Authors & Books About Corfu

A House in Corfu is the story of one of the most beautiful places on earth, still astonishingly unspoilt, on the west coast of Corfu. ISBN 0 099 42253 0

From Odysseus to the Durrells, expatriates and wanderers have washed up on Corfu, trying to find home. ISBN 0-7432-2039-0

An extraordinary Collection of Classic Corfiot recipes. It contains something for everyone and each dish seems equally mouth-watering. Toula, the author, own an acclaimed taverna on Agni beach and she writes the following introduction in this beautifully illustrated and descriptive hard back cookery book.

Corfu, unlike the rest of Greece, never fell under the Ottoman yoke despite vigorous attempts to conquer it. Over the centuries, under the successive dominations of the Venetians, the French and the British it has been more a part of the Western than the Levantine world and this gives it its unique quality. Edited by Frank Giles, with chapters by British and Greek contributors - including Gerald Durrell, John Julius Norwich and Andrew Sinclair - Corfu offers an all-embracing account of the island's rich history, its architecture, country estates, music, social customs, people and the flora and fauna. Cricket, the legacy left behind by the British in the 19th century, is naturally well covered as is Edward Lear, whose paintings of Corfiot landscapes and whose letters describing his visits provide a vivid testimonial to Corfu's attraction. The photographs in colour throughout are the work of two of the photographers: Fritz von der Schulenburg (whose 18th century ancestor, a mercenary general in the employ of the Venetian Republic, repelled an assault on Corfu by the Ottoman Turks) and Christopher Simon Sykes. Working together they have covered every aspect of the island. The result is a pictorial record of a place to which mainland Greeks and foreigners alike feel a compelling urge to return.

Corfu Banquet is a memoir with seasonal recipes. Corfu Banquet celebrates the tastes, scents and colours of an island where the cooking is seasonal and the flowers play changes on the theme of a year-round spring. ISBN 1 84024 366 X

Author of 'Corfu car tours and walks' to enjoy the local landscapes in Corfu Greece. ISBN 1-85691-268-X

Theresa first came to Corfu in 1961. If Corfu has an observer of its folklore and old customs equivalent to Dorset's Thomas Hardy, then Theresa Nicholas surely qualifies. ISBN 978-0-9547887-4-2

Rodney Agar, a former Royal navy frigate commander, has sailed from Corfu for the last 20 years with his family in their sloop 'Dozmare' to cruise amongst the Ionian Islands, Peloponnese and the Eastern Aegean. Having visited the scenes of the naval engagements described in the book, he and his wife have now built a villa in an olive grove above Kassiopi. The author hopes that his short nautical profile on such a unique, beautiful and friendly island will find a gap amongst the numerous historical works of Corfu. ISBN 0-9542531-0-8

ISBN 0-9547887-0-2

I don't know why my brothers and sister complain so much. With snakes in the bath and scorpions ont the lunch table, our house, on the island of Corfu, is a bit like a circus. So they should feel right at home...