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An intriguing photographic project undertaken in the Greek Ministry of Commerce between 1993 to 2000, when Patsouras worked there as a technician. Accompanied by an essay on the Greek public... read more

7 a.m. – 3 p.m.

Michalis Patsouras

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An elegant new translation.

The History of the Peloponnesian War

Thucydides

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Myths and transformations glint in Gianisi's three collections Homerica, Cicada and Chimera, published together in one volume. Translated from the Greek.

Goatsong

Phoebe Giannisi

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A captivating account of the author's life-long love affair with Greece, her youthful experience - sometimes very painful - finding a parallel in classical myth.

Dust and Pomegranates: How Greece Changed Me Forever ...

Victoria Whitworth

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An immense, encyclopedic feat of photography and research, now almost impossible to come by. Richly illustrated, with notes and descriptions throughout. In fine condition, almost as new, wit... read more

Flowers of Crete

John Fielding

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Carefully researched and sensitive to the influences of love and location, this is a fine account of the poet's life.

Alexandrian Sphinx: The Hidden Life of Constantine Cavafy ...

Peter Jeffreys

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The author, who died in 2020 and left this book unfinished, knew Durrell well. Happily, the completed chapters cover the busiest portions of his friend's life: childhood in India, youthful m... read more

Larry: A New Biography of Lawrence Durrell, 1912-1945 ...

Michael Haag

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How did Crusius - a C16th Lutheran clergyman who never left the Black Forest - become the greatest scholar of Greece during the Ottoman period? A deeply fascinating study of both subject and... read more

The Discovery of Ottoman Greece: Knowledge, Encounter, and Belief in t ...

Richard Calis

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In the third book of this remarkable sequence, the Greeks sail for home after a decade of war, leaving Troy a wasteland, and taking with them the captive Trojan women.

The Voyage Home

Pat Barker

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Typically Greek dishes with a bit of a twist and excellent ingredients - from the founders of the eponymous Marylebone restaurant.

OPSO: A Modern Greek Cookbook

Nikos Roussos

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A knock-out book on the photographs of Joan Leigh Fermor - many of Greece and previously unpublished, but many taken elsewhere too - Tunisia, Kurdistan, Turkey, the Caribbean.

The Outward Gaze – The Photographs of Joan Leigh Fermor ...

Olivia Stewart

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Delicious small-format book on John Craxton's drawings, sketches and paintings of cats (like Edward Gorey, he had many feline familiars). They frisk, are entangled in chair legs, observe fro... read more

Craxton’s Cats

Andrew Lambirth

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Reflections during a night spent in the Parthenon.

Shifting the Moon from its Orbit: A Night at the Acropolis Museum ...

Andrea Marcolongo

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Looks at 300 years of classical studies, and argues for the continuing importance of European ideas for the Anglo-Saxons.

The Muse of History: The Ancient Greeks from the Enlightenment to the ...

Oswyn Murray

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Charming photos.

Old Corfu

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In the footsteps of Odysseus, where myth and geography meet, the author finds herself on a quest of her own.

Enchanted Islands: A Mediterranean Odyssey – A Memoir of Travels ...

Laura Coffey

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My Brother Michael

Mary Stewart

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The Archeologist and Selected Sea Stories

Andreas Karkavitsas

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DK Eyewitness Greece: Athens and the Mainland

DK Eyewitness

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Robert Byron's account of his travels and lingerings on Mount Athos in 1927, aged twenty-five year. A wonderful re-issue by Eland of his first book, super-abundant with joy, wit and intellig... read more

The Station: Athos

Robert Byron

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From a beautiful exhibition at Delphi which captures Greece - quaint, nostalgic, troubled - caught between eras.

Greece After the War: Years of Hope

Robert A. McCabe

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The former Greek finance minister is in his usual pyrotechnic form. May increase blood pressure in some quarters.

Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism

Yanis Varoufakis

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Discovering that her grandfather, one of Greece's fascist generals, acquired ancient art treasures for himself, Helena has to reckon with her family's past. VH is a tireless and passionate e... read more

The Figurine

Victoria Hislop

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A life in pictures, both public and private of the bohemian prince, historian and writer who renounced his rights to the Greek throne to marry the artist Marina Karella in 1965.

Prince Michael of Greece: Crown, Art, and Fantasy

HRH Prince Michael Of Greece

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A biography of the city founded by Alexander the Great in 331 BC, once the largest city in the world and for a thousand years the capital of Egypt. Looks at the modern period too.

Alexandria: The City that Changed the World

Islam Issa

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Stunning photos by the self-confessed philhellene: a poet's hut, a taverna in Hydra and other traditional interiors as well as grander and more spacious houses in Athens, the Peloponnese and... read more

Haute Bohemians: Greece: Interiors, Architecture, and Landscapes ...

Miguel Flores-Vianna

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Marble in Metamorphosis

Rachel Cusk

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Reprint of a good Skira book from 2008 that disappeared rather fast.

Aegean Waves: Artworks of the Early Cycladic Culture in the Museum of ...

Nicholas Stampolidis

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This collection of Iznik work, from the Benaki Museum in Athens and collected by its founder, has never been fully published until now.

Iznik Ceramics at the Benaki Museum

John Carswell

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Catalogue from the Ashmolean, including lots of delightful textile fragments held at the museum.

Aegean Legacies: Greek Island Embroideries from the Ashmolean Museum ...

Francesca Leoni

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By the Philhellene poet and translator.

This Afterlife: Selected Poems

A. E. Stallings

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Ostensibly about the life of the Greek philosopher and mathematician Pythagoras, this beautifully illustrated volume examines the idea that harmony and beauty are not only inherent in the wo... read more

When the Dog Speaks, The Philosopher Listens

Nigel McGilchrist

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New edition of this wonderful classic. Ages 7-11.

Tales of the Greek Heroes

Roger Lancelyn Green

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This fictionalised account of his life was one of the last things Kazantzakis wrote before his death. A vivid picture of his childhood in Crete, still occupied by the Ottoman Turks, develops... read more

Report to Greco

Nikos Kazantzakis

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An Australian police sergeant returns to the land of his forebears, on the border of Greece, Albania and North Macedonia and is drawn into an investigation into a missing person. An exemplar... read more

The Invisible

Peter Papathanasiou

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Heracles, Perseus et alia: a collection for the fairly young. Another book of classical tales written and illustrated by Marcia Williams. Ages 5-7.

Greek Heroes: Top Ten Myths and Legends

Marcia Williams

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