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 on the set of the TV adaptation of “The Island” and about why, despite her bestselling books, she still doesn’t call herself a novelist… This […]
“To Nisi”, Mega TV’s 26-part adaptation of Victoria’s novel “The Island”, is the most successful series in the history of Greek television, watched by almost three-quarters of the population. Now, its success has moved further afield with Mega selling broadcast rights to the series to Germany, Turkey and Croatia, where broadcasting will begin later in […]
The phenomenal success of the Greek TV production “This Island” (To Nisi) continues. The 26 part series has now been sold in a number of countries and is currently being broadcast in neighbouring Turkey. Broadcast rights for the production have been sold to half a dozen countries including Germany, Cyprus and Croatia, Victoria visited the […]
Bestselling author Victoria Hislop rejects an offer from Hollywood to turn her debut novel into a blockbuster. Keen to preserve the integrity of the book and to give something back to the Mediterranean island on which it is based, Hislop has instead allowed one of Greece’s main television channels to dramatise her story for a […]
