No small part of the appeal of Chevalier's excellent debut, Girl with a Pearl Earring, was its plausibility; readers could readily accept the idea that Vermeer's famous painting might indeed have been ...

Two decades after the blockbuster that propelled Tracy Chevalier to the big-time, she turns her attention to the down-trodden single women of the inter-war period in her hotly-awaited new release.

In her new novel, “The Glassmaker,” Tracy Chevalier follows the fates of a family of Murano glassblowers from the Renaissance until now as the island faces plague, invasion and, eventually, ...

Tracy Chevalier's 1999 masterpiece, Girl with a Pearl Earring, was a tour de force, revealing the painter Vermeer through the eyes of his 16-year-old maid. A publishing sensation, the novel set the ...

Think of the din if the dead had voices, so many lives calling out to be recognized, so many tantalizing premises and exotic outcomes. But what usually remains are a few facts and bones -- an old ...

Writers will gather at the Facebook owner’s King’s Cross office in opposition to its use of the LibGen database to train its AI models Sam Altman, the OpenAI boss, has declared its new model ‘good at ...

Tracy Chevalier is sitting in a private members’ club in central London, sipping coffee and reminiscing about what was hardest about adjusting to life in England. Surprisingly, Have I Got News For You ...

In times of grave discomfort, Tracy Chevalier offers a welcome respite in her gentle new book of stitchery and manners, “A Single Thread” (Viking, 318 pp., ★★★½ out of four stars). Chevalier, author ...

Around a third of the way through Tracy Chevalier’s latest novel, At the Edge of the Orchard (The Borough Press, March), the narrative changes to a series of letters. The date on the first letter is ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

Novelist Tracy Chevalier has made a successful career out of reimagining the past. She discusses her inspiration and her craft with Talking Books’ Gavin Esler. Tracy Chevalier is a best-selling ...