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14/04/2023

Nikolaos Palamidas / The girl in the photo

A story of mystery and love written by Nikolaos Palamidas. A story that started on an ordinary Saturday night in a bar in Oropos.

After an evening she barely remembered, Anna woke up to find a blindingly beautiful and extremely expensive ring in her purse. This ring and a photo of her with an unknown man is the beginning of a story full of surprises and twists.

Who put that ring in her purse and why? Who is the man in the photograph? The search for answers upends Anna’s life as she knew it up until that point. Leads her to another world. Causes well-hidden secrets and lies to come tragically to the surface.

Until Anna finds all the answers, lives are lost, loves are born…

In her new life, the ring that brought so many beautiful changes, is now unnecessary...

Nikos Palamidas was born in 1979 in Athens and grew up in Oropos, Attica, where he completed his studies. Accounting graduate, studied music. He speaks four languages fluently. Loves traveling and his passion is history.

He lives and works in England, in the field of catering. His love for literature began in his childhood, as his mother introduced him to the work of Greek writers. In 2021 Atechnos Editions published the detective novel “Score settling in Aegean” and in 2022 “The girl in the photograph” and “The friend”.

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This exciting initiative, taking place 6-9 March 2023 in Bologna, organized in collaboration with the Italian Publishers Association (AIE), was launched in 2021 to run in parallel to the Bologna Children’s Book Fair, providing a rights trading opportunity for the wider general trade audience a...

11/04/2023

Thessaloniki international book fair 2023 4-7/5
Pavilion 13, stand 68
Byron Publications

This exciting initiative, taking place 6-9 March 2023 in Bologna, organized in collaboration with the Italian Publishers Association (AIE), was launched in 2021 to run in parallel to the Bologna Children’s Book Fair, providing a rights trading opportunity for the wider general trade audience a...

10/04/2023

From the interview of our author, Sandra Angel, on the news channel Neon NewsHD.pk

13/03/2023

My name is Twelve / Lily Gati

Twelve is a little ant with big dreams, whose nest is very modest for them to fit. He wants to be exceptional and not just another number among the thousand numbers of the world ant history. So, he dreams to be a conqueror Legionnaire who rattles his claws and at the same time he tries to escape from all the punishments everybody gives him. What will happen, though, when the real rattling claws comes? Will his feelers endure the horror of war?
Twelve is marching and you will love him.

13/03/2023

Manifesto Of the Communist Party
By KARL MARX and FREDERICK ENGELS

Is a political pamphlet written by German philosophers Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. Commissioned by the Communist League and originally published in London in 1848, the Manifesto remains one of the world's most influential political documents. It presents an analytical approach to class struggle and criticizes capitalism and the capitalist mode of production, without attempting to predict communism's potential future forms.

The Communist Manifesto summarises Marx and Engels' theories concerning the nature of society and politics, namely that, in their own words, "[t]he history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles". It also briefly features their ideas for how the capitalist society of the time would eventually be replaced by socialism. In the last paragraph of the Manifesto, the authors call for a "forcible overthrow of all existing social conditions", which served as a call for communist revolutions around the world.

11/03/2023

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28/02/2023

FIFTEEN STEPS TO ABYSS / George Pοl. Papadakis
£11,90

Short stories that will take your breath away. Confessions of damned souls flirting with madness. Haunted houses, terrifying icons of lost civilizations, curses, bottomless wells with ancient secrets, nightmares and all this within a framework of "romantic horror", with amazing descriptions and philosophical implications. Stories plucked from the darkness of the 19th century with ''Lovecraftian'' beauty and ''Poestrian'' insanity.

The reader is immersed in a gothic universe of primordial secrets, while marveling at the questions of life and death posed by the author, artfully philosophizing. Elsewhere the agony and the gradual descent into madness, and elsewhere the allusive horror that lingers, fascinate and captivate.

CV:

George Pοl. Papadakis (Polychronis) is a Greek writer and poet. He was born in Athens and from an early age showed an inclination towards literature and writing. His interests range from poetry, prose, the essay, literary criticism, children's books, comics and studies.

He writes articles in literary magazines. Among other things, he is engaged in lyric writing, his verses have been set to music by important Greek composers. In October 2008 his book "The Little Fugitives and the House in the Woods" was presented at the intellectual center of the city hall of Montreal, Canada. In May 2014, his self-titled children's opera was presented in a Moscow theater.

He completed university studies in mathematics and European culture, while he is a scholar and researcher of artistic folk song.

28/02/2023

The Trojan Woman / Euripides
£9,90

The Trojan Women’’ (Ancient Greek: Τρωάδες, romanized: Trōiades, Greek title: Troades), is a tragedy by the Greek playwright Euripides. Produced in 415 BC during the Peloponnesian War.

The Trojan Women was the third tragedy of a trilogy dealing with the Trojan War.

It begins first with the gods Athena (Pallas) and Poseidon discussing ways to punish the Greek armies because they condoned that Ajax the Lesser r***d Cassandra, the eldest daughter of King Priam and Queen Hecuba, after dragging her from a statue of Athena.
What follows shows how much the Trojan women have suffered as their grief is compounded when the Greeks dole out additional deaths and divide their shares of women.

Euripides's play follows the fates of the women of Troy after their city has been sacked, their husbands killed, and their remaining families taken away as slaves.

Euripides (c. 480 – c. 406 BC) was a tragedian of classical Athens.

Along with Aeschylus and Sophocles, he is one of the three ancient Greek tragedians for whom any plays have survived in full. Some ancient scholars attributed ninety-five plays to him, but the Suda says it was ninety-two at most. Of these, eighteen or nineteen have survived more or less complete (Rhesus is suspect).

Euripides is identified with theatrical innovations that have profoundly influenced drama down to modern times, especially in the representation of traditional, mythical heroes as ordinary people in extraordinary circumstances. This new approach led him to pioneer developments that later writers adapted to comedy, some of which are characteristic of romance. He also became "the most tragic of poets", focusing on the inner lives and motives of his characters in a way previously unknown.

He was born on Salamis Island around 480 BC, with parents Cleito (mother) and Mnesarchus (father), a retailer who lived in a village near Athens. His education was not confined to athletics, studying also painting and philosophy under the masters Prodicus and Anaxagoras. He had two disastrous marriages, and both his wives—Melite and Choerine (the latter bearing him three sons)—were unfaithful. He became a recluse, making a home for himself in a cave on Salamis (the Cave of Euripides, where a cult of the playwright developed after his death). "There he built an impressive library and pursued daily communion with the sea and sky". The details of his death are uncertain. It was traditionally held that he retired to the "rustic court" of King Archelaus in Macedonia, where he died in 406 BC.
Extand plays:
Alkestis, Hippolitus, Andromache, Electra, Hercules, The Trojan Women, Medea, Hecuba, Ion, Iphigenia in Aulis. Iphigenia in Tauris etc.

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28/02/2023

Medea / Eyripides
£9,90

MEDEA

‘’Medea’’ is a unique Greek drama by Euripides depicts the ending of her union with Jason, when after ten years of marriage, Jason abandons her to wed King Creon's daughter Creusa. Medea and her sons by Jason are to be banished from Corinth.

Medea, is a woman scorned, rejected by her husband Jason and revenge seeking.

In this play, Euripides shocked the public by writing a tragedy that has remained one of the most classic of the ancient Greek theater, with many references and analyzes of whether Medea is a heartless murderer or a victim of a patriarchal logic at the time when the Euripides wrote the tragedy.

Euripides (c. 480 – c. 406 BC) was a tragedian of classical Athens.
Along with Aeschylus and Sophocles, he is one of the three ancient Greek tragedians for whom any plays have survived in full. Some ancient scholars attributed ninety-five plays to him, but the Suda says it was ninety-two at most. Of these, eighteen or nineteen have survived more or less complete (Rhesus is suspect).

Euripides is identified with theatrical innovations that have profoundly influenced drama down to modern times, especially in the representation of traditional, mythical heroes as ordinary people in extraordinary circumstances. This new approach led him to pioneer developments that later writers adapted to comedy, some of which are characteristic of romance. He also became "the most tragic of poets", focusing on the inner lives and motives of his characters in a way previously unknown.

He was born on Salamis Island around 480 BC, with parents Cleito (mother) and Mnesarchus (father), a retailer who lived in a village near Athens. His education was not confined to athletics, studying also painting and philosophy under the masters Prodicus and Anaxagoras. He had two disastrous marriages, and both his wives—Melite and Choerine (the latter bearing him three sons)—were unfaithful. He became a recluse, making a home for himself in a cave on Salamis (the Cave of Euripides, where a cult of the playwright developed after his death). "There he built an impressive library and pursued daily communion with the sea and sky". The details of his death are uncertain. It was traditionally held that he retired to the "rustic court" of King Archelaus in Macedonia, where he died in 406 BC.
Extand plays:
Alkestis, Hippolitus, Andromache, Electra, Hercules, The Trojan Women, Medea, Hecuba, Ion, Iphigenia in Aulis. Iphigenia in Tauris etc

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25/02/2023

See you in Bologna
Hall 29 / Stand 4D

25/02/2023

Japan in the Pacific War Augustine Kobayashi

On the morning of December 7, 1941, a "cloud" of Japanese fighter and bomber planes appeared on the horizon. The unsuspecting American sailors at the Pearl Harbor base had no idea that that day would be fatal for them and would mark the beginning of a titanic duel between two World War II era superpowers.
Augustin Kobayashi's work "Japan in the Pacific War" is a measured and comprehensive look at the events that shook his homeland. With objectivity and methodology, the Japanese historian highlights another interesting point of view, which does not always coincide with the view of Western historians and also introduces the reader to the way the Japanese experienced and participated in this fierce conflict...

Augustine Kobayashi
Augustine Kobayashi was born in Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, Japan. His passion for history began when he was studying ancient Greek history as a teenager. He studied history in Britain, but as his English was limited he was forced to study British and Western European history. However, he was still interested in the eastern Mediterranean which prompted him to write his thesis on the Eastern Mediterranean campaigns of 1944-45. He subsequently undertook postgraduate research (MPhil) at the University of Leeds on British diplomacy in the 1920s, with a focus on strategic and defence issues.
While participating in a project to revise our Eurocentric view of world history (which included reconsidering the importance of the Indian Ocean as a trade route in antiquity), he "discovered" Byzantium. So he returned to London to study Byzantine history, doing related postgraduate studies at Royal Holloway, University of London in 2009. His conclusion is that in order to complete the mosaic of world history, the contribution of Byzantine culture deserves to be appreciated and studied as an important cultural centre in this corner of Eurasia. His academic and research interests focus on late Roman and Byzantine maritime history.
The publishing house "Historical Quest" publishes his books "Japan in the Pacific War" (December 2016) and "World War II in the Mediterranean" (September 2019). He participated in the collective work "Unwinding the Thread of Time", which was also published by "Historical Quest" in February 2017.

25/02/2023

Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde / Robert Louis Stevenson

Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde is a 1886 Gothic novella by Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson. It follows Gabriel John Utterson, a London-based legal practitioner who investigates a series of strange occurrences between his old friend Dr. Henry Jekyll and a murderous criminal named Edward Hyde.
Dr. Jekyll is a "large, well-made, smooth-faced man of fifty with something of a slyish cast", who sometimes feels he is battling between the good and evil within himself, leading to the struggle between his dual personalities of Henry Jekyll and Edward Hyde. He has spent a great part of his life trying to repress evil urges that were not fitting for a man of his stature. He creates a serum, or potion, in an attempt to separate this hidden evil from his personality. In doing so, Jekyll transformed into the smaller, younger, cruel, remorseless, and evil Hyde. Jekyll has many friends and an amiable personality, but as Hyde, he becomes mysterious and violent. As time goes by, Hyde grows in power. After taking the potion repeatedly, he no longer relies upon it to unleash his inner demon, i.e., his alter ego. Eventually, Hyde grows so strong that Jekyll becomes reliant on the potion to remain conscious throughout the book.
Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde is one of the most famous pieces of English literature, and is considered to be a defining book of the gothic horror genre.

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Robert Louis Stevenson (13 November 1850 – 3 December 1894) was a Scottish novelist, essayist, poet and travel writer. He is best known for works such as Treasure Island, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Kidnapped and A Child's Garden of Verses.
Born and educated in Edinburgh, Stevenson suffered from serious bronchial trouble for much of his life, but continued to write prolifically and travel widely in defiance of his poor health.
In 1890, he settled in Samoa where, alarmed at increasing European and American influence in the South Sea islands, his writing turned away from romance and adventure fiction toward a darker realism.
He died of a stroke in his island home in 1894 at age 44.

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25/02/2023

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow / Washington Irving

‘’The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" is a short story, contained in the collection of 34 essays and short stories titled The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" was first published in 1820. Along with Irving's companion piece "Rip Van Winkle", "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" is among the earliest examples of American fiction with enduring popularity, especially during Halloween because of a character known as the Headless Horseman believed to be a Hessian soldier who was decapitated by a cannonball in battle.
The story is set in 1790 in the countryside around the Dutch settlement of Tarry Town (historical Tarrytown, New York), in a secluded glen known as Sleepy Hollow. Sleepy Hollow is renowned for its ghosts and the haunting atmosphere that pervades the imaginations of its inhabitants and visitors.
Some residents say this town was bewitched during the early days of the Dutch settlement, while others claim that the mysterious atmosphere was caused by an old Native American chief, subjected to various supernatural and mysterious occurrences. They are subjected to trance-like visions and frequented by strange sights, music, and voices "in the air."
The inhabitants of Sleepy Hollow are fascinated by the "local tales, haunted spots, and twilight superstitions" on account of the mysterious occurrences and haunting atmosphere. The most infamous spectre in the Hollow, and the "commander-in-chief of all the powers of the air," is the Headless Horseman. He is supposedly the restless ghost of a Hessian trooper whose head had been shot off by a stray cannonball during "some nameless battle" of the Revolution, and who "rides forth to the scene of battle in nightly quest of his head".

CV
Washington Irving (April 3, 1783 – November 28, 1859) was an American short-story writer, essayist, biographer, historian, and diplomat of the early 19th century. He is best known for his short stories "Rip Van Winkle" (1819) and "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" (1820), both of which appear in his collection "The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent."
Irving served as American ambassador to Spain in the 1840s.
Born and raised in Manhattan to a merchant family, Irving made his literary debut in 1802 with a series of observational letters to the Morning Chronicle, written under the pseudonym Jonathan Oldstyle.
He continued to publish regularly throughout his life, and he completed a five-volume biography of George Washington just eight months before his death at age 76 in Tarrytown, New York.
Irving was one of the first American writers to earn acclaim in Europe, and he encouraged other American authors such as Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Herman Melville and Edgar Allan Poe. He was also admired by some British writers, including Lord Byron, Thomas Campbell, Charles Dickens, Mary Shelley, Francis Jeffrey and Walter Scott. He advocated for writing as a legitimate profession and argued for stronger laws to protect American writers from copyright infringement.

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05/02/2023

Frankestein / Mary Shelley

Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus is an 1818 novel written by English author Mary Shelley. Frankenstein tells the story of Victor Frankenstein, a young scientist who creates a sapient creature in an unorthodox scientific experiment. Shelley started writing the story when she was 18, and the first edition was published anonymously in London on 1 January 1818, when she was 20. Her name first appeared in the second edition, which was published in Paris in 1821.

In 1816 Mary, Percy and Lord Byron had a competition to see who could write the best horror story. After thinking for days, Shelley was inspired to write Frankenstein after imagining a scientist who created life and was horrified by what he had made.
Though Frankenstein is infused with elements of the Gothic novel and the Romantic movement, Frankenstein seems to be the first true science-fiction story. The novel has had a considerable influence on literature and on popular culture; it has spawned a complete genre of horror stories, films, and plays.

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Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, 30 August 1797 – 1 February 1851) was an English novelist who wrote the Gothic novel Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus (1818), which is considered an early example of science fiction and one of her best-known works. She also edited and promoted the works of her husband, the Romantic poet and philosopher Percy Bysshe Shelley. Her father was the political philosopher William Godwin and her mother was the philosopher and women's rights advocate Mary Wollstonecraft.
In 1814, Mary began a romance with one of her father's political followers, Percy Bysshe Shelley, who was already married. They married in late 1816, after the su***de of Percy Shelley's first wife, Harriet.
In 1816, the couple and Mary's stepsister famously spent a summer with Lord Byron and John William Polidori near Geneva, Switzerland, where Shelley conceived the idea for her novel Frankenstein in 1818 for Italy, where their second and third children died before Shelley gave birth to her last and only surviving child, Percy Florence Shelley. In 1822, her husband drowned when his sailing boat sank during a storm near Viareggio. A year later, Shelley returned to England and from then on devoted herself to the upbringing of her son and a career as a professional author. The last decade of her life was dogged by illness, most likely caused by the brain tumour which killed her at age 53.

04/02/2023

Bram Stoker/ Dracula

Dracula is more than a book, it is a global brand, a name, a character that includes many different elements and interpretations.
Begins with Jonathan Harker's journey through Transylvania to Dracula's castle, after being warned by many locals that Dracula is not someone you want to visit after dark.
Jonathan Harker enters a Victorian era world full of twists and surprises.
Over time his encounter with Dracula made him slowly realize that his host is something inhuman and completely evil. He is full of paranoia.
The correspondence of his fiancée, Lucy Westenra with Mina Murray, presents us with a lot of Victorian everyday life but also the development of a strong love triangle.
The story itself is heartbreaking, full of the emotion of the characters as they deal with life, death and love. Dracula touches on many themes, savagery, love, religion etc. It leaves you thinking upon it for a long time afterwards and is required reading for any fan of horror or vampires.
If you love vampire’s stories definitely Dracula is THE vampire novel.

CV
Abraham Stoker (8 November 1847 – 20 April 1912) was an Irish author.
In his early years, Stoker worked as a theatre critic for an Irish newspaper, and wrote stories as well as commentaries. He also enjoyed travelling, particularly to Cruden Bay where he set two of his novels. During another visit to the English coastal town of Whitby, Stoker drew inspiration for writing Dracula. He died on 20 April 1912 due to locomotor ataxia and was cremated in north London. Since his death, his magnum opus Dracula has become one of the most well-known works in English literature, and the novel has been adapted for numerous films, short stories, and plays.