Alex Christofi

A WATERSTONES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2024 "A brilliant exploration of Cyprus’s long history of cultural resilience. Superbly composed." -- Guardian "Poetic...Compelling" -- New Statesman One of National Geographic's Summer Reads 2024 Think of a place where you can stand at the intersection of Christian and Arab cultures, at the crossroads of the British, Ottoman, Byzantine, Roman and Egyptian empires;...

'A daring and mesmerizing twist on the art of biography' – Douglas Smith, author of Rasputin: The Biography 'Anyone who loves Dostoevsky's novels will be fascinated by this book' – Sue Prideaux, author of I Am Dynamite! A Life of Friedrich Nietzsche Dostoevsky’s life was marked by brilliance and brutality. Sentenced to death as a young revolutionary, he survived mock...