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 ...

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 ...

I'm reading Miss Buncle's Book by D.E. Stevenson. I'm on holiday and was looking for something light, entertaining and well written. It was originally published in 1934, and is about a woman living in ...

Chevalier's new novel follows one of the generation of "surplus women," who lost their men in World War I and had to make new lives for themselves... Tracy Chevalier Says 'A Single Thread' Can Make ...

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, ...

This first novel by Washington native Tracy Chevalier was published in England in 1997—three years before her American debut, the best-selling Girl With a Pearl Earring. Now published for the first ...

If your idea of a page turner includes millinery, quilting, and Quaker life, Tracy Chevalier’s new novel, The Last Runaway, might have you panting from page one. For others, it’s going to take a bit ...

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 ...

Some writers have a mantra that leads them in their work, a guiding star to follow when they're lost deep in the woods. For bestselling historical novelist Tracy Chevalier, this mantra isn't from ...

Tracy Chevalier heads back to America for a novel about slavery, Quakers and quilting. She sews it all together for Lee Randall Did you know with a Digital Subscription to The Scotsman, you can get ...

Tracy Chevalier dips a hand into her bag to pluck out a circular black rock which, in the centre of her palm, glitters like the giant eyeball of a Jurassic Cyclops. The rock, she explains, is a fossil ...

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 ...