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4 Greek Women: Love Poems (Greek Women Poets Series)
- £15.00
- A collection of poems by 4 Greek women: Eleni Fourtouni (who edited and translated the poems into English); Victoria Theodorou; Angeliki Pavlopoulou; Katerina Angelaki-Rooke. Dedicated to 'all the Aegean Women'
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Mother Land (SIGNED)
- £60.00
- Set in the late 1960s, Mother Land describes life on an Aegean island, seen through the eyes of a nine-year-old boy. It is the first-hand account of a Greek boy, born on a Turkish island, trying to make sense of the escalating tension between Greek and Turk, Muslim and Christian,…
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O Men of Athens
- £18.00
- Written by Sir Charles Trinder under the pseudonym A. C. Malcolm, this is a delightful fantasy set in ancient Athens.
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The Complete Poems of C. P. Cavafy
- £35.00
- No modern poet brought so vividly to life the history and culture of Mediterranean antiquity; no writer dared break, with such taut energy, the early twentieth-century taboos surrounding homoerotic desire; no poet before or since has so gracefully melded elegy and irony as the Alexandrian Greek poet Constantine Cavafy (1863Ð1933).…
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The Light of Day
- £50.00
- Arthur Abdel Simpson is a failed journalist and soon-to-be failed thief, embittered by memories of his unhappy childhood in England and eking out a living in Athens. When he spots a newly arrived tourist at the airport, he offers his services as a private driver and sees an easy chance…
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The Praise Singer
- £50.00
- The great lyric poet Simonides lived in ancient Greece when tyrants kept an unsteady rule and poetry, music, and royal patronage combined to produce a flowering of the arts. Born into a stern farming family on the island of Keos, Simonides escapes his harsh childhood through a lucky apprenticeship with…
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4 Greek Women: Love Poems (Greek Women Poets Series)
- £15.00
- A collection of poems by 4 Greek women: Eleni Fourtouni (who edited and translated the poems into English); Victoria Theodorou; Angeliki Pavlopoulou; Katerina Angelaki-Rooke. Dedicated to 'all the Aegean Women'
- Add to basket
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Mother Land (SIGNED)
- £60.00
- Set in the late 1960s, Mother Land describes life on an Aegean island, seen through the eyes of a nine-year-old boy. It is the first-hand account of a Greek boy, born on a Turkish island, trying to make sense of the escalating tension between Greek and Turk, Muslim and Christian,…
- Add to basket
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O Men of Athens
- £18.00
- Written by Sir Charles Trinder under the pseudonym A. C. Malcolm, this is a delightful fantasy set in ancient Athens.
- Add to basket
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The Complete Poems of C. P. Cavafy
- £35.00
- No modern poet brought so vividly to life the history and culture of Mediterranean antiquity; no writer dared break, with such taut energy, the early twentieth-century taboos surrounding homoerotic desire; no poet before or since has so gracefully melded elegy and irony as the Alexandrian Greek poet Constantine Cavafy (1863Ð1933).…
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The Light of Day
- £50.00
- Arthur Abdel Simpson is a failed journalist and soon-to-be failed thief, embittered by memories of his unhappy childhood in England and eking out a living in Athens. When he spots a newly arrived tourist at the airport, he offers his services as a private driver and sees an easy chance…
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The Praise Singer
- £50.00
- The great lyric poet Simonides lived in ancient Greece when tyrants kept an unsteady rule and poetry, music, and royal patronage combined to produce a flowering of the arts. Born into a stern farming family on the island of Keos, Simonides escapes his harsh childhood through a lucky apprenticeship with…
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