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‘This collection is stormy, romantic, strong – the Full Brontë’ The TimesA collection of short stories celebrating Charlotte Brontë, published in the year of her bicentenary and stemming from the now immortal words from her great work Jane Eyre.The twenty-one stories in Reader, I Married Him – one of the most celebrated lines in fiction – are inspired by Jane Eyre and shaped by its perennially fascinating themes of love, compromise and self-determination.A bohemian wedding party takes an unexpected turn for the bride and her daughter; a family trip to a Texan waterpark prompts a life-changing decision; Grace Poole defends Bertha Mason and calls the general opinion of Jane Eyre into question. Mr Rochester reveals a long-kept secret in “Reader, She Married Me”, and “The Mirror” boldly imagines Jane’s married life after the novel ends. A new mother encounters an old lover after her daily swim and inexplicably lies to him, and a fitness instructor teaches teenage boys how to handle a pit bull terrier by telling them Jane Eyre’s story.Edited by Tracy Chevalier, this collection brings together some of the finest and most creative voices in fiction today, to celebrate and salute the strength and lasting relevance of Charlotte Brontë’s game-changing novel and its beloved narrator.

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Sögusviðið er Delft árið 1664. Griet ræðst sem þjónustustúlka á barnmargt heimili hollenska listmálarans Johannesar Vermeers. Lífið hennar vandast þeger Vermeer fær hana til að sitja fyrir hjá sér. Höfundur leiðir lesandann með sér inn í heim málverksins, á svo töfrandi hátt að tilfinningin verður næstum ljúfsár. Þessi hrífandi saga er byggð á einu þekktasta málverki Vermeers sem er einnig þekkt undir nafninu Stúlka með túrban. Sagan hefur farið sigurför um heiminn og verið kvikmynduð af með Scarlett Johannson og Colin Firth í aðalhlutverkunum. Bókin hefur selst í 20.000 eintaka á íslandi.

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Lundúnir 1792. Eftir að bróðir Jems Kellaway deyr á æskuslóðunum í Dorsetskíri flyst fjölskyldan til borgarinnar þar sem Jem kynnist pörustúlkunni Maggý, sirkuslífinu í Lambeth og hinum seiðmagnaða nágranna sínum, skáldinu og róttæklingnum William Blake. Á meðan blóðugar fréttir berast yfir Ermasundið af byltingunni í Frakklandi takast Jem og Maggý á við miklar umbreytingar í eigin lífi, feta krákustígi stórborgarinnar og velta fyrir sér andstæðum sveitar og borgar, fátæktar og ríkidæmis, gæfu og auðnuleysis – og því sem leynist þar á milli.

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"Ein beeindruckender Roman über zwei abenteuerlustige Frauen, eine wunderbare Freundschaft und die faszinierende Welt der Fossilien." The Telegraph Seit Mary als Baby vom Blitz getroffen wurde, steht fest, dass sie für Höheres bestimmt ist. Und tatsächlich: Niemand findet so spektakuläre Fossilien am Strand des kleinen Städtchens Lyme wie Mary. Eines Tages macht sie eine erstaunliche Entdeckung, doch in der männerdominierten Welt des 19. Jahrhunderts schenkt ihr niemand Gehör. Zum Glück findet sie in Elizabeth, einer jungen Frau aus besseren Kreisen, die aus London in die Provinz ziehen musste, eine Verbündete. Die Freundschaft wird bald ihr wichtigster Halt – bis sich Mary und Elizabeth in denselben Mann verlieben.

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Delft, 1664. Die junge Magd Griet wird in den Haushalt des holländischen Malers Johannes Vermeer gegeben und avanciert schnell zur Schülerin und Muse des Malers. Sie zeigt eine scheue, in Andeutungen belassene Zuneigung zu dem Künstler, dem sie schließlich Modell sitzt, was für Schikanen seitens Vermeers eifersüchtiger Gattin sorgt. Als der Maler das junge Mädchen bittet, den Perlenohrring seiner Frau für ein Porträt anzulegen, löst er eine Katastrophe aus, die Griets Zukunft bedroht.  Dieser moderne Klassiker und internationale Erfolg mit über 5 Millionen erkauften Exemplaren weltweit bleibt auch zwanzig Jahre nach Erscheinen mit seinen eindrücklichen und zugleich schlichten Beschreibungen ein zeitloses Meisterwerk, ganz nach dem Vorbild Vermeers.  Grundlage der gleichnamigen und für den Oscar nominierten Verfilmung mit Scarlett Johanson und Colin Firth aus dem Jahr 2003.

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‘A triumph. Excellent’ Time Out‘A beautifully crafted story shot with vivid colours’ The TimesShe was called Isabelle, and when she was a small girl her hair changed colour in the time it takes a bird to call to its mate…Midwife Isabelle du Moulin is marked as different, by both her red hair and her love for the Virgin Mary in her rich blue robes. As religious fervour sweeps 16th-century France, Isabelle’s striking likeness to the Madonna puts her in danger when her village is enraptured by new Protestant doctrine.Four centuries later, Ella Turner moves to the French village of Lisle-sur-Tarn and finds her dreams are haunted by the colour blue. Ella hopes to become both a midwife and a mother, but her plans unravel as she discovers her link to Isabelle, and her ancestor’s shocking fate.

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‘Vividly imagined’ Sunday Telegraph‘Sex and death meet again in [a] marvellous evocation of Edwardian England’ Daily MailThe girl reminded me of my favourite chocolates, whipped hazelnut creams, and I knew just from looking at her that I wanted her for my best friend.Queen Victoria is dead. In January 1901, the day after her passing, two very different families visit neighbouring graves in a London cemetery. The traditional Waterhouses revere the late Queen where the Colemans have a more modern outlook, but both families are appalled by the friendship that springs up between their respective daughters.As the girls grow up, their world changes almost beyond measure: cars are replacing horses, electric lighting is taking over from gas, and emancipation is fast approaching, to the delight of some and the dismay of others…

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Those eyes are fixed on someone. But who? What is she thinking as she stares out from one of the world’s best-loved paintings?Johannes Vermeer can spot exceptional beauty. When servant girl Griet catches his eye, she soon becomes both student and muse. But then he gives her his wife’s pearl earrings to wear for a portrait, and a scandal erupts that could threaten Griet’s future.Vivid, captivating and much emulated, this is a timeless modern classic and an international bestseller, with over 5 million copies sold around the world; now with a new introduction by the author.

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‘A visual delight’ The Times‘A splendidly vital recreation of Georgian London’ Sunday Times‘Tell me, then: would you say you are innocent or experienced?’1792. Uprooted from their quiet Dorset village to the riotous streets of London, young Jem Kellaway and his family feel very far from home. They struggle to find their place in this tumultuous city, still alive with the repercussions of the blood-splattered French Revolution.Luckily, streetwise Maggie Butterfield is on hand to show Jem the ropes. Together they encounter the neighbour they’ve been warned about: radical poet and artist William Blake. Jem and Maggie’s passage from innocence to experience becomes the very stuff of poetic inspiration…

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FROM THE GLOBALLY BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF GIRL WITH A PEARL EARRING‘Bittersweet … dazzling’ Guardian‘Deeply pleasurable … the ending made me cry’ The Times‘Told with a wealth of detail and narrative intensity’ Penelope LivelyViolet is 39.She lost her fiancé in the Great War.She is considered a ‘surplus woman’.But Violet is also fiercely independent, intelligent and determined. Escaping her suffocating mother, she moves to Winchester to start a new life – an endeavour which will require courage, resilience and a series of quiet rebellions…

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