Juliet Stevenson reads “Those who are Loved”
You can now listen to exclusive extracts from the audiobook of Those Who are Loved, read by Juliet Stevenson, courtesy of Headline books. You can listen to the whole excerpt […]
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Those Who Are Loved
The new Sunday Times #1 bestseller from Victoria Hislop, Those Who Are Loved is set against the backdrop of the German occupation of Greece, the subsequent civil war and a military […]
Hislop awarded four Specsavers Bestseller awards
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 […]
The Greek answer to Paris that you’d never thought to visit
I’ve wanted to visit Thessaloniki, which sits on the northern edge of the Thermaic Gulf, ever since I read Victoria Hislop’s The Thread, a sprawling family saga that starts in 1917 and continues through the war years to the present day. It is largely thanks to her that I now spend so much time in Crete. Her novels aren’t just very readable. They can turn you into a Hellenophile.
Fans in High Places
In an interview with Country Life, Zara Tindall listed a few of her favourite things, and confesses to be a fan of Victoria Hislop: Where is your favourite place in […]
Patra represents the extremes of Greece – sublime and mundane
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 […]
