Books by Shelley Emling

The first book to focus on the relationship between famed scientist Marie Curie and her two remarkable daughters. Drawing on personal interviews with Curie's descendants, as well as revelatory new archives, this is a wholly new story about Marie Curie and a family of women inextricably connected to the dawn of nuclear physics.

The first modern, secular biography of St. Catherine of Siena, Italy's answer to Joan of Arc, which casts a 21st-century eye over her Short, dramatic life. In Setting the World on Fire, Shelley Emling gives an intimate portrayal of this fascinating and revolutionary woman.