National Writing Day 2021 Feature Article in The Daily Brit
236 As featured in The Daily Brit On National Writing Day 2021 I couldn’t be happier with this wonderful article in The Daily Brit which has included me as one of their featured British authors. I hope you’ll have a read. What does National Writing Day mean to you? How […]
My Book Love For Susie Helme’s The Lost Wisdom of the Magi
155 Book Review by Soulla Christodoulou Welcome to this week’s My Book Love For and the wonderfully researched and beautifully written novel of Susie Helme, The Lost Wisdom of the Magi. Where do I start? This is like no other book I have ever read… it takes you back to the first century where Sophia, […]
The Summer Will Come, a Greek Excerpt
137 Translation by Maria Christodoulou This week I am sharing a short excerpt from my novel The Summer Will Come in Greek. Maria Christodoulou, a Teaching Assistant and a Greek Language Teacher of A Level Greek at the Hellenic School of Sheffield has been working on the translation since June 2020. It’s a long process […]
Lockdown At My House
109 by Soulla Christodoulou With the vicious onslaught of COVID-19 news filling our screens and bogging down our minds I thought it the right time to try and bring some peace and encouragement to you. This is happening around us and to us but it doesn’t have to grind us down or wear us out. […]
The Summer Will Come Book Excerpt
274 by Soulla Christodoulou This is a short excerpt from a school scene in the village of Kato Lefkara, the home of Elena, her twin brother Andreas and their mother Evangelia. I’ve chosen to share this with you as it shows the children’s innocence and excitement about moving to London. “It was the day of […]
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 […]
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 […]