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|  | | A Cafe In Arcadia
Allan Krokkos arrives in a remote insular town in southern Greece.He encountres a group of jaded ex pats at odds with the locals who in turn are at odds with themselves.The popular culture of early1990s Greece sets the scene as the lives of every day rural folk and exraordinary expats interweave with Greek politics , pop music , films from the golden age of greek cinema,orthodox rituals and holy days in this humourous,soulsearching novel about culture clashes,searching,acceptance and rejection
A group of jaded ex pats at odds with themselves clash with locals at odds with each other in a remote insular greek town. The towns dramas,dilemmas and secrets slowly unfold as daily life interweaves with politics, orthodox ritual and popular culture in the Greece of the early nineteen nineties
| |  | | It Came Upon One Christmas Eve
The Spirit of Christmas shines out of this enchanting, festive, warm book of short stories.
font face="Arial" size="2"> A set of six storiesthat all take place on December 24th , to be read over the Christmas season.The stories settings range from a boy who spends Christmas at his ancestoral country mansion to an immigrant`s balmy Christmas night in Australia.As well as a driver`s encounter with two curious strangers on his road home from midnight mass and A German born child`s experience of Christmas in post war 1940s Britain./font> | |  | | The Christmas Tree of Tales
The Spirit of Christmas shines out of this enchanting, festive, warm book of short stories.
The Christmas Tree of Tales is a collection of short stories that span the festive season. br />
- Mystical strangers some benevelant br />
- Some not so! br />
- Memories of past Christmases come back as a former inhabitant returns to his home town. br />
- Were School days the happiest days of our lives? br />
- The mundane boredom of Christmas in a snowbound castle soon ends . br />
- Alone at Christmas with the sea for company. br />
- Mysterious children on a Greek island br />
- Lunch with the elderly as they plan a christmas. br />
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Global Icons by Bishnupriya Gnosh
by Judy Joy Jones
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 Bishnupriya Ghosh, Professor at University of Santa Barbara contacted me asking to use my painting of Mother Teresa in her upcoming book, "Global Icons" which was published by Duke University Press Books. You may see Judy Jones's painting of Mother T |
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