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Author Archive: Anne Zouroudi

The Nekromanteion: A Journey to the Underworld

The Nekromanteion: A Journey to the Underworld

Jan 11, 2018 Anne Zouroudi Featured, Greece, Myths and Legends, Travel Comments Off on The Nekromanteion: A Journey to the Underworld

The Oracle of the Dead The Nekromanteion is a dark and disturbing place, set on a windy hillside, surrounded by a landscape unchanged across centuries.  If you understand basic Greek, you’ll...
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The Greek Detective Turns Ten

The Greek Detective Turns Ten

Jul 12, 2017 Anne Zouroudi Books, Hermes - the mysteries of the Greek Detective, The Messenger of Athens Comments Off on The Greek Detective Turns Ten

Happy Birthday Hermes! Incredible though it seems to me, it’s ten years since The Messenger of Athens was first published. I’d finished the manuscript two years before that, but the...
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Chainsaw Cookery: Greek Lamb Manly Style

Chainsaw Cookery: Greek Lamb Manly Style

Apr 16, 2017 Anne Zouroudi Featured, Food, Greek food Comments Off on Chainsaw Cookery: Greek Lamb Manly Style

Jobs for the Boys It was a conspiracy of circumstances which produced today’s kleftiko-style Greek lamb: a raw joint of meat on the kitchen counter, a nostalgia for Greece brought on by poor...
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Greek Easter: Things That Go Boom in the Night

Greek Easter: Things That Go Boom in the Night

Apr 11, 2017 Anne Zouroudi Featured Comments Off on Greek Easter: Things That Go Boom in the Night

Kalo Pasca – Happy Easter!  This week is the Big Week of Greek Easter, ‘Big’ in this instance meaning Most Holy or of great import. It’s a time when the sweet smell of baking...
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A Move to East Anglia

A Move to East Anglia

Mar 17, 2017 Anne Zouroudi Featured, News Comments Off on A Move to East Anglia

My other half and I are upping sticks and making the move to beautiful East Anglia. We’ve loved Derbyshire (where I have lived for many years) but we’re ready for a change, so we’ve...
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Καλή Χρονιά – Happy New Year!

Καλή Χρονιά – Happy New Year!

Jan 01, 2017 Anne Zouroudi Featured, Seasons 0

Καλή Χρονιά – Happy New Year! There are many who will not mourn the passing of 2016 – which was by any standards a turbulent year – and you especially I wish a calmer,...
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A New Greek Island Mystery – The Gifts of Poseidon

A New Greek Island Mystery – The Gifts of Poseidon

Dec 11, 2016 Anne Zouroudi Books, Crime, Featured, Greek Islands, Hermes - the mysteries of the Greek Detective, Mystery, Uncategorised 0

It’s been a long wait, but the latest Greek island mystery is now available! A Crime Novel Stuffed with Red Herrings…   The Gifts of Poseidon features – of course –...
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Bitter Oranges

Bitter Oranges

Feb 02, 2016 Anne Zouroudi Featured, Food, Greece, Greek food, Travel 0

It’s the season, in Greece, for oranges, and oranges are everywhere you look, splattered on the pavements of city streets, heaped up for sale at the roadside, dangling from branches overhanging...
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Author Interview

Author Interview

Jan 20, 2016 Anne Zouroudi Featured, Greece, Hermes - the mysteries of the Greek Detective, Writing Comments Off on Author Interview

I’m delighted to kick off the new year by sharing my author interview with Athens-based author and blogger Efforsyni Moschoudi. We talked of many things, including what I’m writing now,...
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A Christmas Ghost Story

A Christmas Ghost Story

Dec 16, 2015 Anne Zouroudi Featured, Holiday reading, Seasons, Short stories, Writing Comments Off on A Christmas Ghost Story

I’ve written a Christmas ghost story. I’ve been a huge fan of ghost stories ever since I first terrified myself with the flesh-creeping fiction of MR James, and there’s no better...
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