# February 2022 new titles and recommendations

Source: https://ballaratmi.org.au/february-2022-new-titles-and-recommnedations/

## FEBRUARY

## New Releases

## Rosemary recommends more >

##### Mystery

##### [Book summary](https://ballaratmi.org.au/rosemarys-book-previews/#27)

*A Change of Circumstance | Susan Hill*

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##### Novel

##### [Book summary](https://ballaratmi.org.au/rosemarys-book-previews/#28)

*The Stranger in the Lifeboat | Mitch Albom*

##### Novel

##### [Book summary](https://ballaratmi.org.au/rosemarys-book-previews/#29)

*Go Tell The Bees That I am Gone | Diana Gabaldon*

##### Novel

##### [Book summary](https://ballaratmi.org.au/rosemarys-book-previews/#30)

*The Last of the Apple Blossom | Mary-Lou Stephens*

##### Australian

##### [Book summary](https://ballaratmi.org.au/rosemarys-book-previews/#31)

*The Stoning | Peter Papathanasiou*

##### Romance

##### [Book summary](https://ballaratmi.org.au/rosemarys-book-previews/#32)

*Anything Could Happen | Lucy Diamond*

##### Non-Fiction

##### [Book summary](https://ballaratmi.org.au/rosemarys-book-previews/#33)

*Funkytown | Paul Kennedy*

#### Rosemary's February newsletter

**Author of the Month | Wendy Holden**

Wendy grew up in Yorkshire. As well as writing her novels, she regularly writes features for newspapers and magazines on a range of social, topical and lifestyle subjects.

Wendy is married and lives in England with her family.

![Photo of Author sitting at desk and book](https://ballaratmi.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/wendy-holden-author-240x300.jpg)

*Wendy Holden*

**Book of the Month**

*The Russian Wife* by Barry Maitland

When the Russian wife of the owner of one of the most valuable private collections of modern art in the UK is found dead, Detective Chief Inspector David Brock is drawn into a high-stakes world very different to his own. From the dealers and galleries in London’s West End, his investigations take him to Hanover, Miami and New York on the trail of international forgery and fraud.

At the same time, his old colleague Detective Chief Inspector Chief Inspector Kathy Kolla, who now leads one of the Metropolitan Police Murder investigations teams, finds herself at the wrong end of a corruption charge. With her whole career in the balance, she will do almost anything to clear her name.

![Book cover, person walking by a lake/river in winter](https://ballaratmi.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/the-russian-wife.jpg)

*The Russian Wife | Barry Maitland*

**Recommended Reads**

*The Gardener* by Salley Vickers

Artist Hassie Days, and her sister, Margot, buy a run-down Jacobean house in Hope Wenlock on the Welsh Marches. While Margot continues her London life in high finance, Hassie is left alone to work the large, long-neglected garden.

![Couple tending a garden inside an wide maroon margin](https://ballaratmi.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/the-gardener-663x1024.jpg)

*The Gardener | Salley Vickers*

*The School Teacher of Saint-Michel* by Sarah Steele

France, 1942 At the end of the day, the school teacher releases her pupils. She checks they have their identity passes, and warns them not to stop until the German guards have let them through the barrier that separates occupied France from free France. As the little ones fly across the border and into their mothers’ arms, she breathes a sigh of relief. No one is safe now. Not even the children.

Berkshire, present day. A letter left to her by her beloved late grandmother Gigi takes Hannah Stone on a journey deep into the heart of the Dordogne landscape. As she begins to unravel a forgotten history of wartime bravery and sacrifice, she discovers the heartrending secret that binds her grandmother to a village schoolteacher, the remarkable Lucie Laval…

![bock cover woman walking down a lane with church in the background](https://ballaratmi.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/the-schoolteacher-of-saint-michel.jpg)

*The School Teacher of Saint Michel | Sarah Steele*

**Rosemary’s New Releases & Recommendations from last month**

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