From Victoria Hislop’s immersive sequel to Reality And Other Stories by John Lanchester, a profound novel by Sigrid Nunez and Stuart Turton’s latest, this week’s best new fiction By Madeleine Feeny and Anthony Cummins and Anthony Gardner and John Williams Published: 22:01 BST, 17 October 2020 | Updated: 22:01 BST, 17 October 2020 One August … Read more
She had scarcely travelled anywhere at all. Yet, recently separated from my father and keen for adventure, my mother, Mary, decided to whisk my sister and me to Athens. It was the late 1970s. I was 17 years old — and promptly fell in love at first sight. Not with a dark-eyed local boy, but … Read more
She likes to celebrate the publication of each of her books with ‘a cold glass of champagne —with lots of bubbles’. But best-selling novelist Victoria Hislop may feel in the mood for a bottle of retsina this morning — if not a magnum. For I can disclose that she has just been awarded honorary Greek … Read more