Mar 13, 2010 Posted by booktiger

Remarkable Creatures – Tracey Chevalier

Remarkable Creatures is one of those wonderful books where the author is deliberately writing fiction, and never claiming that it is anything but, but she is basing that fiction on a lesser known historical figure and in turn not just bringing that figure to life, but reviving interest in that figure in a way that a straight history never could. This book is about Mary Anning, arguably the greatest fossil... read more