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Victoria Hislop
Born
The United Kingdom
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Genre
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The Island
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published
2005
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5 editions
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The Thread
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published
2011
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75 editions
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The Return
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published
2008
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7 editions
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One August Night
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published
2020
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32 editions
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Those Who Are Loved
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published
2019
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The Figurine
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published
2023
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12 editions
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The Sunrise
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published
2014
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55 editions
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Cartes Postales from Greece
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published
2016
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32 editions
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The Last Dance and Other Stories
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published
2012
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4 editions
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One Cretan Evening and Other Stories
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published
2011
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5 editions
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“Like any collection of family photographs, it was a random selection that told only fragments of a story. The real tale would be revealed by the pictures that were missing or never even taken at all, not the ones that had been so carefully framed or packed away neatly in an envelope.”
― The Island
― The Island
“The sun rose, the moon saturated the night sky with its silver light and the stars blazed, indifferent to the events happening below them.”
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“They wound their way through a labyrinth of streets, partly following their noses, partly the orientation of the map. Jardines, Mirasol, Cruz, Puentezuelas, Capuchinas...
Each word held its magic. They were like brushstrokes painting the landscape of the city, each one helping to build up a picture of the whole.”
― The Return
Each word held its magic. They were like brushstrokes painting the landscape of the city, each one helping to build up a picture of the whole.”
― The Return
Polls
Which book would you prefer for the December book of the month?
Samurai William: The Englishman Who Opened Japan
by Giles Milton
With all the adventure, derring-do, and bloodcurdling battle scenes of his earlier book, Nathaniel’s Nutmeg, acclaimed historian Giles Milton dazzles readers with the true story of William Adams—the first Englishman to set foot in Japan (and the inspiration for James Clavell’s bestselling novel Shogun). Beginning with Adams’s startling letter to the East India Company
GRR 3.78
PB £7.09 Kindle £6.99
416 pages
by Giles Milton
With all the adventure, derring-do, and bloodcurdling battle scenes of his earlier book, Nathaniel’s Nutmeg, acclaimed historian Giles Milton dazzles readers with the true story of William Adams—the first Englishman to set foot in Japan (and the inspiration for James Clavell’s bestselling novel Shogun). Beginning with Adams’s startling letter to the East India Company
GRR 3.78
PB £7.09 Kindle £6.99
416 pages
Les enfants de la liberté
by Marc Levy
A remarkable story of struggle and survival in World War II by France's No. 1 bestselling novelist Early in 1942, two young brothers join a Resistance group. All the members of the group are young, most of their families came from elsewhere in Europe or North Africa and all of them are passionately committed to the freedom of France and Europe.
GRR 3.75
PB £8.99 Kindle £5.99
384 pages
by Marc Levy
A remarkable story of struggle and survival in World War II by France's No. 1 bestselling novelist Early in 1942, two young brothers join a Resistance group. All the members of the group are young, most of their families came from elsewhere in Europe or North Africa and all of them are passionately committed to the freedom of France and Europe.
GRR 3.75
PB £8.99 Kindle £5.99
384 pages
The Island
by Victoria Hislop
The Petrakis family lives in the small Greek seaside village of Plaka. Just off the coast is the tiny island of Spinalonga, where the nation's leper colony once was located—a place that has haunted four generations of Petrakis women. There's Eleni, ripped from her husband and two young daughters and sent to Spinalonga in 1939,
GRR 3.88
PB £5.36 Kindle £4.99
480 pages
by Victoria Hislop
The Petrakis family lives in the small Greek seaside village of Plaka. Just off the coast is the tiny island of Spinalonga, where the nation's leper colony once was located—a place that has haunted four generations of Petrakis women. There's Eleni, ripped from her husband and two young daughters and sent to Spinalonga in 1939,
GRR 3.88
PB £5.36 Kindle £4.99
480 pages
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