Tracy Chevalier
Author (Girl with a Pearl etc). Maker. Best advice: Less is more.
Website: tracychevalier.com
- Happy birthday, Jane! This is the first £10 note I got with Austen on it. Has hung in my study since 2017 #janeausten250
- Griet's father in Girl with a Pearl Earring was a Delft tile painter. Now even he is getting replaced by AI 😒 All fired up about antique Delft – and a surprise brush with AI | The Observer share.google/dYTOXCFbUibq...
- Londoners: I have 2 tickets for Amy Speace on 28 November that I can no longer use. If interested please email me at hello@tchevalier.com
- Help us keep a Dorset painting in Dorset! A rare 15th-century painting has been discovered in Dorset. Can you help @dorsetmuseum.bsky.social buy it so it will be on show to everyone? All donations small and large very welcome! www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/qr/VlDoEVE...
- A new episode of The Power of a Book podcast has dropped! In which Yours Truly interviews Jessie Burton, Patrice Lawrence and Francesca Simon about their favourite childhood books. Thanks to @childrensbooksf.bsky.social for making this happen. open.spotify.com/episode/2f0A...
- 🚨 Attention, Authors🚨 Anthropic has agreed to pay authors for having scraped/stolen their books. $1500 per book (another $1500 goes to your publisher). Here's where you can check if your books have been used and the form to fill out: secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup
- As a former clarinet player, this gave me all the feels 🥲 BBC News - Woman plays clarinet during four-hour brain surgery - BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/...
- Authors in UK: Need a room of your own for writing? The RSL Scriptorium Awards give 10 authors just that for a month! Applications open now, due by 18 July. rsliterature.org/rsl-scriptor...
- Out today in paperback in the USA! Read it to escape from today's news into 15th-century (and 16th, 17th, 18th etc) Venice...
- I'm midway through UK paperback book tour of The Glassmaker, with some juicy events still to come in Scarborough, Hampshire, Dorset, Shropshire, London and Felixstowe! Have a look and come along: tracychevalier.com/events
- Heading to Booka books in Oswestry June 17th to talk Glassmaker. Come! www.bookabookshop.co.uk/events/an-ev...
- RIP Loretta Swit, aka Hot Lips Houlihan. A fixture in my childhood. You were way too good for Frank! BBC News - M*A*S*H actress Loretta Swit dies aged 87 www.bbc.com/news/article...
- Heading to Scarborough in a week. Will pay respects at Ann Brontë's grave and dig toes into the sand. AND talk about The Glassmaker at Books by the Beach. Come along! www.ticketsource.co.uk/ymcascarboro...
- Reposted by Tracy ChevalierDelighted to announce the winner of the Best First Novel Award 2025, chosen by @tracychevalier.bsky.social from our shortlist of six, is Ferdia Lennon for Glorious Exploits: www.authorsclub.co.uk/best-first-n...
- Taking part in a project by Carrie Mae Weems, at Turin book fair. Intense and profound.
- UK authors and readers: Please help protect authors' livelihoods from unlicensed use of their work in AI training by signing this open letter to the UK government: chng.it/nn4ZfPyFBN
- A rousing protest today at Meta UK HQ by authors angry at having their work stolen to create data for AI. It's illegal and wrong! We should be asked and paid for our work. Where's your morals, Meta? #metabookthieves #makeitfair #societyofauthors My favourite sign there👇🏼
- Thank you, sensible Wisconsin voters 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 www.nytimes.com/2025/04/01/u...
- Can't wait, Stephanie! I want to hear all about that University Challenge triumph!
- Very over-excited to announce that I’ll be back at my favourite literary destination @hayfestival.bsky.social doing an event about my new novel with stone-cold legend @tracychevalier.bsky.social - tickets on public sale Fri 14 Mar! ⬇️ www.hayfestival.com/p-23626-trac...
- I'm so chuffed this is on the radio! ♥️ BBC
- #Books #Radio Episode 1 The Glassmaker by Tracy Chevalier Today 22:45 BBC Radio 4 In the sweeping historical novel from @tracychevalier.bsky.social, Orsolo Rosso the glassmaker's daughter flouts Venetian convention to save her family. Read by Emily Bruni. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
- Today's awful crash in DC reminds me of the 1982 plane crash into the Potomac. My dad was a photographer for Washington Post & spent many hours on 14th St bridge taking photos. I remember him describing this heartbreaking boot; I can't recall if he took it. Thinking of the families and rescuers 💔
- This is amazing, moving stitching
- Today I learned about the 🇨🇦 artist Sandra Sawatzky and the epic-scaled embroidered tapestry she has created, emulating the Bayeux tapestry, to chronicle the history of fossil fuel extraction. #needlework, #SubversiveStitch www.theblackgoldtapestry.com
- Dissipation Of race relations Consolation Segregation Dispensation Isolation Exploitation Mutilation Mutation Miscreation Confirmation to the evils of the world If you recognise this, you should listen to The Wonder of Stevie podcast. Excellent.
- For a little balance, Stevie's more optimistic list Proclamation Of race relations Consolation Integration Verification Of revelation Acclamation World salvation Vibration Stimulation Confirmation to the peace of the world ❤️SW
- Very cool. Well done, Gary Johnson, for spotting these. Mary Anning would be proud! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
- My Woman of the Year. Thank you Gisele Pélicot for your bravery. You have turned the shame towards those who deserve it. Women everywhere salute you!
- Village names don't get any more straightforward than this
- Looking for a book to give this season? Some great and fun recommendations here (including by Yours Truly) caroleburns.substack.com/p/the-perfec...
- Only today, The Glassmaker is available on Kindle in the UK for just 99p. Blimey! bit.ly/4ijgrnj
- Thanks Nick Rennison for choosing The Glassmaker as a Top 10 Historical Fiction 2024! www.thetimes.com/article/0eb3...
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- Reposted by Tracy ChevalierFor advent we're revisiting a favourite post each day, starting with our very first review 8 years ago! reviewsbywriters.blogspot.com/2016/07/rema... #AdventBooks #BlueSkyBooks #BSkyBooks #AdventDay1 #Advent ❤️📚 @tracychevalier.bsky.social #MaryAnning #greatwomen #greatreads
