and the New Zealand Society of Authors Te Puni Kaituhi O Aotearoa (PEN NZ Inc) are thrilled to announce the shortlist for the 2022 Michael Gifkins Prize for an Unpublished Novel.

Congratulations to Garry Disher. The Way It Is Now is shortlisted for the 2022 ABA Nielsen Book of the Year Award for Adult Fiction.

Congratulations to Olga Tokarczuk! The Books of Jacob has been shortlisted for the 2022 International Booker Prize.

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.