We’re back in leafy North London to visit the lovely (if slightly damaged – as she explains) home of author Tracy Chevalier! Tracy is the enormously successful novelist behind such books as The Lady and the Unicorn, Burning Brightand, most famously, the mega-hit Girl with a Pearl Earring. We talked to Tracy about her latest book A Single Thread plus hardcore book organisation, emulating Margaret Atwood, gifts from fans and book resolutions.

BOOKS

Daisy Buchanan – The Sisterhood

Tracy Chevalier – A Single Thread

Tracy Chevalier – Girl With a Pearl Earring

Leo Tolstoy – War and Peace

Jean-Paul Didierlaurent – The Reader on the 6.27

Susan Sontag – On Photography

Colson Whitehead – The Nickel Boys

Colson Whitehead – The Underground Railroad

Tana French – Wych Elm

Sophie Mackintosh – The Water Cure

Julian Barnes – Flaubert’s Parrot

JL Carr – A Month in the Country

Jan Morris – Venice

Judith Mackrell – Unfinished Palazzo

Donna Tartt – The Goldfinch

Margaret Drabble – The Needle’s Eye

Anne Tyler – Tin Can Tree

Mary Wollstonecraft- Original Stories

Tracy Chevalier – Burning Bright

LauraIngalls Wilder – Farmer Boy

Dylan Thomas – Poems of…

Tracy Chevalier – The Lady and the Unicorn

Tracy Chevalier – At the Edge of the Orchard

Tracy Chevalier – The Last Runaway

Helen Ellis – Southern Lady Code

Margaret Atwood – The Testaments

Margaret Atwood – Alias Grace

Margaret Atwood – The Handmaid’s Tale

Elizabeth Gilbert – Big Magic

EM Forster – Howards End

Jane Harris – The Observations

Jane Harris – Gillespie and I

Lorrie Moore – A Gate at the Stairs

Lorrie Moore – Bark

Lorrie Moore – Self Help

Lisa Taddeo – Three Women

Taffy Brodesser-Akner – Fleishman Is in Trouble

Sarah Waters –

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