People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks
the novel “People of the Book”, written by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author Geraldine Brooks is available for £2.99 with tHe Times Newspaper this week.
Inspired by the true story of a mysterious codex known as the Sarajevo Haggadah. The story concerns an priceless illuminated manuscript which having made a series of incredibly, perilous journeys: through Inquisition-era Venice, fin-de-siecle Vienna, and the Nazi sacking of Sarajevo, survives due to the dedication of a bunch of people taking care of it.
The manuscript is eventually uncoverd Years later and an Australian rare-book expert named Hanna Heath is offered the job of a lifetime: analysis and conservation of the famed manuscript.
Hanna, a caustic loner with a passion for her work, discovers a series of tiny artifacts in its ancient binding—an insect wing fragment, wine stains, salt crystals, a white hair, and becomes determined to unlock the book’s mysteries and secrets and to find out the reason for the Haggadah’s extraordinary illuminations…
Oooh this book sounds really thrilling & interesting 
, I’d really like to read this once I’ve finished “The End of Mr Y”.
