Jim Potts

@DorchLitFest @BarnesSociety @hardysociety @MarkallenMAG Mark Allen launches his new novel at Shire Hall Museum, Dorchester, 6pm September 25. Please confirm if coming. See email in flyer. Welcome!

A white house set like a dice on a rock already venerable with the scars of wind and water. We are upon a bare promontory with its beautiful clean surface of metamorphic stone covered in olive and ilex. This is become our unregretted home. A world. Corcyra. — Lawrence Durrell

It takes 60 years to discover why Isabella, a beautiful Italian heiress, disappears from a workcamp at Locri, Calabria, in 1963. Find out the answer in The Bridge at Locri. The book comes out on 10th September. Call 01722 716997 or order online markallenauthor.com

Corfu, Greece. Don΄t drive into the town centre - you΄ll have problems! enimerosi.com/en/article/897…

My new book, The Bridge at Locri, a mystery-cum-social-history set in Calabria, then spanning 60 years, is coming out on 10th September. Order now and the book will cost £9.75 plus p&p, rather than £12.50. To order phone 01722 716997 or purchase online at http://markallenauthor.

The Bridge at Locri - Mark Allen markallenauthor.com/the-bridge-at-…

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One of many highlights from Science Week on the Sarantaporos River - a major tributary of the Aoos/Vjosa system - was seeing my first ever eels. Eels that had drifted from the Sargasso Sea before slipping upstream through Albania and Greece on rivers still free-flowing and wild.

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Remnants of Civil War: immediate and long-run effects of electoral oppression in cold war Greece | Greece@LSE blogs.lse.ac.uk/greeceatlse/20…

Bridehead Estate Littlebredy for sale for £30 million | Bridport and Lyme Regis News bridportnews.co.uk/news/24360399.…

William Barnes’ Rectory on the market! A wonderfully secluded old rectory in Dorset with spectacular gardens, dedicated wine room, and it's walking distance from the station - Country Life countrylife.co.uk/property/a-won…

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Mr Eugenides after the Burning of Smyrna: George Seferis and The Waste Land | University of Oxford Podcasts podcasts.ox.ac.uk/mr-eugenides-a…

Acropolis Museum Hosts Robert McCabe’s Photos of Post-war Greece | GTP Headlines news.gtp.gr/2024/05/28/acr…