Marina Christofides
The Island Everyone Wanted
An illustrated history of Cyprus
Did you know that Cyprus was once at the bottom of the sea?
Or that it gave its name to copper and not the other way round?
Or that Mark Anthony gave it to Cleopatra as a token of his love?
That the island’s rulers once all spoke French?
That it was the first country in the world from where malaria was eradicated?
This award-winning book is full of fun facts like these.
It's a history book with a difference. One that children will WANT to read.
And grown ups will want to treasure for ever!
The fabulous illustrations fire the imagination with scenes from daily life and objects from each period, such as pottery, artefacts and architecture.
Hardback only.
Available in English, Greek and Turkish.
Spot the ancient figurine hidden on almost every page going down through the ages
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Lonely Planet 2012 Guide to Cyprus
Best illustrated children's book award
Cyprus National Book Award Winner
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“Which is the Greek coffee and which the Turkish?”
In Cyprus the way you order coffee can get you into trouble, as even coffee is political.
But not for the author and her group of friends from both sides of the divide, who don’t want to identify themselves as either Greek or Turkish, but as Cypriots.
They are the Traitors’ Club, traitors because they are friends and because they have a goal that the rest of their compatriots don’t seem to share – to live together as one people.
Through playful banter over coffee in an Ottoman courtyard in the divided capital, Nicosia, they share their moving, funny and harrowing experiences of anticolonial struggle, internecine fighting, war, partition and endless, ineffective peace negotiations, in what has become known as ‘the Cyprus problem’.
Also available from the following bookshops in Cyprus:
Nicosia: Solonion bookshop, Severis Foundation's Centre of Visual Arts and Research, MAM bookshop;
Limassol: K.P.Kyriakou Bookshop, Kyriakou bookshop (Ayios Athanasios)
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The Traitors' Club
A memoir
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