A peek into Greece through travel books
Escape into books that give flight to your imaginations, and the miles they inspire you to hike, drive and fly. Here is our compilation of a few cl...
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Here’s the Lowdown on the Runciman Award 202...
For nearly 40 years, the Runciman Award has been selecting the best b...
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Wines of Santorini: A taste journey into a fascina...
Yiannis Karakasis’ new book explores one of Greece’s greater wine regi...
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The 40 Books that got me through 2020: Sofka Zinovieff
Like many of us this awful year, books have been the one constant solace for best-selling author Sofka Zinovieff. From pacy page-turners and feel-good reads, to moving memoirs and engrossing audiobooks to escape to while you cook, the Athens-based writer reveals the titles that have provided her with the best company and inspiration duri...
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Hydra, a muse for wordsmiths
A fertile setting for writers in need of inspiration, Hydra's bohemian artistic community in the '60s provided fodder for the literary wizards who'd adopted the island as their muse. From George Johnston's barely-disguised biographies to Henry Miller's transcendental ramblings, Daniel Klein's epicurean musings and Charmian Clift's poetic...
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Mystery writer’s dilemmas, elections and bio-terrorism: Late summer musings
This is the fifth of my monthly chronicles on living through pandemic times, as told from the perspective of an American mystery writer who has called Greece home for 35 years. My wife and I had been in lockdown mode at our pastoral New Jersey farm since late February, but for August we experienced lockdown Manhattan-style. I’ve entrusted...
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Lexikopoleio: For bookish delights
A place of discovery, escape and joy in leafy Pangrati. Walking into Lexikopoleio feels like coming home, because there’s an inexplicable warmth and safety it fosters. The musky smell of the books, the vibrant colours of the covers, the texture of the pages and spine - that in itself is a draw -but when it is peopled by staff who love lit...
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Flâneur Souvenirs and Supplies: Travel Tales
A trip to Paris is stalled, and two wanderlusts Katerina and Yannis Chytiroglou convert their frustration into what they’d wanted to do in Paris – flâner, that untranslatable French word to just float about aimlessly absorbing the essence of the city into a travel boutique. Flâneur is all that and more. So much more than souvenirs, it is ...
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3 Women Writers whose company you should seek
Whether they’re opening their lives up for public inspection, or through the exploratory lens of therapy, you will enjoy these laugh-out-loud New York Times best-sellers, Anna Roins suggests. Becoming, by Michele Obama (Crown, 13 Nov 2018) It’s been said that ‘First ladies are, for the most part, second-hand celebrities...
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Writers unite, you have nothing to lose but your inhibitions!
The Irish Embassy, in collaboration with Athens Insider, announces its first-ever Bloomsday creative writing competition in English, open to writers of all ages and nationalities. Bloomsday is marked around the world as a celebration of James Joyce, of course, but also as a celebration of Irish literature, modernist writing and creativity...
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Athens Riviera gets its own coffee table book
Editions Assouline's dreamy coffee table books often are as attractive as the destinations they cover. Its latest addition, the Athens Riviera coffee table book is a stunning photo album that retraces the history and spirit of Athens and its inhabitants. Discover a city that we have known for millennia, but whose contemporaneity is too of...
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Victoria Hislop’s Island Affair with Crete
From moonlight pilgrimages to sacred monasteries and London-worthy fish tavernas, best-selling author Victoria Hislop shares her best Insider secrets about Crete - the magnetic Greek island that has stolen her heart. How - and when - did your deep connection with the island of Crete begin? My first visit was in 1980. I was tra...
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