Victoria Hislop

Victoria Hislop (née Hamson; born 1959) is an English author.^[1]

Personal

Born in Bromley, Kent (now part of London), she was raised in Tonbridge, Kent, and attended Tonbridge Grammar School.^[2] She studied English at St Hilda's College, Oxford^[3] and worked in publishing and as a journalist before becoming an author. She lived in London for over 20 years, and now lives in Sissinghurst.^[2]

She married Private Eye editor Ian Hislop on 16 April 1988 in Oxford. They have two children, Emily Helen (born 1990) and William David (born 1993).^[4]

Career

Her novel The Island (2005), which the Sunday Express hailed as "the new Captain Corelli's Mandolin", was a number one bestseller in Britain, its success in part the result of having been selected by the Richard & Judy Book Club for their 2006 Summer Reads. To Nisi (The Island) was filmed as a TV series by the Greek TV channel MEGA.

In 2009, she donated the short story Aflame in Athens to Oxfam's "Ox-Tales" project, four collections of British stories written by 38 authors. Her story was published in the "Fire" collection.^[5] Hislop has a particular affection for Greece, visits the country often for research and other reasons, and has a second home on Crete.^[6]

Works

Novels

• The Island (2005)
• The Return (2008)
• The Thread (2011)
• The Sunrise (2014)

Short stories

• One Cretan Evening (2011)
  • 'One Cretan Evening' (2008)
  • 'The Pine Tree' (2008)
  • 'By The Fire' (2009)
  • 'The Warmest Christmas Ever' (2007)
  • 'Aflame in Athens' (2009)

Non fiction

• Sink or Swim: The Self-help Book for Men Who Never Read Them (2002) (with Duncan Goodhew)

References

External links

• Official website