Search Results: Cyprus - Fiction from KALAMOS BOOKS

New York: A.A. Knopf, 1990 Book. As New. Hardcover. 1st US Edition. Volume Three of the "House of Niccolo" series. Charting the attempt of a dyer's apprentice from Bruges to better himself in the mercantile world of the Italian Renaissance. Niccolo has turned his back on his friends and the bank he has founded because he feels compelled to seek freedom. But he is not to find it as the Queen of Cyprus needs his skills against a dangerous rival. 534p. ,maps on endpapers.

London: Headline, 1988 Ex-Library. Very Good+. Hardcover. 1st UK Edition. Betrayal and suspense. 240p. Neat and complete, paper age toned. Minimal library marks.

London: Woman's Weekly Library, 1967 Ex-Library. Good. Soft cover. First Pbk.Ed... Vintage romance set in Cyprus "When Polly went out to Cyprus to join the boy she loved, she thought that she had lost him to Sylvia, the wealthy, beautiful half-Cypriot girl. Could the love of Major David Bicknell mend her broken heart?" Neat, tight copy with library stamps..

London: Allan Wingate, 1973 Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st UK Edition. Historical novel based on the story of Desdemona and Othello192p. Slight wrinkling on back of DJ,tape shadow, else fine..

London: Headline, 2014 Book. As New. Soft cover. Uncorrected Proof.. In the summer of 1972, Famagusta in Cyprus is the most desirable resort in the Mediterranean, a city bathed in the glow of good fortune. An ambitious couple open the island"s most spectacular hotel, where Greek and Turkish Cypriots work in harmony. Two neighbouring families, the Georgious and the Ãzkans, are among many who moved to Famagusta to escape the years of unrest and ethnic violence elsewhere on the island. But beneath the city"s façade of glamour and success, tension is building. When a Greek coup plunges the island into chaos, Cyprus faces a disastrous conflict. Turkey invades to protect the Turkish Cypriot minority, and Famagusta is shelled. Forty thousand people seize their most precious possessions and flee from the advancing soldiers. In the deserted city, just two families remain. This is their story.

Minneapolis MN: Nostos, 1998 Book. New. Soft cover. 1st.US Edition. NEW - Will be sent to you direct from the publisher. Translated from Greek by Donald E. Martin and and Soterios G Stavrou. Tetralogy of the Times is a powerful document capturing the mood of the Cypriot people, in Chekhovian sensibility fronm the years of their British colonial status to their present predicament. As the author points out"the shocking events of l955-1959 in Cyprus moved me as they moved other writers too, -to attempt to express the events and the climate of that era. The first section of the Tetralogy "Times immovable" portays the period before l955 when Cyprus was a British colony. it is followed by "times of difficulty" which canvasses the struggle of the Cypriot people for independence. The first years of independent Cyprus are captured in the third collection of stories called "Times of Affluence".It brings the story to l974 when the coup d'etat against Archbishop Makarios… Read More

Toronto: Harlequin, 1994 Book. As New. Pbk. First Thus. Harlequin romance[#1684] set in Cyprus .

New York: October House, 1965 Book. Illus. by October House. As New. Hardcover. 1st.US Edition.. Wide ranging anthology of translations of poetry, prose and art by modern Cypriots. 192p + Plates.. illus..