A love born during the years of the Occupation reaches a peak of intensity....

Here is the portrait of an extraordinary - yet in many ways typical - English couple, as seen through the eyes of a fascinated, ouzo-guzzling Greek narrator reminiscing on a sundrenched beach....

Andreas Franghias novel "The Courtyard" gives us a picture of Athens not found in the guidebooks....

1339....

Newlyweds arrive at an old hotel where they are to spend their honeymoon....

Two friends trapped in adolescence....

The protagonist in each of these stories is a solitary individual, alienated from society, haunted Dy memurira, fascinated by the disgusting, obsessed with the relationship between love and death, and fetishistically attached to certain objects that bear the traces of traumatic experiences....

Who was Alexius Comnenus who would wage war in East and West to save Byzantium from the edge of the abyss? Who were the woman who loved him? Who was it who tried to poison him? Why did his daughter, Anna Comnena, hate her brother, John, the co-Emperor? Why did his wife, Irene Duca, promote Nicephorus Bryennius for the throne? People and events; failures, tears and sorrows, hopes, visions that faded, joys evaporated, meanness and passion....

A story of the passion between a man of fifty "plus" and a girl of nineteen, a seemingly not unusual situation were it not for the fact that everything that takes place between the two "protagonists* is constantly and faithfully recorded by someone: the mature "grey" woman who is the man s past and who chronicles the lovers passion with adoration and respect....

They re the gang that can t shoot straight: tough-guy wannabes straight out of a Greek-subtitled version of Thieves Like Us, downmarket motorcycle punks (no Hell s angels these), dead-end kids from the urban depths with foulmouthed girlfriends and parents as remote as prosperity....

Had I a sixteen-year-old daughter I would contrive to have her read this book in secret....

Nitsa Gazeles is a young Athenian girl from a good family – a sensitive creature with all the ardour of youth, the curiosity of innocent girlhood and the joy of life....

Five men and one woman found asylum at the retirement home of Athens....

This work was inspired by a dream the writer he had while sleeping one night....

This book is about the story of a young American adventurer, the son of a billionaire....