From heartwarming memoirs to gripping thrillers, February offers a diverse selection of literary treats. Explore tales of love and loss, delve into the lives of extraordinary women, and uncover hidden secrets. Discover new voices and revisit beloved classics in this month's must-read releases.
The publishing year may have had a gentle start last month, but February has some real gems heading our way. There are memoirs, novels, first fiction, hybrid essay collections, literary biographies, investigations and remarkable fiction originating from before white settlement in Australia.When the phone call came on Memorial Day 2019 in the United States, Geraldine Brooks’ world shattered. Her beloved husband, fellow author Tony Horwitz, had been felled by a heart attack on a Washington street.
This novel stems from the oral history of the Yolngu people from well before James Cook’s arrival in Australia when they traded with Macassans. It deals with the dangers they pose to young Garritji and how her grandmother can protect her. Leonie Norrington worked initially with her adoptive Yolgnu mother, Clare Bush, but after her death the writing of the book was eventually completed with her three Indigenous co-authors, “holders of the Macassan time stories in their community”.
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