John Manuel

After living on Rhodes for 14 years, John Manuel relocated in 2019 to a small corner of south-eastern Crete. He'd married a half-Greek girl in the UK when he was a young man. Since moving to Greece he's written six amusing memoir books about his Greek experience, plus a growing number of novels, all with a decidedly Greek flavour.

There is very little of the country of Greece that John Manuel hasn't visited. Regarding his "memoir" books he says: "Don't read them expecting a thriller, a storyline, a novel or a moral. Read them to perhaps have a chuckle, or a brief virtual visit to all sorts of places in Greece."

The most recent non-fiction book from John is 'Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Greece but Were too Afraid to Ask,' a tongue-in-cheek mini guide to every aspect of Greece, her modern history, her mythology, her geography, her music, in fact just about everything that the novice might want to learn about, and they will, hopefully while being made to laugh along the way.

John's latest work of fiction is "The Lone Refugee," a novel aimed at helping people to perhaps adjust their view of the major refugee crisis of recent times. As his readers have come to expect, there is a twist or two in the story, one of which hits the reader in the last few lines of the narrative.

He also runs a reading group on Facebook called "A Good Greek Read" for people who love to read about things Greek.

Follow John's regular life in a small village in southern Crete on his blog "Accretions."