1. 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, ‘and this hot wind unlike anything I’d felt in Britain – this unbelievable warmth.’ She was fourteen years old, and...
  2. 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 published, Mike Sweet talks to the British author (15 Dec 2011, from Neoskosmos.com) After a career in PR and journalism,...
  3. ‘The Thread,’ a tale of survival and bonding

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    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...