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...
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...
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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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...
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...
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,...
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 –...
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...
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,...
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...
