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The Amulet

The Amulet
  • Author(s): Effrosyni Moschoudi
  • Location(s): Sifnos
  • Genre(s): Humour, Romance
  • Era(s): Modern day

When Katie loses her office job, a gypsy woman hands her an amulet for good luck. Next, she gets hired as hotel receptionist on the Greek island of Sifnos. One of the guests, heart-stoppingly handsome Aggelos, saves the day...

100 days of solitude

100 days of solitude
  • Author(s): Daphne Kapsali
  • Location(s): Sifnos
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Travelogue
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Die-hard Londoner Daphne never expected to find herself on a small Greek island. Snakes and scorpions and weird, hairy locals, sure – but not Inner Peace. Which goes to show how wrong you can be. This is not one...

For Now: Notes on living a deliberate life

For Now: Notes on living a deliberate life
  • Author(s): Daphne Kapsali
  • Location(s): Sifnos
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Contemporary

What does it mean, to live a deliberate life? I use that term, but I’m still trying to figure it out. And I think that’s the point, essentially: that we’re always trying to figure it out. All of it....

Poetry From The Lady of the Pier

Poetry From The Lady of the Pier
  • Author(s): Effrosyni Moschoudi
  • Location(s): Sifnos
  • Genre(s): Novella, Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Joanna boards a flight from JFK to visit the Greek island of Sifnos again after twenty years. All this time, despite the distance and her life’s circumstances, she’s been holding on to precious memories from an old summer love....

Sifnos Chronicles 2: more greek island tales

Sifnos Chronicles 2: more greek island tales
  • Author(s): Sharon Blomfield
  • Location(s): Sifnos
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Travelogue
  • Era(s): present day

A taverna … a monstrous platter of fish … then a second. We didn’t order these, don’t really like fish. But they’re a gift, the cook is watching and the giver is too. Life in a secluded Greek fishing...

The Greek House

The Greek House
  • Author(s): Christopher Brechneff, Tim Lovejoy
  • Location(s): Sifnos
  • Genre(s): Travelogue
  • Era(s): 1970s till present day

It’s 1972 and the twenty-one year old artist author arrives on the island of Sifnos in the Cyclades in search of himself. On this primitive, far-flung island, where not even ferries can dock and roads are little more than...

The Sifnos Chronicles I: tales from a greek isle

The Sifnos Chronicles I: tales from a greek isle
  • Author(s): Sharon Blomfield
  • Location(s): Sifnos
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Travelogue
  • Era(s): present day

Quirky and beguiling, often unwittingly funny, and always so utterly kind, the people of the Greek island of Sifnos charm and fascinate. They roar past on motorbikes with whole families squeezed on top, plus whatever earthly goods they can...

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