Tracy Chevalier

On the windswept fossil-strewn beaches of the English coast Mary Anning learns that she has "the eye" - she finds what no one else can see. When Mary uncovers an unusual fossilized skeleton she sets the religious fathers on edge the townspeople to vicious gossip and the scientific world alight. But as a woman Mary is barred from the academic community. Luckily she finds a champion in prickly Elizabeth Philpot a recent exile from London.

In 1792 London. streetwise Maggie Butterfield and her friend, young Jim Kellaway, are drawn into poet William Blake's spell and influence one of the greatest and most mystical works in English literature.

1901, the year of the Queen's death. The two graves stood next to each other, both beautifully decorated. One had a large urn -- some might say ridiculously large -- and the other, almost leaning over the first, an angel -- some might say overly sentimental. The two families visiting the cemetery to view their respective neighbouring graves were divided more by social class than by taste. They would certainly never have become acquainted had not their...

Through the eyes of sixteen-year-old Griet, the world of 1660s Holland comes dazzlingly alive in this richly imagined portrait of the young woman who inspired one of Vermeer's most celebrated paintings.

This collection of original stories by today's finest women writers takes inspiration from the famous line in Charlotte Brontë's most beloved novel, Jane Eyre.

A fixture in the literary canon, Charlotte Brontë is revered by readers all over the world. Her books featuring unforgettable, strong heroines still resonate with millions today. And who could forget one of literatures' best-known lines: "Reader, I married him" from her classic

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Interweaves historical fact with fiction to explore the mystery behind the creation of the remarkable Lady and the Unicorn tapestries, woven at the end of the fifteenth century, which today hang in the Cluny Museum in Paris.

Antes de que Darwin escandalizara al mundo entero con sus teorías sobre el origen de las especies, hubo alguien que ya dudaba, buscaba, hacía preguntas En las playas llenas de fósiles de la costa inglesa, Mary Anning, una muchacha pobre y sin educación, y la huraña Elizabeth Philpot, una solterona de clase media, trabarán amistad, unidas por una misma pasión: el deseo de buscar las huellas de la vida en los fósiles y revelar así la historia...

This collection of original stories by today's finest women writers, including Tracy Chevalier, Francine Prose, Elizabeth McCracken, Tessa Hadley, Audrey Niffenegger, and more, takes inspiration from the opening line in Charlotte Brontë's most beloved novel, Jane Eyre.