We are already half way through August and the summer is slowly coming to an end. Most of us are, nonetheless, still located at a beach somewhere in Greece where there is nothing better than letting go to the caress of the sun and sea in the company of a good book. Culture, romance, fiction, action, commercial, adventure, alternative, poetry...whichever your favourite style may be, read on and find out a few of the most interesting suggestions for this summer.

"Inferno", by Dan Brown

Brand new and already very popular. Professor Robert Langton, in his latest adventures in Italy is called to solve a dark riddle that will bring him face to face with tremendous discoveries about the future of the world. Read on and let the mystery fascinate you.

"Τhe black sheep", by Gunnar Staalesen

A fictional mystery that could well become a Hollywood blockbuster. The hero is a loser and the plot of dark humor and deep psychological streak. Easy to read from cover to cover in a very short time.

"Τhe house of shades", by Chryssa Dimoulidou (in Greek)

Author Chryssa Dimoulidou returns with a romantic fiction full of mysteries and passion whose story takes place in Athens of the year 1938. Her eccentric character and the way she writes has become a mania for her fanatic readers. Her new book was published in May of this year and comes at the top of sales being an ideal choice for keeping you company at the beach.

"My name is Ntata", by Lena Manta (in Greek)

Female author much loved and appreciated mostly by female readers who showed great preference to her previous publication «Τhe house next to the river».Her new book is based on the story of beautiful Ntata who is «guilty for all the sins that the Church or the Police could ever think of, but she does not feel guilty of anything».

"Great authors write the smallest stories of the world"
"Brevity is the sister of talent" said Anton Chekhov and proved it is so himself through his work. This is also proved by the stories in a book for every level of concentration, narrations fitting all sorts of time spans and reading needs for every available moment. The particular book compiles 140 "exciting, moving, grotesque, optimistic" stories from great writers such as F. Scott Fitzgerald, Somerset Mom, Franz Kafka, Patricia Highsmith, Bertolt Brecht, John Irving and others.

"Letters to Nora" by James Joyce
A book which will challenge you as long as you dare to read it. The tender, extreme, bold and sometimes harsh worded letters of James Joyce to his partner Nora Barnacle, is basically a chronicle of their love: lyricism, elation and doubt, faith and rage, jealousy and clash between them, religious awe and wows of eternal love encounter anxiety about communication and a deep desire for the perfection of a physical and mental match. Joyce sees Nora as a source of inspiration, as his accomplice, his student and mentor, his lover and his confessor and seeks continuous conversation even when she "does not listen". "Accept me in the soul of your soul" begs Joyce “and I'll become the poet of my race”.

"Τhe apple originates from heaven" by Elena Akrita (in Greek)

Eva was the only woman that ever cooked but her husband never said to her “delicious but my mother does it better!” Author Elena Akrita reveals the truth behind the events of the Bible. We all know what happened but with the passing of years many things have been twisted and turned and misunderstood. It is time that things were brought back to light as they really are. And this is precisely the aim of this particular book.

"When Nietzsche wept" by Irving Yalom
Through a series of secret agreements, the great German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche and the Austrian physician Josef Breuer -one of the fathers of psychoanalysis-, meet in Vienna of the 19th century in an inspirational process of double psychotherapy. Within this adventure of existential search, there is an addition of characters of a young doctor named Sigmund Freud, a passionate woman named Lou Salome and a seductive patient named Anna O which haunts her doctor's soul.

"February", by Thodoris Georgakopoulos (in Greek)

An interactive fictional experiment worthy of our attention. Every day of a month, the author was uploading a chapter -as he completed it- on www.februarios.com, while the readers could read and leave their comments. 

From: Eva Kanellopoulos

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