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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

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

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...

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

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...

👍🏼 dint be out off by the form. Just cut and paste the numbers. It takes a little doing but not hard

🚨 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

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.

As a former clarinet player, this gave me all the feels 🥲

BBC News - Woman plays clarinet during four-hour brain surgery - BBC News
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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...

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 know those cases well! 😉

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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

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....

Heading to Booka books in Oswestry June 17th to talk Glassmaker. Come!

www.bookabookshop.co.uk/events/an-ev...

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.

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...

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…

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...

Taking part in a project by Carrie Mae Weems, at Turin book fair. Intense and profound.

Thank you, Ray!

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

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👇🏼

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.

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!

Lucky you, night train to Venice. You'll step off at the end into a wondrous scene

That you! Was writing that 25 yrs ago. Glad it still holds up

I'm so chuffed this is on the radio! ♥️ BBC

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 💔

Useful, Philip, thx! I'm going to Florence end Feb for a book festival and had contemplated booking to walk that corridor. I won't bother now!

This is amazing, moving stitching