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      • Prisoner of Love
        Fiction

        Prisoner of Love

        by James P. Hadley

        Perfect love meets perfect crime with the hot summer of Greek crisis in the background. ‘Prisoner of Love’ is a book that proves how easily dreams can turn into nightmares. From one page to the other! Marcella Wanton is just a salesperson near her 30s, still waiting for her other half. One day, her dreams come true. But after a while, out of the blue, her prince charming disappears. Meanwhile, the famous best-selling writer Magdalena Love has a new lover. He is a Greek unemployed adventurer, who used to dream of becoming a writer. Love persuades him to write a romantic best-seller under her instructions. He accepts. But he doesn’t know that the end of the book will also be his own end… Prisoner of Love is a novel balancing between the romance of mass market love stories and the suspense of crime fiction paperback novels. It is also about the love of books and the experience of writer’s block. Α breath-taking book that starts off as a seemingly light read but builds up very subtly and masterfully to a brilliantly genius climax where reality and fiction blend beautifully.

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      • Journey to the end of the world
        Fiction

        Journey to the end of the world

        by "Writing Stories" Writers' Workshop

        A Journey to the End of the World and, at the same time, a journey to the world of writing. Kalonissi, a forgotten island in the middle of the Aegean Sea, is the only refuge left for those who seek shelter from the upcoming end of the world. It is the place where many peculiar personalities resort to and mingle with the local inhabitants and their daily lives. An explosive mix that won’t take long to go off... Humour and despair in equal measure, in a novel about the end of the world and how to face it. Fourteen authors have succeeded in creating a single novel through a collaborative process and hard work. It took more than two years for the book to be completed. Strange Days Books present a book featuring the multiple individual voices and writing styles of fourteen different people who, despite the challenges, collaborated and succeeded in creating a fascinating collective novel.

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      • Sniff
        Fiction

        Sniff

        by Gregory Papadoyiannis

        A different take on the History of Greece, where events that marked the country coexist with neighbourhood gossip, the humble, provincial life and the hustle and bustle of the capital.  A story full of little heroes and big mistakes, colourful imagery, black and white sadness, radio shows, films and TV-series. A nostalgic tale about the passing of time that only one sound can capture: sniff! The author manages to cover four decades through the eyes of one child: our hero may have physically evolved but still remains a child from a mental, verbal and emotional point of view. With his toy cars, football trading cards and his favourite comic books as symbols of our well-hidden inner child, a child that is desperately searching for a crack to dampen the dry land of social alienation and petit bourgeois stuffiness. The seemingly simplistic, yet substantial words of the main character, take us on a journey of the Greek reality of the last 40 years. Past events from the political arena, society, sports and the art world make their appearance in a hilarious way, revealing a light-hearted side to what, to our eyes, seemed serious and special until now. A deeply moving, almost heart-wrenching, book that brings back the long lost innocence of an era.

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      • The city beyond the river
        Fiction

        The city beyond the river

        by Gregory Papadoyiannis

        Gregory Papadoyiannis, shows us that, fortunately, human imagination works, by surpassing an anyway questionable reality while, on the other hand, -and this may be the most important element of his work- he uses reflective thinking to reveal the greatness of human thought and the power of its creativity. Imagination: human charisma, solely responsible for the genesis of myths, a talent or a gift of nature, which preserves, to our day, the primordial reasons of their creation. From this point of view, it seems natural for a traditional fairy-tale dragon to still be living in a cave on a rugged mountainside, or for the members of a music band who have been out of the limelight to come back as ghosts on the now haunted stage where they once experienced moments of glory. Short stories from this book have been awarded or shortlisted in short story contests, such as Stella’s Literary Bistro, Tom Howard and the International Annual Fish Short Story Contests, while they have also been published in anthologies and journals, such as Future Eyes by PaleHouse Magazine, Jakes Monthly anthology of Magic Realism and Foxing Quarterly magazine.

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      • Friday to Monday
        Fiction

        Friday to Monday

        by Antonis Tsirikoudis

        This fascinating, autobiographical debut novel tells the story of the long-term relationship of a gay couple set in contemporary Greece, and more specifically in a run-down area of the city of Heraklion, Crete, also known as Lakkos (Greek for “the pit”). The couple moves into one of the remaining crumbling old dwellings in the area and one of them, an Australian artist, has the idea of reviving the area through an art project. As a result, artists from all over the world flock in, beautifying Lakkos with wall paintings. The narrator, the partner of the Australian artist, is a Greek male in his late thirties. The story of the beautification of Lakkos takes him back to his own attempt as a teenager to “beautify” himself, when his main purpose in life was to avoid repeating the dysfunctional patterns of his parents' life and forces him to face the fact that his success in doing so was just an illusion. The visiting artists function as a temporary distraction from the couple's issues, which eventually come to the surface and demand immediate attention. As the story unfolds, Greece is in deep financial and refugee crises, a country under surveillance and a place where the word 'hope' is almost extinct. As the story draws to a close, the reader is offered a choice between two different endings and can decide whether the couple will stay together or fall apart.

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      • When you least expect it
        Fiction

        When you least expect it

        by Antonis Tsirikoudis

        “Stories always contain a grain of truth” could be the motto of this book, a collection of thirty three short stories, most of them taking place in contemporary Greece, a country much more diverse than its portrayal by the mass media. Some others are set in Australia, the faraway continent representing a symbol for a better life. An everyday incident serves as the starting point for each story. The author then gives his own version, merging reality with fiction. Amongst other things, you will read about an aspiring novelist who adopts the lifestyle of Bukowski in every aspect except for the single thing that made him famous; writing. An old Greek lady seeks protection from an advocate for the fascist Golden Dawn party. A middle-aged man deletes his father from his life through a letter. Other stories feature diet and sexual practices, the concept of fighting the system from within the system, and the connection between poetry and bullying in schools. The twist that looms over each story works as a connecting thread, giving the book its title. Time, and our perception of it, is crucial to the narration, as well as the way we see so-called reality. The book will be released in Spain in 2021, translated by Mario Domínguez Parra

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      • The seagull's nest
        Fiction

        The seagull's nest

        by Mary Margariti

        In the summer of 2017, the murder of a young woman on the municipal beach of Lesvos stirs the island's peaceful summer atmosphere. Not long afterwards, a second murder creates a ripple effect and an unbearable headache to officer Bergakis, who is in charge of the investigation. The case transcends the island's borders. A backup team arrives from the capital and holds a surprise for the officer, reminding him after a long time that, apart from duty, there is also love. With everyday island life as a background, perfectly described by the author who was born and raised there, the two murders are an ideal excuse to tell a mystery story which unravels along with the emotional growth of the main characters in this fascinating tale.

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      • Beware of the dog
        Fiction

        Beware of the dog

        by Christodoulos Litzerinos

        Science fiction and magic realism go hand in hand with the satire of modern Greece in this gripping novel that won 1st  prize in the 2nd Novel Contest by Strange Days Books in 2017. The country's dream production has hit rock bottom. Panic ensues among the highest ranks of the government. Unless the citizens start dreaming immediately, and in the right way, the country will have to declare dream bankruptcy! And then everything will start falling apart. But what measures will it take to make them obey? A deeply political book that can also be read as a thriller set in an imaginary country and in an undetermined time that could perfectly be our near future, if not already our past.

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      • The night sleeps
        Fiction

        The night sleeps

        by Stella Dede

        What happens at night, when we sleep? It’s the time we fall in the rabbit hole and all shapes and sizes change and we’re judged by the 52 playing cards of the weeks of the year and they condemn us to death, our fate, so that we may wake up in the morning as good as new and wiser. Stella Dede’s first book is a largely poetic short story collection accompanied with poems and sketches by Giannis Pantikakis.

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      • Caravans of the defeated
        Fiction

        Caravans of the defeated

        by Nikos Lefkaditis

        A gripping story with fairy-tale and magic realism elements and, at the same time, an allegory that reminds us of the widely known and often painful conditions that make people become refugees. At the core of this tale is a love story in an imaginary setting. A sensitive and deeply optimistic book whose main theme is the search for hope and happiness.

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      • Chonglacé Has Been Looking for Hair since this Morning
        Fiction

        Chonglacé Has Been Looking for Hair since this Morning

        by Sophia Kalogeridou

        A river is enraged and Chonglacé has been going up and down the city streets since this morning. The Mink dynasty is coming down from a western Macedonian village. The Indian grandmother Kali can’t stand still in a home where Tupperware is used as an antidepressant. A drunkard carries old ladies on his platform to and fro monastery feasts. A homeless man finds consolation in a toilet flush, while Truman's trench coat becomes three pairs of pants. A Hungarian gypsy tells her story through a Plexiglas screen.  Behind this realistic collection lurks a bittersweet smile. Time is a poacher that takes us out of our way, but we find people again.

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