Victoria Hislop (née Hamson; born 1959) is an English author.

[3] She studied English at St Hilda's College, Oxford,[4] and worked in publishing and as a journalist before becoming an author.

[5] Her novel The Island (2005) was a number-one bestseller in Britain, its success in part the result of having been selected by the Richard & Judy Book Club for their 2006 Summer Reads.

She visits the country often for research and other reasons, and has a second home on the island of Crete.

[7] Victoria married Private Eye editor Ian Hislop on 16 April 1988 in Oxford; the couple have two children: Emily Helen (born 1990) and William David (born 1993).