Kassia St Clair

The Golden Thread

 

From colourful 30,000-year-old threads found in a Georgian cave to the Indian calicoes that sparked the Industrial Revolution, this book weaves a story of human ingenuity in 13, crisply entertaining episodes. A BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week, Sunday Times Book of the Year and shortlisted for the Somerset Maugham Award.

Book cover:
Woman in black blazer, white shirt, and skirt, posing in front of a blue wall.

Bio

Kassia St. Clair is an acclaimed author and storyteller and the UK’s best selling historian under 40. She specialises in telling illuminating stories about the overlooked and the everyday. She has sold hundreds of thousands of books globally and is best known for The Secret Lives in Colour. Kassia is valued for her thoughtful use of historical details that make ambitious and technical subjects accessible and memorable. Her writing is sumptuous, witty and a joy to read. Kassia’s readers find themselves learning new and unexpected things about the world and how the everyday came to be.