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'A moving and absorbing holiday read that pulls at the heartstrings' Evening Standard The acclaimed million-copy number one bestseller and winner of Richard & Judy's Summer Read 2006. Victoria Hislop tells a dramatic tale of four generations, illicit love, violence and leprosy, from the thirties...

Multi-million copy bestselling author Victoria Hislop returns with the captivating tale of one woman's quest to come to terms with her family's brutal past. In her irresistible new novel, Sunday Times No 1 bestselling author Victoria Hislop shines a light on the questionable acquisition of...

Victoria Hislop joins Gabriel Fleming in the Audible Studios to discuss her latest novel.

*Pre-order THE FIGURINE, the brand-new novel from Victoria Hislop. Coming September 2023.* 'A return to Hislop's thyme-scented, Aegean-lapped fictional Greece' The Sunday Times Beloved author Victoria Hislop returns to Crete in this long-anticipated sequel to her multi-million-copy Number One...

In the golden city of Famagusta, Greek and Turkish Cypriots alike enjoy a life of good fortune. Invasion comes without warning, bringing chaos and terror. As forty thousand people flee their homes in panic, Famagusta becomes a ghost town. But not everyone will find it so easy to leave...

Dimitri Komninos is born as fire devastates Thessaloniki, where Christians, Jews and Muslims live side by side. Five years later, Katerina Sarafoglou loses her mother when their home is destroyed by the Turkish army. She flees across the sea, alone, to Thessaloniki. When she and Dimitri meet...

INSPIRED BY TRUTH, THE STORY THAT HAS CAPTIVATED THE WORLD. This was not the start of a short trip to deliver supplies. It was the beginning of a one-way journey to start a new life. Life on a leper colony. Life on Spinalonga. Fifty years later, making a life-changing journey of her own, Alexis...

Le 25 août 1957, la colonie de lépreux de l'île de Spinalonga ferme ses portes. Maria retourne à Plaka, en Crète, avec son mari, le docteur Kyritsis. Mais, alors que la fête pour célébrer leur retour bat son plein, sa sœur Anna est assassinée par Andreas, son mari, lorsqu'il découvre qu'elle a pour amant son cousin Manolis. Ce drame aura des effets dévastateurs pour toute la communauté de Plaka. Manolis quitte la Crète pour la Grèce continentale ; loin de son île, il s'efforce de se reconstruire. Andreas tente d'expier son crime en prison.

Cartes Postales from Greece is an extraordinary new book from Victoria Hislop, the Sunday Times Number One bestselling author of The Island, The Return, The Thread, and The Sunrise. It is fiction in full colour - magical and unique. 'Victoria Hislop writes so vividly about the Med, you can...

Une odyssée familiale puissante et passionnante. Après le succès de L'Île des oubliés, le grand retour de Victoria Hislop à la saga historique. Athènes, milieu des années 1940. Récemment libérée de l'occupation allemande, la Grèce fait face à de violentes tensions internes. Confrontée aux injustices qui touchent ses proches, la jeune Themis décide de s'engager auprès des communistes et se révèle prête à tout.

'Lyrical, twisty short stories' Evening Standard A collection of stunning short stories from the million-copy bestselling author of The Island. Three of these stories were previously published in Victoria Hislop's ebook collection, One Cretan Evening. In ten powerful stories, Victoria Hislop...

Granada's cobbled streets resonate with music and secrets and Sonia Cameron is here to dance. She knows nothing of the city's past. But in a quiet café, a chance conversation and a collection of photographs draws her into the tale of Spain's devastating civil war. Seventy years earlier, the...

The gripping new novel by Sunday Times Number One bestseller Victoria Hislop is set against the backdrop of the German occupation of Greece, the subsequent civil war and a military dictatorship, all of which left deep scars. Themis is part of a family bitterly divided by politics and, as a young...

'Aims to open the eyes and tug the heartstrings' Independent An atmospheric, vibrant and moving tale of pain and passion at the heart of war-torn Spain from Victoria Hislop, the million-copy bestselling author of The Island. Beneath the majestic towers of the Alhambra, Granada's cobbled streets...

A celebration of adult literature and reading. The whole book industry, including booksellers, librarians and publishers, were invited come together and pick out their favourite titles to be included the final list of 25 books by authors from the UK and Ireland. The final list included fiction, poetry and memoirs, among others. There were some best sellers, some classics and some lesser known. Interviews with Graeme Simsion, Lucy Fleming, Jojo Moyes, Lemn Sissay, Mark Haddon, Tracy Chevalier, Victoria Hislop, Rupert Thomson and Andrew Motion.

Derrière les tours majestueuses de l'Alhambra, les ruelles de Grenade résonnent de musique et de secrets. Venue de Londres pour prendre des cours de danse, Sonia ignore tout du passé de la ville quand elle arrive. Mais une simple conversation au café El Barril va la plonger dans la tragique histoire de la cité de García Lorca et de la famille qui tenait les lieux.

Une jeune Anglaise, Alexis, ignore tout de l'histoire de sa famille maternelle, tant sa mère, Sophia, fait peser sur le passé une chape de plomb qui empoisonne leurs relations. Pour dénouer ce nœud obscur, Alexis décide de se rendre dans le village natal de Sophia, en Crète. Et découvre que juste en face se trouve Spinalonga, l'île où l'on déportait les lépreux. Quand elle apprend que son arrière-grand-mère y serait morte, elle décide d'élucider tous ces mystères.