
We recently spoke to about her writing, favourite books, and her ambitious second novel, March, an imaginative account of the life of the much-absent father in Louisa May Alcott’s classic, Little Women. In 2002, Brooks caused a new literary sensation with her first novel, Year of Wonders, a historical fiction set in England during the Plague, published to rave reviews both here and overseas.

Next came her autobiography, appropriately titled Foreign Correspondent. Australian success story Geraldine Brooks first hit the bestseller lists nearly 15 years ago with her first book Nine Parts of Desire, an intriguing exploration of the everyday lives and experiences of Arab women in the countries she covered as a foreign correspondent for ABC.
