‘Call me Mel’ takes over Stavroula’s taverna kitchen, with his trusty sidekick Fotini adding something extra to the food. Mail order Masha attracts the eye of an oily Kazakh who’s in cahoots with the corrupt mayor, whilst her old...

A powerful novel of the saving grace of language and human connection, from the celebrated author of The Vegetarian In a classroom in Seoul, a young woman watches her Greek language teacher at the blackboard. She tries to speak...

Samuel Carr leaves Cheshire in 1827, a young man eager for adventure but full of apprehension, why is he leaving the safety of his yeoman farmhouse? Unable to accept advice from a fellow passenger on the sailing ship he...

Samuel, now a father, and accompanied by his servants, Cuthbert his Anglo/Irish man-servant and the four young Greeks whom he has taken under his wing, arrives in Nauplia (Nafplio in the Peloponnese) in 1829, just as this small city...

Samuel Carr’s great grandchild is born on a windy night March 1906. The first part of the story is her heartwarming tale of growing up in a newly built semi-detached house in Timperley Cheshire, of her early Edwardian childhood...

Samuel, now a father, and accompanied by his servants, Cuthbert his Anglo/Irish man-servant and the four young Greeks whom he has taken under his wing, arrives in Nauplia (Nafplio in the Peloponnese) in 1829, just as this small city...

Rosalind, whose life has never been easy, seems to tap into a rich seam of luck when she finds papers relating to her ancestor Samuel Carr and links to her former lovers, yet perhaps even at the end she...

Following the many paths of their ancestors, especially Samuel the Philhellene who came to the Peloponnese as Greece declared its independence in 1827 and whose son was born in Greece thereby creating five generations drawn back to the land...

A twist of fate sends this American artist to Greece on a painting workshop in 1982. After a luxurious swim in the Aegean, an epiphany in an olive grove inspires her to continue her life’s journey with art –...

When 12 year-old William Devoy s Irish father sends him from New York to a new Dublin boarding school, St Enda s, William imagines having an adventure. It is 1911; the next five years will bring William, and Ireland,...