Massimo Ortelio Ordre des livres (chronologique)

FROM THE GLOBALLY BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF GIRL WITH A PEARL EARRING 'A triumph... a brilliant idea carried out with confidence and brio and a deep love of an extraordinary city. The ingenuity of the time-skipping is beyond admiration' PHILIP PULLMAN 'Spellbinding.... Chevalier at her fabulous best. A rich, vivid and gently enchanting novel' ELIF SHAFAK Venice, 1486. Across the lagoon lies Murano. Time flows differently here - like the glass the island's maestros spend their lives learning to handle. Women are not meant to work with glass, but Orsola Rosso flouts convention to save her family from ruin. She works in secret, knowing her creations must be perfect to be accepted by men. But perfection may take a lifetime. Skipping like a stone through the centuries, we follow Orsola as she hones her craft through war and plague, tragedy and triumph, love and loss. The beads she creates will adorn the necks of empresses and courtesans from Paris to Vienna - but will she ever earn the respect of those closest to her? Tracy Chevalier is a master of her own craft, and The Glassmaker is vivid, inventive, spellbinding: a virtuoso portrait of a woman, a family and a city that are as everlasting as their glass.

A pure pleasure of a novel set in Georgian London, where the discovery of a mysterious ancient Greek vase sets in motion conspiracies, revelations and romance. A pure pleasure of a novel set in Georgian London, where the discovery of a mysterious ancient Greek vase sets in motion conspiracies, revelations and romance. There is a fine line between coincidence and fate... London, 1799. Dora Blake is an aspiring jewellery artist who lives with her uncle in what used to be her parents' famed shop of antiquities. When a mysterious Greek vase is delivered, Dora is intrigued by her uncle's suspicious behaviour and enlists the help of Edward Lawrence, a young man seeking acceptance into the Society of Antiquaries. Edward sees the ancient vase as key to unlocking his academic future. Dora sees it as a chance to restore her parents' shop to its former glory, and to escape her uncle. But what Edward discovers about the vase has Dora questioning everything she has ever known about her life, her family and the world as she knows it. As Dora uncovers the truth she starts to realise that some mysteries are buried, and some doors are locked, for a reason. Gorgeously atmospheric and deliciously page-turning, Pandora deals with themes of secrets and deception, love and fulfilment, fate and hope.

It is 1932, and the losses of the First World War are still keenly felt. Violet Speedwell, mourning for both her fiance and her brother and regarded by society as a 'surplus woman' unlikely to marry, resolves to escape her suffocating mother and strike out alone. A new life awaits her in Winchester. Yes, it is one of draughty boarding-houses and sidelong glances at her naked ring finger from younger colleagues; but it is also a life gleaming with independence and opportunity. Violet falls in with the broderers, a disparate group of women charged with embroidering kneelers for the Cathedral, and is soon entwined in their lives and their secrets. As the almost unthinkable threat of a second Great War appears on the horizon Violet collects a few secrets of her own that could just change everything... Warm, vivid and beautifully orchestrated, A Single Thread reveals one of our finest modern writers at the peak of her powers.

A set of bewitching medieval tapestries hangs today in a protected chamber in Paris. They appear to portray a woman's seduction of a unicorn, but the story behind their making is unknown - until now. Paris, 1490. A shrewd French nobleman commissions six lavish tapestries celebrating his rising status at Court. He hires the charismatic, arrogant, sublimely talented Nicolas des Innocents to design them. Nicolas creates havoc among the women in the house - mother and daughter, servant and lady-in-waiting - before taking his designs north to the Brussels workshop where the tapestries are to be woven. There, master-weaver Georges de la Chapelle risks everything he has on finishing the tapestries - his finest, most intricate work - on time for his exacting French client. Ill-prepared for temptation and seduction, he and his family are consumed by the project and by their dealings with the hot-blooded painter from Paris. The results change all their lives - lives that have been captured in the tapestries, for those who know where to look.

The new Sunday Times bestseller from David Nicholls - 'That most rare and coveted of literary feats: a popular novel of serious merit, a bestseller that will also endure.' Observer

From the author of the bestselling The Essex Serpent comes a darkly inventive and deeply moving novel that speaks urgently to our times.

Dans les années 1810, sur la côte du Dorset, Mary Anning découvre ses premiers fossiles et se passionne pour ces "prodigieuses créatures" dont l'existence remet en question les théories sur la création du monde. Elle se heurte aux préjugés de la communauté scientifique, entièrement composée d'hommes, qui la confine dans un rôle de figuration. Elle trouve heureusement une alliée en la personne d'Elizabeth Philpot, vieille fille intelligente, qui l'accompagne dans ses explorations

Apres un revers sentimental, Honor fuit les regards compatissants des membres de sa communauté quaker. Elle s’embarque pour les États-Unis avec sa sour, Grace, qui doit rejoindre son fiancé. A l’éprouvante traversée s’ajoute bientôt une autre épreuve : la mort de Grace, emportée par la fievre jaune. Honor décide néanmoins de poursuivre son voyage jusqu’a Faithwell, une petite bourgade de l’Ohio. C'est dans cette Amérique encore sauvage et soumise aux lois esclavagistes, contre lesquelles les quakers s’insurgent, qu’elle va essayer de se reconstruire. Portrait intime de l’éclosion d’une jeune femme, témoignage précieux sur la vie des quakers et le «chemin de fer clandestin» – ce réseau de routes secretes des esclaves en fuite –, La derniere fugitive confirme la maîtrise romanesque de l’auteur du best-seller La jeune fille a la perle.

Aux États-Unis, Massachusetts, 1660-1715. Installé avec une poignée de pionniers anglais sur les terres de Martha’s Vineyard, une île au large de Cap Cod, le pasteur John Mayfield, homme de foi et grand humaniste, s’est donné pour mission de repousser les frontières du paganisme et d’amener au calvinisme les tribus Wampanoag locales. Un jour, alors qu’elle explore l’île, Bethia, la fille du pasteur, croise le chemin du jeune Cheeshahteaumack. Une rencontre incongrue, premier pas vers une amitié aussi inébranlable que secrète. Curieuse, Bethia se laisse initier aux rites païens des Wampanoag. En échange, la jeune fille accepte d’enseigner l’anglais et les Saintes Écritures à son nouvel ami, qu’elle rebaptise Caleb. Mais lorsqu’une épidémie de variole emporte sa tribu, Caleb trouve refuge auprès de John Mayfield. Intrigué par sa formidable intelligence, le pasteur va faire de ce jeune Indien un modèle d’intégration et de conversion. Son obsession : l’envoyer à Harvard afin d’en faire le porte parole de Dieu. Dans l’ombre de Caleb, Bethia tente elle aussi de trouver un chemin pour dépasser sa condition de femme et assouvir sa soif de connaissance…