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Literary Sark

Victor Hugo, Mervyn Peake and the books that put Sark on the page.

Writers have visited Sark, lived here, set fiction here and written from inside island life. This collection separates those different connections, from Victor Hugo and The Toilers of the Sea to Mervyn Peake, John Oxenham and Sibyl Hathaway.

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AI-generated illustration of nineteenth-century books beside a window looking out to sea, Sark, Channel Islands
  1. 01 Sea stacks and a rocky shore on Sark, Channel Islands

    Victor Hugo, Sark and The Toilers of the Sea

    Victor Hugo visited Sark in 1857, before The Toilers of the Sea appeared: the visit, the novel, and its 160th anniversary in 2026.

    14 September 2026 路 Nadia

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