Victoria Hislop and One Show presenter Alex Jones talk with Harriett Gilbert about their favourite books. Alex Jones has chosen The Girls by Lisa Jewell, while Harriett’s pick is Days of Abandonment by the writer everyone’s talking about, who goes by the pseudonym Elena Ferrante. And what do three women who aren’t keen on Virginia Woolf make of Victoria’s choice, Michael Cunningham’s The Hours?
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Victoria Hislop introduces her brand new novel, Cartes Postales, an extraordinary new book from the Sunday Times Number One bestselling author of The Island. It is fiction in full colour – magical and unique.
Watch the trailer for Victoria Hislop’s brand new novel, Cartes Postales. Beloved, bestselling author Victoria Hislop’s Cartes Postales from Greece is fiction illustrated with photographs that make this journey around Greece, already alive in the imagination, linger forever in the mind.
Sir Ranulph Fiennes, Margaret Drabble, Victoria Hislop and Ian McMillan are among the famous names taking part in this year’s Chester Literature Festival.
The October festival also features appearances from award-winning and best-selling authors including James Kelman, Laura Barnett, Jessie Burton, and crime writer Ann Cleeves.
And there are also events featuring comedian Sara Pascoe, poets Lemn Sissay and Henry Normal, 21-year-old Cheshire-born adventurer Alex Staniforth, ex-MPs Matthew Parris and Paddy Ashdown, and playwright and Edinburgh Fringe veteran John Osborne.
Meanwhile music will take centre stage on October 10 with the day dedicated to the late David Bowie.
His friend Lesley-Ann Jones will tell the personal story of her time living with him and commentator and journalist Paul Morley will talk about the impact of Bowie’s art in The Age of Bowie.
Chester Literature Festival is produced by Storyhouse, and boasts more than 60 events over 16 days, with many taking place at its hub in Chester Town Hall.
For more information, visit the festival website
Dorchester Literary Festival is excited to announce that Victoria Hislop, multi-million-copy bestselling author of The Island and The Sunrise will be joining us on Friday 21st October to talk about her new novel Cartes Postales from Greece
Illustrated with photographs this imaginative story brings a fictional account of a man’s odyssey through Greece to life and will linger in the memory.
For more information, visit the festival website.
The Island, Victoria Hislop’s internationally bestselling debut novel has been chosen by readers as one of WH Smith’s Best Paperbacks of All Time, joining works as dazzlingly diverse as To Kill a Mockingbird and Pride and Prejudice. You can see a full list of the books chosen by readers here.
WHSmith says of their Best Paperbacks of All Time
Paperbacks offer us a world where we can do things we’d never imagine, meet people who are larger than life and experience events that will change our perspective on life forever. A good paperback reels you in and keeps you gripped until the last page, but a great paperback stays with you long after you’ve put that book down.
Every reader has experienced a book like that, and we like to think that every reader is searching for the next book to leave an impression like that on them. And so we took to Facebook and Twitter to ask our followers for the paperbacks that made an impact on them, the ones that they’re constantly recommending to friends – the best paperbacks of all time.
The results are in, and we received a phenomenal number of votes, including everything from books that ignited your love for reading, to controversial books that changed your view of the world, to beautifully written stories that lingered in your imagination. We’ve counted up the votes and below we have your top 100 paperbacks of all time. Take a look to see if your favourite made the top 100, and browse for the next book that could make an impact on you.
