Mr Raymond

Novel, Greek and English Editions, e-Book edition

Joanna is a young lawyer, who goes for a holiday with her young niece to a small Greek coastal village. At the stage of shaping her future life according to the habits and traditions of her middle class family, the only way she seems to know, she encounters a middle aged architect, Raymond, who despite his marriage, leads a liberal and rather bohemian life.

After a while they fall in love, and start an affair that will challenge deeply their so far style of life and beliefs, with little hope though of continuing with a future together. However, near the end of their holiday, a tragic event puts an end to many things around them. What Raymond has taught her as the real meaning of life, haunts her from now onwards, changing completely all previously held rules, with unforeseen consequences.

The Fan Repairer (Second Edition)

Novel, English Edition

Chinatown, London. The solitary figure of the cook at the ‘Dragon’s Head’ restaurant attracts no attention. This cook though is a highly educated man with a rare talent. That of repairing fans.

When he left his hometown of Nanking in China, escaping from the disasters of the Cultural Revolution, he never thought that cooking was going to be his only way of supporting himself in the foreign land. However, his love of fans, and skill of repairing them, leads him in his interactions with other people to fundamental changes of his, and their lives, in most unexpected ways.

This novel is an insight into the discreet world of Chinatown, but also into the illegal, and lucrative trade of precious artefacts.

The Pelican

Short Stories, Greek Edition

A shadow appears every evening in the harbour and no one knows what it is, so the people of the little village get together to find out. Evening after evening the watching teams of villagers place traps to catch the shadow, however to no success, and the fear increases in the village that a strange and bad ghost has been installed there to frightened them.

Then, someone finally decides to place a very special net to catch the shadow and free the villagers from its constant night presence and what is caught there makes all of them to see how wrong they had been, and what a beautiful life they manage to destroy forever.

(Twenty six short stories on everyday life, people, and events, that despite their assumed simplicity make life to change.)

Human coastline

Short Stories, Greek Edition

People meet in life, a man and a woman as in this story, they become friends, they like the one the other’s company, and sometimes they even fall in love. However as it is in human nature, not always everything can be clear, and simple.

Yiannis is a known doctor, gentle, kind, well educated, a joy to be with him, and Miranda without even understanding how, she falls for him, when other, common friends confide to her about something darker from his past. What they don’t know however is that he has fallen for her too, desperately trying to be a new person for her sake. There is also Miranda’s old family home by the sea, and the storm, and then suddenly humans, and elements of nature fall all together, the one for the others making an unexpected happy end.

(Twelve short stories of humans going around life and themselves happy and unhappy for small winnings or losses of life.)

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The following four books form a collection of poems.

Incidents on Mirror No 9

Poems, Greek Edition

 Journey to Pontos

Poems, Greek Edition

Us in the courtyard with the statues

Poems, Greek Edition

Elegies in the sand

Poems, Greek Edition

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