Victoria Hislop is most famous for her first two books The Island and The Return which have been translated into 30 different languages.
The Island is a romance and set against the background of a 20th Century Leper colony on Spinalonga off the North East coast of Crete and reached the no1 best seller list in the UK for 8 weeks with a series based on the book being shown in Greece with over 3/4 of the population there watching.
For her third novel she has returned to Greece for The Thread which is based in the city of Thessaloniki and covers the relationship of Dimitri and Katerina against the background of fire, population shift, earthquake, occupation and civil war.
Hislop prides herself in making history interesting and digestable, combining facts with a genunie and interesting narrative you learn without realising it.
Mrs Hislop will be appearing at the Wesley Chapel Harrogate as part of the Harrogate International Festival on July 6th at 7.30pm. At time of publishing there were still tickets avaliable from
www.harrogateinternationalfestival.com or 01423 502116
(Victoria Hislop is also the wife of Ian Hislop editor of Private Eye)
(The Wesley Chapel is only 7 minutes walk from The Camberley www.camberleyguestaccommodation.com)
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