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 […]
The Summer Will Come, a Greek excerpt.
154 Post by Soulla Christodoulou Hello. How are you all? This is the second little book excerpt in Greek I’m sharing with you. I hope you enjoy it and I hope too that it will inspire you to read The Summer Will Come in English in advance of the Greek version being published. Maria Christodoulou, […]
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 […]
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 […]
The Summer Will Come and Cyprus Independence Day
166 The Summer Will Come and Cyprus Independence Day… a book which highlights Cyprus’ fight for freedom, from British rule, and a day which marks and celebrates the declaration of Cyprus’ independence. It was on this day on 1st October 1960 that Cyprus Independence Day was and still is celebrated across the Republic of Cyprus […]
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 […]
My Inspiration Behind The Summer Will Come
52 My inspiration for The Summer Will Come is something I’ve long thought about and most often get asked by readers. As a UK Greek Cypriot, I’ve had many enriching experiences in my life which have opened my eyes to new things about me, people and the world. I guess we all get to that […]
Sharing one of my The Summer Will Come interviews as featured by Author Interviews
87 Hello and welcome to this week’s post where I am sharing a recent interview I did for Mike Jackson, the man behind Author Interviews, who featured my writing and my novel The Summer Will Come. His questions were just fabulous to answer and I’m truly grateful to him for all his support. Here is […]
In celebration of The Summer Will Come by Soulla Christodoulou…one year on.
47 As a way of celebrating the one year anniversary of The Summer Will Come’s release I thought I would share a special interview I did with beadyjansbooks titled “Cyprus: My connection, memories and now”. I hope you enjoy reading this and if you haven’t read my book that it will spike your interest! Thank […]