Victoria Hislop’s The Figurine has become the UK Official UK Top 50 number one in its mass-market fiction paperback launch week, just edging out Claire Douglas’ The Wrong Sister (Penguin), which had held the pole position for two out of the previous three weeks. (from The Bookseller) Victoria Hislop’s The Figurine has become the […]
The other day, I did a quick count of all the Greek islands I have visited, and it came to more than 40, with dozens more on my wish list. One of the reasons I keep travelling to new and sometimes obscure islands is that they are all so individual. “The Greek islands” may get […]
Novelist Victoria Hislop has found ‘the storytelling spark’ in Crete, Thessaloniki and the streets of Athens. Who better to ask for an inspirational guide to their highlights? (from The Telegraph, October 27, 2020) Greece has become more than a second home – it has also given me a second citizenship. In September, I swore my […]
(for The Times, July 26 2019) These five books are important works about Greece — fiction and nonfiction — and all of them will help any reader to understand the country in greater depth. Most importantly, they are not about ancient times, but Greece today, as it was shaped by events of the 20th century. […]
It took Victoria Hislop a while, but she learned to love the chaos and joy of Greece’s third-largest city (in The Guardian, Saturday 29 July 2017) When I visited Patra for the first time, I was baffled. Driving in from Athens through the modern sprawl along the coast, I couldn’t understand how the third largest city in […]
As Spinalonga enters the final stage of its nomination as a UNESCO World Heritage site, the cast and crew of the iconic Greek MEGA TV show The Island look back and share their memories (Manos Drakonakis for Neoskosmos) Once synonymous with suffering and death, Spinalonga, the jewel of Mirabello Bay, has risen to world fame through […]
