 Books about Greece
"Elaine" <elliebobs@clysbarton.freeservedotcodotuk> wrote in message
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>I mentioned on here a while ago that I'd bought a few books from Amazon. I
> read Prospero's Cell straight away (and found it enjoyable, if a little
> heavy going), but the others got put away for when I had more time.
>
> Well, I'm recently out of hospital and whilst in there I read Emma
> Tennant's
> House in Corfu which was a good read. The only criticism I have is that
> it
> should have a map of Corfu in it so you can see where she's talking about.
> It wouldn't have mattered if I'd been at home and could look things up,
> but
> in hospital (or on holiday) it would have been useful.
>
> I'm now halfway through John Mole's It's all Greek to Me and it's really
> good. I'm just glad that my wound's starting to heal now, because I think
> I
> might have burst my stitches laughing at some of his hilarious
> descriptions
> :o)
>
> I've still got Tom Stone's The Summer of My Greek Taverna to go at and
> have
> just ordered 2 John Walller books about Corfu from Amazon, but as I'll
> probably be off work until Christmas, I'd welcome any more suggestions to
> keep me going and save me from vegging out on daytime TV :o)
>
> Cheers - Elaine
May I recommend a few writers to you, from my own list of favourites:
Lawrence Durrell, Patrick Leigh Fermor and of Kazantzakis.
And speedy recovery!
Henry.
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