After his mother’s death, Thomas finds a few clues about his mother’s time as a `military wife’ in 1950’s Cyprus and investigates, making certain assumptions based on his vague childhood memories

When we meet somebody for the first time we assume they are the person they say they are. Do we ever – and should we ever – look more closely ? The Man with Green Fingers is set on...

Rural Cyprus, 1925. Despo is recently married, heavily pregnant and deeply afraid. The twelve days of Christmas are beginning – the time when, according to local folklore, creatures known as kalikantzari come up from Hell to wreak havoc. Meanwhile,...

It is July 1974 and on a bright, sunny morning, the Turkish army has invaded the town of Kyrenia in Cyprus. For many people, this means an end to life as they know it. But for some, it is...

FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE SHORTLISTED NOVEL, THE FISHERMEN Umuahia, Nigeria. Chinonso, a young poultry farmer, sees a woman attempting to jump to her death from a highway bridge. Horrified by her recklessness, Chinonso joins her...

Aphrodite’s Child is the captivating story of a woman’s life-changing summer in Cyprus, where the bonds of family loyalty clash with forbidden love. Emily Blackwell was a teacher, a devoted wife and mother but when she joins her husband...

The island is divided in two, but one man’s love will never be compromised . . . Cyprus, 1955 – a war is raging and four Greek brothers are growing up to the familiar sounds of exploding bombs and...

Bitter Lemons of Cyprus is Lawrence Durrell’s unique account of his time in Cyprus, during the 1950s Enosis movement for freedom of the island from British colonial rule. Winner of the Duff Cooper Memorial Prize, it is a document...

When it was built in the 1950s, nothing symbolised Cyprus entering the modern world like the Ledra Palace Hotel. In Constantia Soteriou’s jewel of a novella, the ambitions and shortcomings of the island’s turbulent twentieth century are played out...

Twenty-year-old Amanda Derrington is on an extended cruise with her uncle when she decides to make a short side trip to the sun-washed island of Cyprus. But even before the ship arrives in port, there is a suspicious death....