What happens in the field stays in the field. Or does it? After the disastrous way her first archaeological dig ended, graduate student Olivia Sanchez abandoned her dreams of working in the field. Now, thanks to a last-minute teaching...

Cyprus 1974 Turkish forces invade Kyrenia and parachute into Nicosia International Airport. In London a high-ranking RAF officer has been found dead in a seedy hotel and on the wall next to the body is the initials of the...

It was an unique journey – a 600 mile trek on foot around Cyprus, in the last year of the island’s peace. Colin Thubron writes about it and with great immediacy, intertwining myth, history and personal anecdote. What emerges...

Through a series of vignettes, we see the hopes, struggles, and dreams of Cypriots on their island from 1937-1981. We follow struggles for independence from the Brits, to patriotism, and ultimately, migration and return. And we meet a deity,...

Life had lost its sweetness. Socrates felt as if he had eaten an accursed apple and was, like Adam, suddenly prone to emotions he had never before experienced – fear, loneliness and shame. For Socrates, growing up in a...

A first collection of short stories by award-winning Cypriot poet and writer Nora Nadjarian. For the title story ‘Ledra Street’, Nadjarian created a fictional fatal accident whose absurdity mirrors the tragic lack of logic with which a street in...

Cyprus ticks all the boxes. Sun. Sea. Cheap food and drink. Friendly, smiling people. How would you like to live there? Is this island heaven too good to be true? Surely there can be no darker side? Is there...

Can you be whole when your world is in halves? In the midst of an identity crisis, twenty-one-year-old Daniela retraces her roots to Cyprus. As whispers resound through her grandparents’ home, she senses their anguish at Turkey’s invasion of...

In Othello, Shakespeare creates a powerful drama of a marriage that begins with fascination (between the exotic Moor Othello and the Venetian lady Desdemona), with elopement, and with intense mutual devotion and that ends precipitately with jealous rage and...

A BEAUTIFUL RESORT It looked like the perfect getaway. A luxury resort with endless pools, a gorgeous golden beach, and a kids’ club that is every parent’s dream. But for Amanda, a British detective in desperate need of a...