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Chevalier says: 'I used to think that female authors wrote mostly about domestic issues, but reading a year's worth of novels by women has blown that out of the water'

Tracy Chevalier: 'I make quilts – five years ago I'd have thought, "How boring!"'

I was astonished with the success of 'Girl with a Pearl Earring' Does a book about a Dutch painter and a servant girl in love with him sound like it's going to sell 4 million copies? But the love people have for Vermeer and the passion for that painting somehow unlocked people's curiosity.

Foyles bucks bad news for booksellers with latest branch at Olympics site

If close observers of the bookselling trade had been asked to pick the likely survivors from among the plethora of small chains that have steadily disappeared from Britain's high streets it is unlikely that Foyles would have been at the top of anyone's lists.

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