2. Homage to Thessaloniki

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    December 29, 2011
    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 published, Mike Sweet talks to the British author (15 Dec 2011, from Neoskosmos.com) After a career in PR and journalism,...
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    ‘The Thread,’ a tale of survival and bonding

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    December 12, 2011
    British author Victoria Hislop talks about her latest novel, inspired by 20th-century events in Thessaloniki By Sandy Tsantaki Greeks are likely most familiar with Victoria Hislop as the writer of “The Island,” an award-winning novel that was adapted for a TV series by Greece’s Mega Channel last year. While reading...
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    Recent Reviews

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    November 7, 2011
    Guardian (11 November 2011, reviewed by Laura Barnett) Thessaloniki, May 1923: A ship docks in the harbour packed with Greek Orthodox refugees from Turkey, newly swapped for Greece’s Muslim population in one of the most painful and extensive exchanges of peoples ever attempted. Among them is five-year-old Katerina Sarafoglou; separated...
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    Victoria talks to BBC’s “Meet the Author”

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    November 6, 2011
    Victoria talks to the BBC’s Nick Higham about why she decided to base the story in Greece and its second largest city, the port of Thessaloniki. She also also talks about why she waited until her forties to start writing fictional novels and how it is a lifestyle change from...
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    Victoria talks to Mariella Frostrup on Open Book

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    October 30, 2011
    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...
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