My Book Love For Ian Walford’s Lured by The Hoard
111 Book Review by Soulla Christodoulou Hello and welcome to my book review post. Hope you’ve been well… I’ve been taking a few walks and have been thoroughly enjoying the vibrancy of autumn and its gloriously changing colours. Lured by The Hoard – An Anglo-Saxon Mystery, by Ian Walford, is one of those books I […]
Cyprus, Inspiration and The Summer Will Come
166 Collaborative piece by @thecypriotstory (Instagram) and Soulla Christodoulou Hello and welcome! I was absolutely delighted when @thecypriotstory – a community account on Instagram for One Cyprus contacted me for a story to support their feed dedicated to, “One island, one people, one culture.” This is what I came up with and I hope you […]
My Book Love For David Gee’s Lillian and the Italians
120 Book Review by Soulla Christodoulou Welcome to this week’s blog post – another wonderful read and book review for Lillian and the Italians by David Gee. This is my first taste of David Gee’s writing and I really enjoyed his beautiful descriptions of Italy; the waterways of Venice and the Amalfi coast. At a […]
The Summer Will Come Book Excerpt
182 by Soulla Christodoulou This is a particularly emotional and heart-wrenching scene in The Summer Will Come. It comes at a point in the book where tensions are magnified as civilians are helplessly entangled and embroiled in the increasing animosity between the British Troops occupying the island and the EOKA freedom fighters. “As she neared […]
The Summer Will Come chosen as a Year of Learning Festival Book Club Read by Barnet Libraries
80 The Summer Will Come was chosen as a Year of Learning Festival Book Club Read by Barnet Libraries, London, and last night I attended a book club ‘Meet The Author’ event to meet the readers and to talk about my writing. It was over a year ago I contacted the Library Service making enquiries […]
Excerpt…The Summer Will Come – 25th March 2018 release date.
31 During the troubles in Cyprus, in the 1950s, many school children were caught up in the hype of achieving Enosis (unity) with Greece. Too young to be swear their allegiance to EOKA – the main group behind the fight – they often bunked school and planned their own crude attacks on the British military […]