Literary Lunch with Victoria Hislop
Hotel du Vin, Tunbridge Wells, Thursday
June 11 at 12.30pm
Tickets £39.50 including
Champagne reception and two course lunch.
Bookings: contact Maria Lemont,
60a Westwood Road, Tunbridge Wells TN4 8TP or phone 01892 549452
Interview with This is Sussex, May
29, 2009
"Sissinghurst-based novelist Victoria
Hislop has become a publishing phenomenon in the
space of just a few short years.
Her debut novel,
2005's The Island, held the number one slot in
The Sunday Times paperback chart for eight consecutive
weeks and has since sold more than a million copies.
The 49-year-old's follow-up, The Return, has also
enjoyed a spell at the top of the best-seller lists
since its release in paperback last month.
The book is set during the Spanish Civil War of
the 1930s and explores the conflict through the
eyes of the fictional Ramirez family. Victoria
spent time researching the story in Spain and found
it a very delicate subject for Spaniards to this
day.
The mother-of-two – a former travel journalist
and wife of broadcaster and Private Eye editor
Ian Hislop – spoke to Go! about the book
ahead of her appearance at a literary lunch as
part of the Tunbridge Wells Music Festival.
Do you enjoy speaking at literary lunches?
"I do enjoy them. Writers
spend a long time locked inside a room and inside
their own heads and I like meeting people so
it's a very good opportunity. I genuinely like
people's feedback, their comments and the questions
they ask."
What will you speak about?
"I will be talking about
the Spanish Civil War in a historical way. I
think people are sometimes surprised as they
don't know that's what they're going to get,
but that's the background to my novel The Return.
It was a three year period of conflict and a
lot of English people don't know that much about
it."
(read more)
Private Passions (09 May 2009)
Victoria
talks to "The Scotsman" about "The Return"
keeping secrets, and researching her thrid novel…
"VICTORIA HISLOP certainly knows
HOW to keep a secret. No mean feat, considering
she's married to a man who has made it his business
to uncover cracking news stories about the great
and good doing bad things which they would prefer
to remain hidden.The wife of the more famous Ian,
editor of Private Eye and panellist on the popular
BBC1 show Have I Got News
For You, Hislop admits: "I
am rather good at keeping secrets, especially from
Ian."
Indeed, she's currently ferreting
away all sorts of things from her nosy husband,
including the small library of books she's reading
to research her third novel…". Read
More…

April 2009
On April 16 2009, The Return, Victoria's
much bestselling second novel of passion and secrets
of the Spanish Civil War is published in paperback.
"…Hislop's history is reliable; her
judgement sound; and the destiny of the Ramirez
clan both holds and moves us. The Return aims to
open the eyes of readers who mostly won't have
read the voluminous literature of the war. The
battle of memory against forgetting has to be fought
on all fronts, and Hislop deserves a campaign medal
for her efforts."
Boyd Tonkin, The Independent,
April 9 read more…
February 2009
Victoria Hislop joined
a list of International authors taking part
in the Emirates
Airline International Festival of Literature in
Dubai 1 - 26 February, 2009. For more information
on the festival,
click
here

Audio and Video
Watch Victoria discussing "The Return" at the Oldie Literary
Lunch

Listen to Victoria discuss her novel "The Return" with Jenny
Murray
Woman's
Hour
Victoria talks to Jenny Murray about Flamenco, the
Spanish Civil War, and the "hidden histories" which inspire
"The Island" and her new novel "The Return". CLICK
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