The full programme, announced today, will also feature leading writers from a range of genres, including former Children’s Laureate and author of War Horse Michael Morpurgo, historian Alison Weir, novelists Louise Doughty and Simon Scarrow and journalist Cathy Rentzenbrink, whose memoir The Last Act of Love recently topped national sales lists.
Victoria Hislop’s first novel, The Island, held the number one slot in the Sunday Times paperback charts for eight weeks and has sold over two million copies worldwide.
She will appear at the festival to discuss her latest novel Cartes Postales from Greece, due for publication in September.
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