Books like Girl with a Pearl Earring
A young Protestant maid enters the Catholic Vermeer household in 1660s Delft and slowly, against every domestic and erotic pressure, becomes the girl in the painting.
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The Henna Artist
In Jaipur in 1955, Lakshmi Shastri, who fled an abusive marriage at seventeen, has made herself the most sought-after henna artist among the city's wealthy women, until a younger sister she never knew she had turns up at her door.
The Safekeep
A controlling woman in a post-war Dutch house is forced to take in her brother's girlfriend for the summer and finds, in the heat and the house, something she has not looked at for thirty years.
The Ebony Tower
A novella and four shorter pieces about concealment and desire: a young English painter's visit to an old master and his two young companions in Brittany, a medieval lay retold, a burglary, a vanished politician and a picnic.
An Artist of the Floating World
In the years after World War II, a once-celebrated Japanese painter tries to arrange his daughter's marriage while slowly facing the propaganda he made for the imperial cause.
The Familiars
In 1612 Lancashire, seventeen-year-old Fleetwood Shuttleworth, pregnant again after miscarriages that nearly killed her, hires a midwife named Alice Gray just as the Pendle witch accusations begin.
Longbourn
Pride and Prejudice from below stairs: Sarah, an orphaned housemaid who scrubs the Bennets' petticoats at Longbourn, grows curious about James Smith, the quiet new footman who arrives with no references and a past he will not discuss.
The Marriage Portrait
In 1561, Lucrezia de' Medici, the teenage wife of the Duke of Ferrara, is taken by her husband to a remote country villa and becomes certain that he intends to kill her.
Rosshalde
On the estate of Rosshalde, the celebrated painter Johann Veraguth lives estranged from his wife, his one joy their small son Pierre, as a friend urges him to leave for India.
The Remains of the Day
An ageing English butler reflects on a lifetime of service, repressed love, and the moral compromises of loyalty to a flawed master.
The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh
The collected letters of Vincent van Gogh, most of them to his brother Theo, a portrait of artistic obsession, poverty and vision in the painter's own words.
Horse
The story of Lexington, the most celebrated racehorse in nineteenth-century America, and Jarret, the enslaved groom who raised him, connects to a 1950s New York art dealer and, in 2019, to a Smithsonian scientist and a Nigerian-American art historian who uncover their story.
The Shell Seekers
Penelope Keeling, sixty-four and newly home from hospital, owns a painting by her father, a Victorian artist suddenly back in fashion, and her three grown children each have plans for it.