19 Feb 2022

Marian Engel, Monodromos, House of Anansi, 1973

Marian Ruth Engel was a Canadian novelist, short-story and children's fiction writer and a passionate activist for the national and …

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18 Jan 2022

Olive Murray Chapman, Across Cyprus, John Lane the Bodley Head, 1945

Olive Murray Chapman, Across Cyprus, John Lane the Bodley Head, 1945

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16 Dec 2021

Libby Rowan-Moorhouse, “In the land of Aphrodite”, Illustrated by the author, Book Guild Publishing, 2005

“Once upon a time, there was a village. We lived there not long ago. How can I conjure up that …

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22 Nov 2021

Henry Rider Haggard, A Winter Pilgrimage in Palestine, Italy, and the island of Cyprus, accomplished in the year 1900, Longmans, Green and CO. 1908

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18 Oct 2021

William Hurrell Mallock, In an Enchanted Island: Or, A Winter's Retreat in Cyprus, R. Bentley & son, 1889

William Hurrell Mallock (1849 –1923) was an English novelist and economics writer.

He was educated privately and then at Balliol …

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16 Sep 2021

John Knittel, Cyprus wine from my cellar, J. Long Ltd, 1933

John Knittel, Cyprus wine from my cellar, J. Long Ltd, 1933.
“With our feet we stand on the ground, with …

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15 Jul 2021

Colin Thubron, Journey into Cyprus, Penguin Travel Library, 1986

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10 Jun 2021

Agnes Smith Lewis, Through Cyprus, Hurst and Blackett, London, 1887

“Come travel soon thy friends will be replaced.

Come work; and life's true sweetness thou shalt know.

Success and fame …

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09 May 2021

Gladys Emma Peto, Malta and Cyprus, London & Toronto, J.M. Dent and Sons Ltd, 1926

Gladys Emma Peto (1890-1977), was an English artist, fashion designer, illustrator and writer. She studied at the Maidenhead School of …

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22 Apr 2021

Sir Harry Luke, Cyprus: a Portrait and Appreciation, London, Harrap, 1957

One of the most lyrical introductions to the island of Cyprus by Sir Harry Luke who lived in Cyprus for …

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25 Mar 2021

Esme Scott-Stevenson, Our Home in Cyprus, London, Chapman and Hall, 1880

Esme Scott-Stevenson was the wife of Kyrenia Commissioner Captain Andrew Scott-Stevenson with who she came to Cyprus in 1878. As …

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