Victoria Hislop and Alicia E. Stallings were awarded with the Lord Byron Medal of Philanthropy 2025 at the Athens Academy, on Tuesday 04 February 2025. The two internationally acclaimed ladies of literature, British author Victoria Hislop and American poet and poetry professor at Oxford University, Alicia Elizabeth Stallings were honoured with this award an initiative […]
Victoria Hislop has received four Specsavers Bestseller awards for her bestselling titles: The Island, The Thread, The Return and The Sunrise. Her 2005-published novel, The Island, which was inspired by a visit to an abandoned Greek leprosy colony, receives a Platinum award for selling over a million copies. It became a 26-part Greek TV series and win Newcomer of the Year at the British Book Awards. The Thread, The Return and The Sunrise, the last […]
The Island, Victoria Hislop’s internationally bestselling debut novel has been chosen by readers as one of WH Smith’s Best Paperbacks of All Time, joining works as dazzlingly diverse as To Kill a Mockingbird and Pride and Prejudice. You can see a full list of the books chosen by readers here. WHSmith says of their Best […]
Victoria Hislop’s collection of favourite short stories by other female writers, simply titled The Story has given me more pleasure this year than almost all the rest of my reading put together. Like a box of festive Quality Street, you can dip in and never be sure what you will encounter – it might be […]
“The Costa Short Story Awards were announced on 28th January. Victoria was a judge for the short story award for the second year. This is a competition open to everyone, from established writers to those who have never been published. This year there were approximately 1500 entries and the shortlisted six were then voted on […]
