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August 6, 2024. Victoria Hislop’s The Figurine has become the UK Official UK Top 50 number one in its mass-market fiction paperback launch week, just edging out Claire Douglas’ The Wrong Sister (Penguin), which had held the pole position for two out of the previous three weeks. (from The Bookseller) Victoria Hislop’s The Figurine has ...
Sep 27, 2011 · About Victoria. Victoria Hislop studied English Literature at Oxford University and afterwards worked in book publishing, PR and journalism. During her time as a journalist, she wrote on education and travel for national newspapers and magazines and was sent on assignments around the world. Inspired by a visit to Spinalonga, the abandoned Greek ...
Sep 28, 2011 · Victoria Hislop’s first novel The Island is an international bestseller. It was selected for the Richard and Judy Summer Read, and won Victoria the “Newcomer of the Year” Award at the Galaxy British Book Awards 2007. Keen to preserve the integrity of the book and to give something back to the Mediterranean island on which it is based ...
Aug 22, 2021 · The Figurine. Maria’s Island. One August Night. Those Who Are Loved. The Sunrise. The Thread. The Island. The Return. The Last Dance.
Sep 28, 2011 · In 1936, an army coup led by Franco shatters the country’s fragile peace, and in the heart of Granada the family witnesses the atrocities of conflict. Divided by politics and tragedy, everyone must take a side, fighting a personal battle as Spain rips itself apart. Captivating and deeply moving, Victoria Hislop’s second novel is as ...
Jul 23, 2014 · Adroitly plotted and deftly characterised, Hislop’s gripping novel tells the stories of ordinary Greek and Turkish families trying to preserve their humanity in a maelstrom of deception, betrayal and ethnic hatred (Mail on Sunday) One of the best things about this novel is the way Hislop depicts the growing teamwork, love, respect, and trust ...
Aug 6, 2024 · Victoria August 6, 2024. Victoria Hislop’s The Figurine has become the UK Official UK Top 50 number one in its mass-market fiction paperback launch week, just edging out Claire Douglas’ The Wrong Sister (Penguin), which had held the pole position for two out of the previous three weeks. (from The Bookseller)
Sep 29, 2011 · Victoria Hislop’s eagerly-awaited third novel, “The Thread”, was published by Headline Books in October, 2011. In it she returns to Greece, taking as her backdrop the troubled history of the city of Thessaloniki in a story that spans almost a century, beginning with the Great Thessaloniki Fire of 1917 which almost destroyed the city, burning for almost two days and razing 9,500 houses.
Aug 6, 2024 · In the library of London’s Hellenic Centre, Victoria Hislop is telling me how filming Dancing with the Stars – the Greek version of Strictly Come Dancing – made her cry. ‘It was an amazing experience, but hardcore,’ says the bestselling author, whose ten books have sold more than ten million copies worldwide, all but one set in Greece.
Jul 5, 2019 · An interview with Victoria Hislop. July 5, 2019. Following on from the success of The Island, The Sunrise and Cartes Postales from Greece, Victoria Hislop’s latest novel, Those Who Are Loved, is set against the backdrop of the German occupation of Greece in World War II, the subsequent civil war and military dictatorship.
