For many years, Peter Papathanasiou’s parents could never find the right time or the right words to tell him the story of his birth. His mother Elizabeth worried that she …

Author Jennifer Barclay has called the Dodecanese island of Tilos her home for the past 10 years. It was the base from which she spent more than four years exploring …

Be it studying, preparing or teaching it, food has been a big part of Meni Valle’s life. And growing up as a Melburnian-Greek, it was only natural to fall in …

Battles, intrigue, good vs evil, romance, history and betrayal…. Welcome to the year 1453. 1453 is told as a story by the emperor’s secretary, George Sphrantzes, which includes a number …

The first thing to note about South Australian journalist Stephanie Timotheou’s bilingual children’s book Cooking with Yiayia, is that it is beautifully illustrated. The lines are simple and yet have …

The story of the Holocaust in the Second World War is one of the most terrible and heart-rending events in the 20th century. The murder of six million civilians purely …

Savvas Koktzoglou is a retired mechanical engineer, a Greek American from Chicago, Illinois. He is a native of Drama, in Greece’s province of Macedonia, a child of Pontic Greeks from …

When Cypriot-Australian Helena Kidd stumbled across her mother’s handwritten diary, she had it translated for her family. Through Maria Avraam’s eyes, the family discovered the mental and physical abuse she …

It is autumn in Greek Melbourne. At least that is what one is to understand from the front cover of author and academic Dr Christos Fifis’ latest book, Ελληνοαυστραλιανά Διηγήματα. …

Author Dr Tony Whitefield answers a few questions about his beloved island of Lemnos, the stories that surround Hypsipyle the heroine of his novel The Queen of Limnos. Dr Whitefield …