Victoria in interview with Anthony Gardner
For Victoria Hislop, falling in love with the Mediterranean was not a slow burn, but something akin to standing under a hairdryer. ‘I remember the aeroplane doors opening,’ she says, […]
Interview
Homage to Thessaloniki
Victoria Hislop’s 2005 novel The Island was translated into more than twenty languages and topped best-seller lists in Greece and the UK. As her eagerly-awaited new book The Thread is […]
‘The Thread,’ a tale of survival and bonding
British author Victoria Hislop talks about her latest novel, inspired by 20th-century events in Thessaloniki By Sandy Tsantaki Greeks are likely most familiar with Victoria Hislop as the writer of […]
If I didn’t having my sewing machine, A wicked life I’d lead…
Fling off your fixation with junk fashion (Victoria writing in the Telegraph, 24 Nov 2011) Last week I saw a woman struggling along Oxford Street. She had three large hastening […]
Victoria talks to BBC’s “Meet the Author”
Victoria talks to the BBC’s Nick Higham about why she decided to base the story in Greece and its second largest city, the port of Thessaloniki. She also also talks […]
Victoria talks to Mariella Frostrup on Open Book
On BBC Radio 4’s “Open Book”, Victoria talks to Mariella Frostrup about the themes and the history behind her new novel “The Thread”, about her love of Greece, sewing costumes […]
