Can one character shiver 15 times in a book, and shudder 12 times? Asking for a friend...👀 #amediting

You can vote on what wildlife should be on next UK banknotes! (Hint: please vote for brown hare) www.bankofengland.co.uk/banknotes/he...

Help us celebrate the UK’s wildlife

Tell us which animals you would like to see on our next series of banknotes by 3 July 2026

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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...

All fired up about antique Delft – and a surprise brush with AI | The Observer

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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...

Tracy Chevalier and Our Esteemed Authors Live In Conversation: Patrice Lawrence, Francesca Simon, Jessie Burton

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🚨 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/...

Woman plays clarinet during four-hour brain surgery

Denise Bacon, 65, underwent deep brain stimulation (DBS) as Parkinson's Disease has affected her ability to walk, swim, dance and play her instrument.

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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...

RSL Scriptorium Awards - Royal Society of Literature

Ten writer residencies presented to professionally active writers in need of a place to write.The 2025 Prize This year marks the inaugural presentation of the RSL Scriptorium Awards, inviting applicat...

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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...

An Evening with Tracy Chevalier – The Glassmaker - Booka Bookshop

Join us for an evening with Tracy Chevalier, the globally bestselling author of Girl With a Pearl Earring, as we celebrate the paperback publication of her latest novel The Glassmaker. Venice, 1486....

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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...

M*A*S*H actress Loretta Swit dies aged 87

Swit won awards for her role as "Hot Lips" Houlihan, a nurse based at hospital during the Korean War.

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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...

Delighted 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...

Best First Novel Award Winner Announced | The Authors' Club Since 1891

The Authors’ Club is pleased to announce that the winner of the 2025 Best First Novel Award is Ferdia Lennon’s Glorious Exploits (Fig Tree). This year’s guest adjudicator, novelist Tracy Chevalier…

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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

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Protect authors’ livelihoods from the unlicensed use of their work in AI training

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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...

Susan Crawford Wins Wisconsin Supreme Court Election, Despite Elon Musk’s Millions

Susan Crawford defeated Brad Schimel for a State Supreme Court seat in a race that shattered spending records and maintained a liberal majority on the court.

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Can't wait, Stephanie! I want to hear all about that University Challenge triumph!

Stephanie Merritt/SJ Parris@stephmerritt.bsky.social · 2y ago

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

B&W Thornton of Stratford-upon-Avon@bwthornton.bsky.social · 2y ago

#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

Deidre Lynch@drbibliomane.bsky.social · 2y ago

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.

Very cool. Well done, Gary Johnson, for spotting these. Mary Anning would be proud! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

UK's biggest ever dinosaur footprint trackways unearthed

About 200 footprints made by dinosaurs 166 million years ago have been unearthed in a quarry in Oxfordshire.

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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...

The Perfect Book for...

Based on the philosophy that there's a book for everyone on your shopping list

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Only today, The Glassmaker is available on Kindle in the UK for just 99p. Blimey! bit.ly/4ijgrnj

The Glassmaker: A spellbinding new novel set in Venice, from the acclaimed author of GIRL WITH A PEARL EARRING

The Glassmaker: A spellbinding new novel set in Venice, from the acclaimed author of GIRL WITH A PEARL EARRING eBook : Chevalier, Tracy: Amazon.co.uk: Kindle Store

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