On January 23, 2019, Victoria Hislop joined Panos Karnezis, Patricia Barbeito, David Ricks, and Roderick Beaton for a workshop to discuss issues of translating Modern Greek literature: what their work […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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.
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 […]
