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Emily, a beautiful cultured girl, having completed her studies in Switzerland, returns to Athens in order to begin her professional career. Being smart and confident but stifled by her family, she dreams of her independence. She begins her career in a big publishing company, where her course is excellent since her first steps. In an important company gala she meets Michalis. He is everything a young girl would dream of: handsome, gentle, jocose but mysterious. Being from a rich family, he courts her unmercifully: glow and love that blind. Frustrations follow one another....

Arta, 1854. The Turkish occupation. Two boys are born on the same night, one a Greek, the other a Turk, and fate makes them milk-siblings. The novel follows their life drawn on the canvas of the region’s unknown history. An entire era is brought to life in a unique way portraying prejudice alongside adventure, action, love, comical and tragic situations. In the shadow of the clock which strikes the Ottoman hours, Greeks, Turks and Jews live side by side. The shadow falls upon two friends, Liondos and Necip, a mysterious murder, grandpa Ismail, the small nation of Gree...

Stefan Dobrin was trained the hard way in absolute secrecy in order to turn into the perfect lethal machine. He never succumbed to his trainers’ illicit causes, that’s why he and his brother were neutralised. Today, Stefan, merciless and relentless, emerges from his ashes, and comes back to get his own back. He unexpectedly crosses paths with Zana, a woman with a shady past who, in her attempt to keep to the straight and narrow, finds herself in the middle of a fierce battle. They are both forced to blaze a gory trail to the end of the circle, teetering on an invisible...

Alfred is just another ordinary teenager. Or so he thinks until his life turns upside down. His father is found dead, his mother is murdered and his brother is abducted. Alfred is the only one who can save him. But how? What should he do? What can he do, when he discovers that nothing is as he thought? Everything is part of a plan. A plan that has been kept secret through the centuries. A plan that will either save the world or seal its doom. Alfred can't be certain of anything. He only knows one thing. What he has been told: All the answers he is searching for are waiting...

In a time of rapid political change and social unrest in Greece in the early sixties, a young man leaves Athens to study in Germany. He leaves the people and places he loves in search of something new, something different in a world unknown to him. The bond to his loved ones and the place where he grew up is so strong that there is no doubt about his decision after reaching his goal, namely to return back home. And yet things take a different turn ....

It is the eve of the 2004 Athens Olympic Games, and Chrysovalantis -a chronically unsuccessful but enthusiastic employee of the publishing industry- has been put out of work yet again. He begins a vitriolic monologue, taking aim at his many persecutors, from cruel bosses to opportunistic women to embar­rassing, crippling illnesses. An ageing relic of a bygone era, hounded by the challenges of a fast-changing city, he nonetheless sees the irony of his plight. Vice-ridden yet God-fearing, family-loving yet swindled even by his own sisters, this repentant anti-hero will set hi...

The Naples Mafia, cocaine trafficking, crime, blackmail, threats, dirty money, rapes, children deprived of their childhood, hidden family secrets, corrupt cops, but also police officers committed to duty, Colombian drug dealers, Brazilian forgers, strained relationships, strong friendships and, of course, Love.The sea is always in the background, first with the crossing of the Atlantic Ocean by sail and then within the waters of the Aegean Sea, sometimes calm and sometimes rough... In the epicenter is the Greek island of Hydra, with its traditions, its people and their drea...

Seeing the shine of her eyes, his mood changed. Suddenly, everything made sense, pain and sorrow were left to disperse in chaos, like the ashes of a fire that goes out in the blow of air. No one of the two wanted to talk, thus allowing love to fiercely overpower their bodies, which were creating between them a divine union, a musical sequence without even the smallest of discords. In an enchanting way, the two lovers were traveling in the intoxicating silence of the stars emanating from their hearts. Staying into each other's arms after the passion settled down, the soughs...

[...] I went out to buy something. It was about five o’clock in the afternoon. Near Taksim Square I saw a large crowd of furious Turks screaming slogans like "Cyprus is Turkish, down with the infidels" and more. I was very scared and I decided to go back home quickly and report it to Mr. Theophilos. He was very upset when he heard. He tried to reach Christos or Vassilis in Athens on the phone, but he could not get a connection. In the meantime there were very loud screams and a sound of people running and screaming near our house. Mr. Theophilos became even more excited, he...

A tour de force that invites you to touch Panacea... Who is the young Greek boy that reaches Malta in the 16th century, hidden in a barrel of sardines? Who is the Knight that searches in every nook and cranny for Panacea, the mythical herb that cures every disease? Who is the old man that, along with a skull, narrates his life, cooped up in Parisian catacombs? A story of love, hatred, and mystery in Malta of the Knights, Spain of Cervantes, and Italy of Caravaggio. A riveting search for the herb of Renaissance, the meaning of life and death, in the shadow of a brother...

They'd said to him "Take care! You've only got two minutes at your disposal to jump out of the train... You won't look behind you, just forwards to the Greek border. Whatever you hear, whatever happens, you'll run towards the Greek border." He did it all for Marie and his children, he said. Whatever he did was like a knife in Marie's heart, while those children hadn't really managed to get to know him, and then only from what was said by their grandfather and the aunts... At least after your death, you will listen to me, father.

Manhattan, New York. That’s where Melania Hart has lived for the past ten years, haunted by a secret overshadowing her existence. If her secret is discovered, she will be ruined. She has written a staggering novel, and desperately wants to get it published with Damian Red’s publishing house. The mysterious tycoon is the absolute male—breathtakingly handsome, masculine, and sexy, New York’s most popular bachelor. When Melania comes under attack inside Saks Department Store on Fifth Avenue on New Year’s Eve, she can’t imagine that this is the beginning of a chain of events th...

Rosanna and Voula were living peacefully at Cesme as best friends, when, the political unrest that took place in Istanbul in 1955, separated them. Fate brings them together in Greece after many years and lots of adventures, including family secrets and murders. Read the story of the two girls and follow them along the path each took, through three different places, till they were reunited under unexpected conditions. The revelation of well-hidden secrets is hard to bear for Rosanna. Nothing, though, can stay secret for ever...

A man is seized from his afternoon drink at the Cafe Sport by two agents of the Regime-though what exactly he is suspected of we do not know, and neither, apparently, does he. What follows is a journey by car toward Special Branch Headquarters, and the interrogation that undoubtedly awaits him there. With their destination approaching, oppressed and oppressor come face to face with their deepest human feeling, locked in a game of psychological skill. As the plot slowly unravels, so, too, do its main players. Part thriller and part political satire, "The Flaw" is as po...

Hans Christian Andersen, deeply sorrowful by unexpected events in his life, in the autumn of 1865, decides to travel to Stockholm to meet his beloved friend, Fredrika Bremer. A sad event that occurred shortly after their reunion brought back memories and unforgettable moments he had experienced during his journey in Athens, Acropolis, Piraeus and Greek islands in 1841. The vividness of his inexhaustible imagination is engaged in narrating extraordinary stories of ninety-three other foreign travelers which took place there and he could write about but never did. The Ameri...

"Loxandra" is the story of a Greek family living in Constantinople (Istanbul) from the mid-18th century up to the beginning of the First World War. It is not biographical as such, and many of the characters are fictional. Others, including the main character of Loxandra, are real. Constantinople was the author's home during the first years of her life and in her book she conveys the historical events, the customs, the spirit of those times when life for the Greeks of Constantinople was relatively untroubled. The real Loxandra was brought up in the Anatolian tradition of lov...

This is the saga of three cities: Jerusalem, Cairo and Alexandria, three cities drifting toward chaos in a war-torn Middle East. At its centre is Manos: a poet, lover of life, man of intellect and integrity, and hero of the Greek war against the Italian invasion, but who now deserts the national army to join the leftists in their clandestine struggle against the Greek fascists and royalists. Underground operations take him from city to city, involving him in a chain of shifting and perilous relationships. Manos is forced to choose between his human impulses and the b...

Set in Paris, sometime after the 1967 military coup in Greece. Eleni, together with a group of her friends and fellow political exiles, finds herself working as an extra in a French film: The Horror Train. It is not the first time Eleni has been caught up in a deadly drama, nor is it her first ride on a "horror train." As the director waves his arms, shouting directions and re-shouting the sequence, Eleni's mind wanders to her first train ride: "Athens-Piraeus. My first big trip by train. - You're Eleni? I'm Achilles. They don't ask which Achilles. One name is enough..."