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'THE GREEK FOR LOVE: LIFE, LOVE AND LOSS IN CORFU'
James Chatto
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Description for 'THE GREEK FOR LOVE: LIFE, LOVE AND LOSS IN CORFU'
Paperback. Part memoir, part love story, part wildly scenic travel piece, The Greek for Love is every bit as sumptuous as its setting Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 21. Weight in Grams: 230.
The two-line ad in the Sunday Times advertising Villa Parginos in Corfu conjured an image of long afternoons drinking wine on a marble patio shaded by a grape arbour, looking out over an impossibly blue Greek sea. Instead James Chatto and his wife Wendy got a little pink bungalow with linoleum, a buzzing fluorescent light and a patio separated from the village's main street by a wire fence. Yet Corfu delivered so much more than their wildest fantasy had suggested. There was the intoxicating warmth of the sun, walks along sage-bordered byways, and swimming naked off an ... Read more
The two-line ad in the Sunday Times advertising Villa Parginos in Corfu conjured an image of long afternoons drinking wine on a marble patio shaded by a grape arbour, looking out over an impossibly blue Greek sea. Instead James Chatto and his wife Wendy got a little pink bungalow with linoleum, a buzzing fluorescent light and a patio separated from the village's main street by a wire fence. Yet Corfu delivered so much more than their wildest fantasy had suggested. There was the intoxicating warmth of the sun, walks along sage-bordered byways, and swimming naked off an ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
JOHN MURRAY
Number of pages
320
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Condition
New
Weight
219g
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780719568626
SKU
V9780719568626
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Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-10
About James Chatto
James Chatto's award-winning writing on food, wine and travel appears frequently in leading magazines and newspapers in the UK, the US and Canada. He is the author of four cookery books and has been a contributor to many others. In an earlier incarnation Chatto was an actor, a singer and a saxophonist with a single that reached number two in ... Read more
Reviews for 'THE GREEK FOR LOVE: LIFE, LOVE AND LOSS IN CORFU'
'This sensual love story about two young people and Corfu, which became their home, is my book of the year . . . It is a book that will touch the hearts of all who read it'
Daily Mail 'Books for Christmas', Christopher Matthew
'Despite the tragedy, this is an optimistic book, the narrative skipping between past and ... Read more
Daily Mail 'Books for Christmas', Christopher Matthew
'Despite the tragedy, this is an optimistic book, the narrative skipping between past and ... Read more