Tracy Chevalier

Book Description: Amsterdam : Muntinga Pockets 's-Gravenhage : 2005. Oorspr. Nederlandse, Gravenhage 2001. Met lit. opg. Bevat tevens : Zilver leesclubwijzer. Vert. van: Girl with a pearl earring. - London : HarperCollins, 1999.

A tour de force of history and imagination, The Lady and the Unicorn is Tracy Chevalier’s answer to the mystery behind one of the art world’s great masterpieces—a set of bewitching medieval tapestries that hangs today in the Cluny Museum in Paris. They appear to portray the seduction of a unicorn, but the story behind …

A New York Times bestseller From the author of the international bestseller Girl With A Pearl Earring and At the Edge of the Orchard, Tracy Chevalier once again paints a distant age with a rich and provocative palette of characters.Falling Angels follows the fortunes of two families in the emerging years of the …

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 …