I've got Victoria Hislop's The Thread going on the MP3 player at the moment. I love listening to audio books when I'm sewing (can't hear the radio when the machine's going) or when I'm walking the dog without a friend to keep my company and put the world to rights.

Victoria Hislop writes excellent books and this last one is just as good as the others. She really researches the area she writes about and you get such a sense of history happening. This one is particularly interesting to me as an embroiderer because one of the main characters learns her craft in a workshop in Thessaloniki sewing on buttons, beads, ruffles, and finishing off tailor made clothes. Right up my street!

She also covers such things as what happens to the Jews in Greece during the Second World War when the Germans marched in (take a guess) and Greek Orthodox refugees from Turkey, swapped for Greece’s Muslim population - a part of Greece's history I had never heard of before. I'll let you know how I get on with it but I think it might well be my favourite of her three books to date.