The Red Hand is a tribute to literary giant Peter Temple and a reminder of what we’ve lost. It contains a sizeable chunk of what would have been the fifth Jack Irish novel, short stories, a film script, book reviews, essays and autobiographical musings about Australian life – like this one...

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