"Bitter Lemons of Cyprus "is Lawrence Durrell's unique account of his time in Cyprus, during the 1950s "Enosis "movement for freedom of the island from British colonial rule. Winner of the Duff Cooper Memorial Prize, it is a document at once personal, poetic and subtly political - a masterly combination of travelogue, memoir and treatise.

'He writes as an artist, as well as a poet; he remembers colour and landscape and the nuances of peasant conversation . . . Eschewing politics, it says more about them than all our leading articles . . . In describing a political tragedy it often has great poetic beauty.' Kingsley Martin, "New Statesman"

'Durrell possesses exceptional qualifications. He speaks Greek fluently; he has a wide knowledge of modern Greek history, politics and literature; he has lived in continental Greece and has spent many years in other Greek islands . . . His account of this calamity is revelatory, moving and restrained. It is written in the sensitive and muscular prose of which he is so consummate a master.' Harold Nicolson, "Observer"

Bitter Lemons of Cyprus

It was an unique journey - a 600 mile trek on foot around Cyprus, in the last year of the island's peace. Colin Thubron writes about it and with great immediacy, intertwining myth, history and personal anecdote. What emerges is a tapestry from which characters and places, architectures and landscape all spring vividly to life.

As a guide to the island and its survival through centuries of turmoil, JOURNEY INTO CYPRUS is invaluable. As a fine narrative of travel, it is compelling.

"Thubron worked hard to know Cyprus. He is a sympathetic observer, but also a candid one. He never lets sentiment or expectation get in the way of truth." (Daily Telegraph)

Journey into Cyprus

Journalist Christopher Hitchens examines events leading up to the partition of Cyprus and its legacy. He argues that the intervention of four major foreign powers Turkey, Greece, Britain, and the United States turned a local dispute into a major disaster. In a new Afterword, Hitchens reviews the implications of Cyprus's applications for European Union membership and more. "224 pp".

Hostage to History: Cyprus from the Ottomans to Kissinger

It has been 25 years since Greek colonels staged a coup on Cyprus, ousting Greek-Cypriot leader Archbishop Makarios, and Turkey retaliated by invading and seizing a third of the island. The island remains split in two, policed by the United Nations. Henry Kissinger claimed he could do nothing to stop this because of the Watergate crisis. "The Cyprus Conspiracy" provides crucial evidence that this was no failure of American foreign policy, revealing for the first time the explosive strategic reasons why Washington had to divide the island.


The Cyprus Conspiracy: America, Espionage and the Turkish Invasion

Did you know that Cyprus was once at the bottom of the sea?
And that it gave its name to copper?
Or that Mark Anthony gave it to Cleopatra as a token of his love?
And that the island’s rulers once all spoke French?
Or 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 and adults 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.
 
Available in English, Greek and Turkish. Hardback only.

The Island Everyone Wanted: An illustrated history of Cyprus

For nearly 60 years--from its uprising against British rule in the 1950s, to the bloody civil war between Greek and Turkish Cypriots in the 1960s, the Turkish invasion of Cyprus in the 1970s, and the United Nation's ongoing 30-year effort to reunite the island--the tiny Mediterranean nation of Cyprus has taken a disproportionate share of the international spotlight. And while it has been often in the news, accurate and impartial information on the conflict has been nearly impossible to obtain. 

In The Cyprus Problem, James Ker-Lindsay--recently appointed as expert advisor to the UN Secretary-General's Special Advisor on Cyprus--offers an incisive, even-handed account of the conflict. Ker-Lindsay covers all aspects of the Cyprus problem, placing it in historical context, addressing the situation as it now stands, and looking toward its possible resolution. The book begins with the origins of the Greek and Turkish Cypriot communities as well as the other indigenous communities on the island (Maronites, Latin, Armenians, and Gypsies). Ker-Lindsay then examines the tensions that emerged between the Greek and Turkish Cypriots after independence in 1960 and the complex constitutional provisions and international treaties designed to safeguard the new state. He pays special attention to the Turkish invasion in 1974 and the subsequent efforts by the UN and the international community to reunite Cyprus. The book's final two chapters address a host of pressing issues that divide the two Cypriot communities, including key concerns over property, refugee returns, and the repatriation of settlers. Ker-Lindsay concludes by considering whether partition really is the best solution, as many observers increasingly suggest.

Written by a leading expert, The Cyprus Problem brings much needed clarity and understanding to a conflict that has confounded observers and participants alike for decades.

The Cyprus Problem: What Everyone Needs to Know(r)

A consortium of people determined to keep a secret safe. A woman hell-bent on exposing the truth. A relentless assassin hunting her down. 
 
The odds are heavily stacked against Emily. Armed with fortitude and determination, she does everything she can while the world around her crumbles. 
 
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Emily, a consultant specializing in financial forensics, discovers an unspeakable plot of ambition and greed. Her investigation uncovers a paper trail of obscure evidence that her client, a congressman and hopeful presidential candidate, is part of a corrupt consortium of individuals with links to international tax havens. 
 
As she learns more about her client and the consortium, a deadly cover-up quickly reaches her colleagues and inner circle of friends. Unsure of whom to trust and where to go, Emily is forced into hiding. 
 
With her life in the balance, she searches for the internal fortitude to battle and expose the consortium. Hindering her investigation is a ruthless assassin with his sights trained directly on her. While the people around her continue to perish, Emily stands up for what she believes is right, trying to preserve her moral compass amidst the chaos.

The Cyprus Papers

Twenty-year-old Amanda Derrington is on an extended cruise with her uncle when she decides to make a short side trip to the sun-washed island of Cyprus. But even before the ship arrives in port, there is a suspicious death. Once the passengers reach the island, it soon becomes clear that the death was in fact an act of murder. What Amanda had meant to be a pleasant excursion quickly takes a turn for the worse in this classic novel of suspense and romance by one of our most celebrated writers.

Death in Cyprus

A Traveller's History of Cyprus offers a complete and authoritative history of the island's past and also touches on the sensitive present-day issues for both sides of the island. Although Cyprus is a relatively small island, its position in the East Mediterranean has always given it strategic importance beyond its size. Well-placed for travel from all over the globe with plenty of sunshine throughout the year, Cyprus has become a favored tourist destination. All visitors, whether to the Greek or Turkish side of the island, discover the immensely rich history, which has resulted in so many civilizations making their mark upon its soil. With a historical gazetteer, chronology of major events, index, bibliography and historical and contemporary maps, this book is an invaluable companion to students or visitors to the island.

A Traveller's History of Cyprus

Cyprus ticks all the boxes. Sun. Sea. Cheap food and drink. Friendly, smiling people. How would you like to live there? Is this island heaven too good to be true? Surely there can be no darker side? Is there no lingering resentment from the colonial period and the bitter and vicious guerrilla war which ended it? 

What happens when Vic and his wife Gay come into contact with the real Cyprus, away from the garish, overdeveloped tourist resorts? They quickly find people even more friendly and generous than in the towns, although less likely to speak English. But they also discover terrible cruelty to animals; winter weather worse than tourists are led to believe; snakes, dangerous driving and earthquakes; hunters, armed to the teeth, excited and trigger happy; institutionalised hatred between Greek and Turkish Cypriots; racism and sexual exploitation of women tricked into coming to Cyprus from abroad. Is paradise lost?

Living in the Real Cyprus

On a sweltering day in July, 1878 the men of the 42nd Royal Highlanders - the Black Watch - waded ashore at Larnaca Bay to begin the British occupation of Cyprus. Today, Britons on sunbeds colonize the same stretch of sand, the latest visitors to an island which has long held a special place in the English imagination - and a controversial role in British imperial ambitions. 

Drawing on largely unpublished material, Tabitha Morgan reflects on why successive administrations failed, so catastrophically, to engage with their Cypriot subjects, and how social segregation, confusion about Cypriot identity and the poor caliber of so many administrators all contributed to the bloody conflict that led, finally, to Cypriot independence in 1960. "Sweet and Bitter Island" explores for the first time the unique bond between Britain and Cyprus and the complex, sometimes tense, relationship between the two nations which endures to the present day. Extensively researched and lyrically written, this is the definitive portrait of British colonial life on the Mediterranean island.

Sweet and Bitter Island: A History of the British in Cyprus

On April 23, 2003, to the surprise of much of the world, the ceasefire line that divides Cyprus opened. The line had partitioned the island since 1974, and so international media heralded the opening of the checkpoints as a historic event that echoed the fall of the Berlin Wall. As in the moment of the Wall's collapse, cameras captured the rush of Cypriots across the border to visit homes unwillingly abandoned three decades earlier. It was a euphoric moment, and one that led to expectations of reunification. But within a year Greek Cypriots overwhelmingly rejected at referendum a United Nations plan to reunite the island, despite their Turkish compatriots' support for the plan. In "The Past in Pieces", anthropologist Rebecca Bryant explores why the momentous event of the opening has not led Cyprus any closer to reunification, and indeed in many ways has driven the two communities of the island further apart.

This chronicle of the "new Cyprus" tells the story of the opening through the voices and lives of the people of one town that has experienced conflict. Over the course of two years, Bryant studied a formerly mixed town in northern Cyprus in order to understand both experiences of life together before conflict and the ways in which the dissolution of that shared life is remembered today. Tales of violation and loss return from the past to shape meanings of the opening in daily life, redefining the ways in which Cypriots describe their own senses of belonging and expectations of the political future. By examining the ways the past is rewritten in the present, Bryant shows how even a momentous opening may lead not to reconciliation but instead to the discovery of new borders that may, in fact, be the real ones.

The Past in Pieces: Belonging in the New Cyprus

GETTING IT WRONG provides unique and critical reportage of events in Cyprus in early 1964. Circulation of an original report by Packard, commissioned by the CRO in 1964, was embargoed by Whitehall, which also rejected a UN request for a copy. Why was the Foreign Office so sensitive over a report which did no more than describe a highly successful process of peacemaking? This book shows that Cypriots were readily able to find answers to their problems when given an appropriate mechanism through which to do so, despite extremism encouraged from abroad. Misrepresentations of 1964 history in Cyprus have been a major factor in complicating the search there for accord. Describing mediation that was successful because it was answerable to the Cypriots, rather than to any outside power, this book helps to put the record straight. personal testimony of fundamental importance for the critical year 1964. The book is important to both Greek Cypriots and Turkish Cypriots because it destroys respective propaganda as to what happened that year. (Costas Carras, book preview, 2008.) Find that man Packard. He can prove that Cypriots can live together. (Lord Caradon to Friends of Cyprus, 1988.) No foreigner knows better than you the reality of events in Cyprus in 1964. (Rauf Denktash to author, 1999.) I pressed hard for your return. . . . as I felt sure you were the only man who could re-establish contact which had been completely lost. (General Young, letter to author, 1965.) We, the soldiery, could never have attempted what you and your team were doing. (Field Marshal Gibbs, letter to author, 2002.) It is fortunate for Cyprus and its younger generations that Martin Packard has provided this testimony which contradicts much of the thrust of official archives. (Mario Evriviades, book preview, Phileleutheros, 2007.)"

Getting It Wrong: Fragments from a Cyprus Diary 1964

An overview of Cypriot history from the powerful empires that first inhabited the island to the 20th Century tug-of-war between Britain, Greece and Turkey. Forensically examining the actions and motives of key players in the story, ‘A Brief History of Cyprus’ provides a broad account from ancient times to the present day, creating a clear picture of the events that led to a land still divided by a Green Line.

A Brief History of Cyprus

With the bravura storytelling and pungent authenticity of detail she brought to her acclaimed Lymond Chronicles, Dorothy Dunnett presents The House of Niccolò series. The time is the 15th century, when intrepid merchants became the new knighthood of Europe. Among them, none is bolder or more cunning than Nicholas vander Poele of Bruges, the good-natured dyer's apprentice who schemes and swashbuckles his way to the helm of a mercantile empire.
      In 1462, Nicholas is a wealthy 21-year-old. His beloved wife has died. His stepchildren have locked him out of the family business. He and his private army are the target of multiple conspiracies. And both contenders for the throne of Cyprus, the brilliant Queen Carlotta and her charismatic, sexually ambivalent brother James, are demanding his support. Walking a tightrope of intrigue, Dunnett's hero juggles adversaries and allies, from the delectable courtesan Primaflora to the Mameluke commander Tzani-Bey al Ablak, a man of undiluted evil. Masterfully paced, alive with sensual delights, Race of Scorpions confirms Dorothy Dunnett as the grande dame of the genre.

Race of Scorpions (The House of Niccolo, #3)

PETER PARIS is the pseudonym for a young aspiring doctor just graduated from a London hospital who decided to start practice where he was most needed - in the Nicosia General Hospital in Cyprus. From the wealth of his experiences, he has written a fast, lively and extremely thoughtful book about Cyprus during the last year of the British occupation. Mr. Paris saw life in the rough there as he tried to keep alive the victims of both Turkish and Greek terrorists. His love and appreciation of the people - both Greek and Turkish Cypriots - gave him a perspective on this strategic little island that is England's nearest base to Russia. This is a doctor and a humanitarian speaking. His writing, both thoughtful and often wryly amusing, vividly evokes the life of the people and their war-torn island.

The Impartial Knife: A Doctor in Cyprus

It is July 1974 and on a bright, sunny morning, the Turkish army has invaded the town of Kyrenia in Cyprus. For many people, this means an end to their ordinary lives. But for some, it is a chance to begin living again. For one young woman, brought up without her mother and shunned by the community, the invasion brings an opportunity to, at long last, share her side of the story. To an invading soldier, it becomes a search for his one true love, lost years ago. And for a man far from the action, it brings memories of the past flooding into his mind – a woman, a child and a secret never told. A Watermelon, A Fish and a Bible is a breathtaking novel about love, loss, identity and what family really means.

A Watermelon, a Fish and a Bible

“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 colour 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, as over the course of their lives they went through an anticolonial struggle, internecine fighting, war, partition and endless, ineffective peace negotiations, in what has become known as ‘the Cyprus problem’.

The Traitors' Club: A Memoir

This guide book to Northern Cyprus offers the visitor information on all the important sites, along with practical information about how to reach them and detailed plans. This holiday destination has many important monuments and historic sites dating from the Hellenic period, through the Roman and the Byzantine eras, to the medieval crusader period and the age of the Ottoman empire. 


Northern Cyprus: A Traveller's Guide

A strange bet, with a vintage car at stake, results in an unlikely job for a college professor. Once a week, for an hour or so, he is obliged to drive an old man around. Almost as a hobby, the professor tries to uncover the old man's secretive past and in the meantime gets a healthy dose of his own medicine, education, from this unlikeliest of sources. Mr. Aris, the old man, proves to be a fountain of interesting though often obscure and even questionable information. All this makes for a refreshingly new perspective on life. This book is a treasure trove of fascinating facts. But it is a lot more than that. It is a tale of forbidden love and the terrible consequences of war. It is an account of abject struggle against poverty and a heart-warming love affair with a country - and a car. Adventure, friendship, romance, ancient mythology, modern history, mysterious old codes and all these against the backdrop of this beautiful Mediterranean island we know so little about...

Magnette: A Cyprus Odyssey

The narrative of Cyprus' recent history has created numerous attitudes and prejudices which run deep but which have never before been explored on a human level. Now for the first time Yiannis Papadakis, firmly planted in the Greek Cypriot world, sets out to discover "The Other"-- the much maligned Turks. Papadakis delves into the two communities, locked in their mutually contemptuous embrace, to explore their common humanity and to understand what has divided them.


Echoes from the Dead Zone: Across the Cyprus Divide

The British faced two serious problems – the first, the Greek Cypriots’ desire for Enosis and second, the intense rivalry and antipathy between the Greek and Turkish communities.

In 1955 the former resulted in a bitter EOKA terrorist campaign led by Colonel George Grivas. This resulted in the deaths of over 100 British servicemen. Nicosia’s ‘Murder Mile’ was the scene of many shootings. The Governor Field Marshal Harding narrowly escaped assassination in his residence. 

The next phase was the Turkish Government’s military intervention in 1974 to prevent what they saw as the Greek takeover. In a bloody invasion which saw widespread ‘ethnic cleansing’ and displacement of communities, the Island was divided into two sectors policed by the United Nations. This exists today, as do the British Sovereign Base areas at Dhekalia and Atrokiri/Episkopi.

This book describes the most troubled years of this beautiful island which is so well known to British servicemen, their families and vacationers.

The Cyprus Emergency: The Divided Island 1955 - 1974

An adventurous American academic travels to North Cyprus to teach at a new university. He has no idea what it will be like living and working in a country which has no official international recognition except by Turkey. All mail must be addressed to “Mersin-10, Turkey, to reach the north side of the Island. There is no internet or email. It is a lonesome existence and the mostly Turkish students are not prepared to study in English. It is a hard struggle and discouraging when the electrical power breaks down for several months. The Cyprus Problem is perpetually discussed with seemingly no possible solution in sight. The Greek and Turkish Cypriots keep playing their political games while the people seem to not care. In the politically charged atmosphere, it is treacherous and dangerous to even express one’s views of the situation. Nevertheless, there are rewards and frustrations. He comes to look at the absurdity of daily life with a sense of humor in order to survive.

Mersin-10, Turkey: Six Years in Northern Cyprus

When sixteen-year-old Polly O'Keefe journeys to Athens, she feels confused and betrayed. The past eight months at home were different from any other time in her life. She met the brilliant, wealthy Maximiliana Horne, who gave her encouragement and made her feel self-confident. Polly idolized Max, until she learned a startling truth that left her wounded and angry.

Now on a trip to Greece arranged by Max, Polly finds romance, danger, and unique friendships. But can she find a way to forgive Max and remember her as more than a painful memory?

A House Like a Lotus (O'Keefe Family, #3)

Only in Cyprus: A hilarious guide to living in Cyprus

Operation Sippacik

A travelogue of the author's time hiking the vast majority of the Appalachian Trail from Springer Mountain, Georgia to Mahoosuc Notch in Maine. She recounts the travails of attempting to thru-hike the entire trail and recalls the many characters she met who were also thru- hiking the 2,000 mile trai

Walking Home: A Woman's Pilgrimage on the Appalachian Trail

The European Union's enlargement has been considered a success story - apart from Cyprus and Turkey. This book looks at the EU's expansion and examines its effectiveness in terms of international socialization and compliance, focussing specifically on the socialization of Turkey and Cyprus into the Western community. Although NATO-member Turkey submitted its membership application long before the end of the Cold War, the Kemalist state still struggles to become the first Muslim EU member state. Cyprus was allowed to join the organization in 2004, but the island remains a divided entity.

Providing a comprehensive theoretical perspective, the book is divided into three parts and investigates three questions:



Why expand? From an EU / international organizations perspective.



Why join? From an applicants' perspective.



Why comply? Exploring why a state would choose to adapt to the EU's fundamental norms and rules from a candidates' perspective.

Contradicting the impression that the latest round of EU enlargement has been a model story of smooth and effective socialization from top to bottom, this book will be of interest to students and scholars of the EU, European politics, international relations and particularly those interested in Turkey and Cyprus.

Cyprus

Bitter Lemons of Cyprus

Lawrence Durrell

Journey into Cyprus

Colin Thubron

Hostage to History: Cyprus from the Ottomans to Kissinger

Christopher Hitchens

Bitter Lemons of Cyprus

Lawrence Durrell

The Cyprus Conspiracy: America, Espionage and the Turkish Invasion

Brendan O'Malley

The Island Everyone Wanted: An illustrated history of Cyprus

Marina Christofides

The Cyprus Problem: What Everyone Needs to Know(r)

James Ker-Lindsay

The Cyprus Papers

C.W. Bordener

Death in Cyprus

M.M. Kaye

A Traveller's History of Cyprus

Timothy Boatswain

Living in the Real Cyprus

Vic Heaney

Sweet and Bitter Island: A History of the British in Cyprus

Tabitha Morgan

The Past in Pieces: Belonging in the New Cyprus

Rebecca Bryant

Getting It Wrong: Fragments from a Cyprus Diary 1964

Martin Packard

A Brief History of Cyprus

Tommy Clark

Race of Scorpions (The House of Niccolo, #3)

Dorothy Dunnett

The Impartial Knife: A Doctor in Cyprus

Peter Paris

A Watermelon, a Fish and a Bible

Christy Lefteri

The Traitors' Club: A Memoir

Marina Christofides

Northern Cyprus: A Traveller's Guide

Eileen Davey

Magnette: A Cyprus Odyssey

Elmos Konis

Echoes from the Dead Zone: Across the Cyprus Divide

Yiannis Papadakis

The Cyprus Emergency: The Divided Island 1955 - 1974

Nick Van Der Bijl

Mersin-10, Turkey: Six Years in Northern Cyprus

Eddie James Girdner

A House Like a Lotus (O'Keefe Family, #3)

Madeleine L'Engle

Only in Cyprus: A hilarious guide to living in Cyprus

Chris Christodoulou

Operation Sippacik

Rumer Godden

Walking Home: A Woman's Pilgrimage on the Appalachian Trail

Kelly Winters

Eu Enlargement and Socialization: Turkey and Cyprus

Stefan Engert