Sara Alexi, best selling author of the Greek Village Series was born in Oxford, England. She has travelled widely and now spends much of her time in a tiny rural village in the Peloponnese, in Greece, where she is (very slowly!) renovating a ruined stone farmhouse, whilst observing the Greek way of life and absorbing…
Book Four in the Greek Village Series Cross with her father, Abby, 17, boards a flight to Greece, but gets hopelessly lost and ends up in the wrong village. Alone, with very little money, no Greek and no way to contact her friend Jackie, who has lined up a bar job for her, Abby realises…
Book Five Michelle has always had a positive attitude to work and responsibility and has made all the ‘right’ choices. Why then does she feel she might have ended up in the wrong place? Disenchanted with life as a high-flying lawyer in London, when her firm decides to send her to Athens to handle a…
Book One. Driven by a need for some control in her life, Juliet sells up on impulse and buys a dilapidated farmhouse in a tiny Greek village, leaving her English life behind. The house is livable by local standards, but the job of restoring the garden is too big. It requires strength. Juliet cannot bring…
Book Two. Marina is a gentle soul who makes a modest living in her corner shop in the village. Her husband, Manolis, died years ago, and her children have grown up. She is surrounded by people she grew up with and life is pleasantly predictable, if a little dull. But not even her daughters know…
A Greek man and the English man are arguing whose language has the most words. The Greek man is adamant Greek has more words than English. The England man is equally adamant that English is the richer language. They continued to argue as they continued to drink until finally the English man says ‘It is…
If you look on the side of a packet of hair dye you will see pictures of how light – or dark – you hair will go by using the product depending on your original hair colour. There should be some such diagram for writers with regards the ten points that follow. They WILL improve…
Last July, 2012, I said to a “proper” writer ‘Hey I have had this idea for a book it goes like this…’ He replied ‘It is too it was tricky to write someone else’s ideas why don’t you write it yourself. Then came my excuses. Dyslexic. Bottom in English at school. Can’t even write a…
Well for some time I have occupied the top three slots on Amazon.co.uk in both Greece sections. As the summer draws closer I am glad to relinquish the number three slot to a guide book every now and again but The Greek Village series keep sliding back up there. I am immensely proud of this…
Watching the battle for e-readers between The Kindle, The Nook, IPad mini, Kobo and so on had convinced me that compact readers were a relatively newly invented idea. However there are claims that as early as 1949 Angela Ruz invented the first e-reader using pressurized air. She was inspired to invent the gadget to relieve…
I am lucky enough to have been to India. I bought the Lonely Planet guide and spent hours planning and reading but somehow I missed this in Abhaneri. It is made up of 3,500 narrow steps which goes down f0r 100 feet allowing people to fetch water all the year round. Classic Hindu architecture it…
Just had to share this video. I am perpetually in awe of people. From old ladies who learn how to live alone to young mums that lifts cars to save their babies, the injured using cyber limbs. Some of the things people do, or train themselves to do are simply unbelievable.
