Cartes Postales from Greece The runaway Sunday Times bestseller
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Om bidragsyterne
Victoria Hislop is the multi-million copy bestselling author of eight books, including The Island, The Return, The Thread, The Sunrise, Those Who are Loved, The Last Dance and Other Stories and Cartes Postales from Greece. Her books have been translated into forty languages. Her most recent novel, One August Night, returned to Crete in the long-anticipated sequel to The Island and spent twelve weeks in the Top 10 hardback fiction charts.
Victoria was executive producer on the adaptations of The Island, Cartes Postales and One August Night for Greek television - and recently took part in Dancing with the Stars, also on Greek television.
Victoria divides her time between England and Greece and, in 2020, was granted honorary citizenship by the President of Greece. She was recently granted an Honorary Doctorate by the University of Sheffield and is patron of Knossos 2025, which has raised funds to rebuild the new research centre at one of Greece's most significant archaeological sites. She is also on the British Committee for the Reunification of the Parthenon Marbles.
When it comes to tales about Greece, Hislop is an undisputed queen - and this is easily her best novel yet
Heat </i>on<i> Cartes Postales from Greece
A lavish love letter to Greece
Sunday Mirror </i>on<i> Cartes Postales from Greece
Hislop's passionate love of the country breathes from every page
Daily Mail </i>on<i> Cartes Postales from Greece
This beautiful novel is illustrated with gorgeous photos to really bring the country to life
Fabulous, Sun on Sunday </i>on<i> Cartes Postales from Greece
A tender love story that will make you wish your own summer holiday wasn't a distant memory
Red online </i>on<i> Cartes Postales from Greece
A beautiful tale of love, struggle and redemption
- Cathy Rentzenbrink, Prima </i>on<i> Cartes Postales from Greece
A discerning fly-on-the-wall view of the country, a heady mix of poetic licence and gravitas. . . Greece works its magic in Hislop's latest ode to the country
The Lady </i>on<i> Cartes Postales from Greece
A tantalising glimpse of a country far removed from the usual tourist resorts and beaches
Mail on Sunday </i>on<i> Cartes Postales from Greece
Impressively imagined . . . make[s] you want to jump on a plane to Athens
The Sunday Times </i>on<i> Cartes Postales from Greece
With sumptuous photography - this is a lavish love letter to Greece
Sunday Mirror </i>on<i> Cartes Postales from Greece
Hislop has woven colour photographs of the stunning Greek landscape into her narrative. I enjoyed being transported to Greece on Hislop's wings of words and vivid descriptions
Express </i>on<i> Cartes Postales from Greece
Victoria Hislop's love affair with Greece continues, bringing the country triumphantly to life . . . [her] imaginative and compelling stories paint a remarkable portrait of Greece and its history
Sunday Express S Magazine </i>on<i> Cartes Postales from Greece
This is storytelling at its best and just like a tapestry, when each thread is sewn into place, so emerge the layers and history of relationships past and present
Sunday Express </i>on<i> The Thread
A vivid, moving and absorbing tale
Observer </i>on<i> The Island
Peopled with memorable characters, this is a powerful, moving and beautifully told novel of loyalty and love, hope and fear
Choice </i> magazine on <i>The Thread
A beautiful tale of enduring love and unthinking prejudice
Express </i>on<i> The Island
Hislop carefully evokes the lives of Cretans between the wars and during German occupation, but most commendable is her compassionate portrayal of the outcasts
Guardian </i>on<i> The Island
Passionately engaged with its subject...meticulously researched
The Sunday Times </i>on<i> The Island
Victoria Hislop writes so vividly about the Med, you can almost feel the scorching heat. An absorbing tale about family, friendship, loyalty and betrayal, set during a violent period in the history of Cyprus
Good Housekeeping </i>on<i> The Sunrise
Adroitly plotted and deftly characterised, Hislop's gripping novel tells the stories of ordinary Greek and Turkish families trying to preserve their humanity in a maelstrom of deception, betrayal and ethnic hatred
Mail on Sunday </i>on<i> The Sunrise
Hislop hasn't of course been into Famagusta - no one may, even now - but has stood near the barbed wire and imagined what life was like there, then and now, with her usual gift for presenting bits of history most of us are unfamiliar with from a fictional point of view
Independent on Sunday </i>on<i> The Sunrise
Vibrant... Hislop brings history to life in this compelling tale
Tatler </i>on<i> The Sunrise
Fascinating and moving... Hislop writes unforgettably about Cyprus and its people
The Times </i>on<i> The Sunrise
Intelligent and immersive... Hislop's incisive narrative weaves a vast array of fact through a poignant, compelling family saga
The Sunday Times </i>on<i> The Sunrise
A sweeping, magnificently detailed and ambitious saga that wrestles with the turbulence of the period Hislop covers
The Sunday Times </i>on<i> The Thread
Produktdetaljer
Om bidragsyterne
Victoria Hislop is the multi-million copy bestselling author of eight books, including The Island, The Return, The Thread, The Sunrise, Those Who are Loved, The Last Dance and Other Stories and Cartes Postales from Greece. Her books have been translated into forty languages. Her most recent novel, One August Night, returned to Crete in the long-anticipated sequel to The Island and spent twelve weeks in the Top 10 hardback fiction charts.
Victoria was executive producer on the adaptations of The Island, Cartes Postales and One August Night for Greek television - and recently took part in Dancing with the Stars, also on Greek television.
Victoria divides her time between England and Greece and, in 2020, was granted honorary citizenship by the President of Greece. She was recently granted an Honorary Doctorate by the University of Sheffield and is patron of Knossos 2025, which has raised funds to rebuild the new research centre at one of Greece's most significant archaeological sites. She is also on the British Committee for the Reunification of the Parthenon Marbles.