City culture or island life? I still can’t decide.
(from The Sunday Times 08/02/2015) My love for Greece began as a holiday romance nearly 40 years ago. I was a teenager and landed in Athens one blisteringly hot day […]
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Help Lepra to #BeatLeprosy
Last October I joined Lepra to launch their #BeatLeprosy campaign. I pledged to see the end of the devastating effects of leprosy by 2024. Now, hundreds of people have joined […]
Book Club Reading Guide: The Sunrise
In the summer of 1972, Famagusta in Cyprus is the most desirable resort in the Mediterranean, a city bathed in the glow of good fortune. An ambitious couple are about […]
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The day my family fled Famagusta
Forty years on, lawyer Maria Hadjivasili, who escaped with her family, revisits her home town with author Victoria Hislop Mail on Sunday, October 12 by Victoria Hislop For “You” Maria […]
Writing ‘The Sunrise’: “I felt as if I was putting my fingers in a power socket”
by Ioanna Zikakou – Sep 29, 2014 40 years ago, the Cypriot town of Famagusta was occupied by Turkish forces. Today it’s capturing media attention once again, as the subject of […]
