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.

Did you know there are thirty-seven Text Classics set in New South Wales? Or that twenty-two have won major awards? You can now filter the Classics based on setting as well as genre.

And you can sort them by author, introducer, Text Classic publication date or their very first publication date—the first in 1788,  in fact, when Watkin Tench wrote his fascinating account of arriving with the First Fleet.

Try out the new sorting features now.