The new novel from the author of "March" and "Year of Wonders" takes place in the aftermath of the Bosnian War, as a young book conservator arrives in Sarajevo to restore a lost treasure. As meticulously researched as all of Brooks's previous work, "People of the Book" is a gripping and moving novel about war, art, love and survival.

Geraldine Brooks was born and raised in Australia. After moving to the USA she worked for eleven years on The Wall Street Journal, where she covered crises in the Middle East, Africa and the Balkans. Her first novel, Year of Wonders, was an international bestseller and she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction for her second, March. She has written three further bestselling novels, Caleb's Crossing, People of the Book and The Secret Chord.