Victoria Hislop
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| Occupation | Novelist |
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Victoria Hislop (born Victoria Hamson) is an award winning British author. She read English at St Hilda's College, Oxford and worked in publishing and as a journalist before becoming an author.
Her first novel The Island, which the Sunday Express hailed as the new Captain Corelli's Mandolin, was a Number 1 Bestseller in the UK, its success in part the result of having been selected by the Richard and Judy Book Club for their 2006 Summer Reads. She married journalist and Private Eye editor, Ian Hislop on 16th April 1988. They have two children and live in Kent.
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[edit] Works
[edit] Novels
- The Island (2005)
- The Return (2008 forthcoming)
[edit] Non fiction
- Sink or Swim: The Self-help Book for Men Who Never Read Them (2002) (with Duncan Goodhew])
[edit] External links
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