The View From Kleoboulos

Author : John Manuel
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2013-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781291114621

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The View From Kleoboulos by John Manuel Pdf

In this, John Manuel's first full-length novel after having written four very successful travel memoirs about Greece, he again takes the reader into the tiny whitewashed streets of the village of Lindos on the island of Rhodes. Dean and Alyson are two young people who come together in a bar one evening in their home city of Bath, UK. Alyson's mother once worked with Brian, a musician who never quite "made it," but ends up playing guitar and singing in a Lindian Bar. Quite how Brian and Christine (Alyson's mother) come to have a devastating effect on their daughter's relationship with the man of her dreams will have you gripped, both with emotion and with intrigue. A real page-turner, the perfect holiday read, "The View From Kleoboulos" is Thomas Hardy for the 21st century. Sometimes the past comes back to haunt you, but occasionally it comes back to bite.

Author : John Manuel
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2017-05-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780244605490

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A Jay in the Jacaranda Tree by John Manuel Pdf

This is a frank, amusing, poignant, hard-hitting, controversial yet always absorbing take on over a decade of life on a Greek island. ​ In "A Jay in the Jacaranda Tree" John tackles such themes as the current economic crisis, the confusing political scene in Greece, refugees, immigrant workers, the health service and the cat and dog situation. ​ He pulls no punches and expresses his views after having lived on Rhodes since 2005. His insight will make you laugh, cry, possibly frown, yet always it will engage you. This is a frank, yet deep down affectionate, look at the Rhodes and the Greece of the past turbulent decade.

Author : John Manuel
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2014-01-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781291718591

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A Brief Moment of Sunshine by John Manuel Pdf

Claire Mason's life seemed to be on track. She was a successful artist and she had a good marriage to a loving husband. Then, almost overnight, a succession of events turn her entire life upside down. How will she deal with it? Will she emerge from the maelstrom that threatens to destroy her mind, or will she succumb and thus implode emotionally and mentally? How do visits to Greece play a part in her navigating her way through the tangle of events that threaten to destroy her sanity? As with ""The View From Kleoboulos"" there are twists aplenty here. In Claire Mason's life, will she ever glimpse a brief moment of sunshine?

Author : John Manuel
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2020-02-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780244266387

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The Crete Connection by John Manuel Pdf

In rural Wiltshire, England, a six month-old baby disappears from a stroller while its mother is inside a store for just two minutes. A young Englishman begins a summer of adventure on the Greek island of Crete. By pure chance, the two events, although separated by over twenty years, are irrevocably linked by the taverna where the young Englishman ends up helping out. The result is life-changing, both for the mother of the child that disappeared, and for the young Englishman. A chance visit to the same taverna by these two separate individuals brings on a crisis in both of their lives, but will it end well for either?

Author : John Manuel
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2016-01-20
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781326536282

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Sometimes You Just Can't Tell by John Manuel Pdf

When Lewis and his Greek wife Katerini return to the island of her birth for a visit, neither could have predicted the series of events that would unfold, resulting in both of them coming to wonder if they'll ever see each other again. Katerini, though, wonders if she'll even live to see anyone at all. From the author of "The View From Kleoboulos", "A Brief Moment of Sunshine" and "Eve of Deconstruction" comes a dark tale of the results arising from misdeeds done many years in the past - with potentially tragic consequences.

Author : John Manuel
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2015-01-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781326155339

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Eve of Deconstruction by John Manuel Pdf

Chippenham UK, present day. Eve Watkins is a fairly average modern woman in her early forties with two teenage kids, a loving husband with a steady job and career of her own. It looks like her average life is fairly uneventful, yet secure. Following the death of her mother she discovers things about her own past that come as a complete surprise to Eve. These lead her eventually out to a small village in mainland Greece, where developments soon lead to her life beginning to deconstruct before her. Ought she have let sleeping dogs lie? Yet she knew she had to find out. She had to know who she really was. Whatever the cost.

Author : John Manuel
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2018-01-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780244359164

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Two in the Bush by John Manuel Pdf

Adrian Dando has a good marriage, and a steady, if somewhat pedestrian life in the West of England. Without warning it all goes horribly wrong and he is left alone and bereft. Having two friends who have already moved out to Greece, he decides, with their encouragement, to do likewise. After all, a new start, a new life, new experiences, all of these should enable him to kick-start his life again, maybe even bring him some degree of happiness. A 'chance' discovery of a woman's body in a quiet location not far from his home starts a chain of events that just may turn his idyll into a nightmare. But is everything as it seems? With a plot that twists like series of old olive branches, ""Two in the Bush"" carries enough surprises to keep you wondering to the last page.

Author : John Manuel
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2019-01-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780244451554

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Panayiota by John Manuel Pdf

Explores the clashes between generations and cultures through the eyes of second and third generation Cypriot-Greek-Australians.

Author : Peter Philip Liddel,Polly Low
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2013-09-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199665747

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Inscriptions and Their Uses in Greek and Latin Literature by Peter Philip Liddel,Polly Low Pdf

From the archaic period onwards, ancient literary authors working within a range of genres discussed and quoted a variety of inscriptions. This volume offers a wide-ranging set of perspectives on the diversity of epigraphic material present in ancient literary texts, and the variety of responses, both ancient and modern, which they can provoke.

Author : Margaret Foster
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2024-05-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520401426

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The Seer and the City by Margaret Foster Pdf

Seers featured prominently in ancient Greek culture, but they rarely appear in archaic and classical colonial discourse. Margaret Foster exposes the ideological motivations behind this discrepancy and reveals how colonial discourse privileged the city's founder and his dependence on Delphi, the colonial oracle par excellence, at the expense of the independent seer. Investigating a sequence of literary texts, Foster explores the tactics the Greeks devised both to leverage and suppress the extraordinary cultural capital of seers. The first cultural history of the seer, The Seer and the City illuminates the contests between religious and political powers in archaic and classical Greece.

Author : Mary Whitlock Blundell,Ruby Blondell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1991-07-26
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0521423902

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Helping Friends and Harming Enemies by Mary Whitlock Blundell,Ruby Blondell Pdf

This book is a detailed study of five plays of Sophocles that examines a key ethical principle.

Author : Manuel Baumbach,Nicola Dümmler
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2014-04-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9783110334142

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Imitate Anacreon! by Manuel Baumbach,Nicola Dümmler Pdf

Despite their rich tradition, the Carmina Anacreontea transmitted in the Palatine Anthology have received little scholarly attention. This neglect is linked to questions concerning their authenticity. Long read as poems by the ancient lyricist Anacreon, they are now regarded instead as imitations of Anacreontic lyricism. This volume presents the latest findings on the language, poetology, tradition, and reception of this lyrical collection.

Author : David Phillips,David Pritchard
Publisher : Classical Press of Wales
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2003-12-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781914535222

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Sport and Festival in the Ancient Greek World by David Phillips,David Pritchard Pdf

How did sport and festival affect the ancient Greek city? How did the values of athletics pervade Greek culture? This collection of fifteen new studies from an international cast took its inspiration from the exceptional Sydney Olympics of 2000. The focus here is on the ancient world, but additionally there is a sophisticated look at how Greek artefacts linked with sport can best be presented to the modern world.

Author : Josephine Kelly
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2024-05-21
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781471616921

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From Lindos With Love by Josephine Kelly Pdf

Author : David A. Campbell
Publisher : Bristol Classical Press
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : STANFORD:36105123825775

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Greek Lyric Poetry by David A. Campbell Pdf

This edition provides a full and representative selection of all early Greek lyric (omitting Pindar, who requires his own volume), elegiac and iambic poetry. The extensive commentary gives assistance with matters of dialect and language, Homeric and Hesiodic comparisons, interpretation, content and metre