Victoria Hislop
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For World Book Night 2013 at the Queen Elizabeth Hall in London, the novelist Victoria Hislop read from her book The Island.
Victoria Hislop later spoke exclusively to HiBROW about the pleasures and challenges of writing, how she writes, and the books that mean the most to her, as well as her approach to writing fiction based around historical events - coming soon on HiBROW.
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- Sarah Louise Young as Cabaret Whore
- Sarah Louise Young as Cabaret Whore
- Sarah Louise Young as Cabaret Whore
- Sarah Louise Young as Cabaret Whore
- Sarah Louise Young as Cabaret Whore
- Sarah Louise Young as Cabaret Whore
- Sarah Louise Young as Cabaret Whore
- Sarah Louise Young as Cabaret Whore
- Sarah Louise Young as Cabaret Whore
- Sarah Louise Young as Cabaret Whore
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