The Glassmaker

Pre-Order Ships 8 May 2025

To celebrate the publication of The Glassmaker in paperback we've teamed up with Tracy Chevalier and the HarperFiction team at HarperCollins to gift you, The Rhinoceros, an exclusive short story by Tracy Chevalier as well as the opportunity for one lucky person to win signed copies of Tracy's backlist titles.

How to enter

Simply pre-order a copy of The Glassmaker before midnight on 7th May 2025.

Customers who pre-order will receive a digital copy of The Rhinoceros on publication day, 8th May. Anyone that has already pre-ordered a copy via Bookshop.org has been automatically entered into the prize draw. Full T&C's here.

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Description

'Spellbinding' ELIF SHAFAK

'Ingenious' THE TIMES, Book of the Year

'Sparkling'OBSERVER

'A triumph' PHILIP PULLMAN

'As finely wrought as a dazzling Murano bead' INDEPENDENT

'Meticulously researched and evoking the beauty of the Venice lagoon’ PHILIPPA GREGORY

‘A spectacular feat, crafted by a maestra at the top of her game’ SPECTATOR

FROM THE GLOBALLY ACCLAIMED AUTHOR OF GIRL WITH A PEARL EARRING

Venice, 1486.

Across the lagoon lies Murano. Time flows differently here – like the glass the island’s maestros spend their lives perfecting.

In secret, Orsola Rosso learns to craft glass. As a woman, she must flout convention to save her family from ruin. We follow her through hundreds of years of war and plague, tragedy and triumph, love and loss.

Skipping like a stone across the centuries, The Glassmaker is a virtuoso portrait of a woman, a family and a city that are as everlasting as glass.