Tracy Cook
Tracy Cook
Tracy has always loved reading and telling stories. After reading History at Oxford University, she joined the BBC producing and directing documentaries, including Children’s Hospital, Medicine Women, Law Women and Crimewatch Files. Later, as a freelance journalist, she wrote features for the national press, including The Times and The Guardian.
But her dream to write fiction never left her and when her two children grew up, she started writing. After graduating from the Faber Academy, she was longlisted for the Bridport Novel Prize in 2021. Her debut novel Wings over Valletta, set in rarely-depicted Malta during World War Two, comes out in May 2026 with Allison and Busby
She grew up in Brighton but now lives in Surrey, where she loves walking by the river every day, and still stands on one leg when she boils the kettle in eternal hope of strengthening her balance.