interview

November 24, 2013

Two Fervent Philhellenes

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Different as they might be, writers Victoria Hislop and Sofka Zinovieff have at least one thing in common: a love for Greece, which has inspired more than one of their […]

September 2, 2012

Victoria on “Book Club” with James Naughtie.

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Victoria Hislop talks to James Naughtie and readers about her debut novel The Island, a fictional account of a real life leprosy colony, the island of Spinalonga, just off the […]

June 24, 2012

Facebook Webchat

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As many of you will know, the live webchat on Facebook as part of Richard and Judy’s Summer Reads was marred by technical glitches. However, readers posted questions to the […]

May 31, 2012

Victoria discusses “The Thread” with Richard and Judy

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Unfortunately technical problems prevented Victoria’s webchat scheduled for yesterday afternoon, as part of the Richard and Judy Summer Book Club. Those who wishes to send questions Victoria was really disappointed […]

April 23, 2012

Victoria in interview with Anthony Gardner

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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, […]

December 29, 2011

Homage to Thessaloniki

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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 […]

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