Tracy Chevalier

Pige med perleørering er en historisk roman forfattet af Tracy Chevalier og udgivet i 1999. Bogen som foregår i det 17. århundredes Delft, Holland er en fiktionsfortælling over maleren Johannes Vermeers maleri Pige med perleørering, maleren selv, pigen der stod model, Vermeers kone og svigermor og andre personer. …

Mary Anning was facinated by fossils from an early age, realising she could sell them to the gentry who had become avid collectors. She was often ripped off by the buyers and derided by scientists but was rescued by Elizabeth Philpot and their unlikely friendship would take strange twists as the importance of these …

The stunning new novel from the bestselling author of Girl with a Pearl Earring. Honor Bright is a sheltered Quaker who has rarely ventured out of 1850s Dorset when she impulsively emigrates to America. Opposed to the slavery that defines and divides the country, she finds her principles tested to the limit when a …