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Well, Good Morning, Corfu: A Year on a Greek Island is going really well, with interest from national magazines and newspapers. Read about it here, on The Bridport Press website . And if you're an agent or publisher who'd like to work with me, please get in touch. In the wake of The Durrells , I can feel a new Corfu Trilogy coming on. That's about it. Love Maddie x

Well, the book's arrived and the launch at Waterstones, Bridport , has been announced. It will be this Saturday, 7 May, from 10am until 2pm. If you pop in after noon, you can have a taste of Thiasos wine, courtesy of Wessex Wines and made by one of the pioneers of the modern Greek wine revolution, Yiannis Paraskevopoulos, from vineyards in Nemea in the northeastern area of the Peloponnese peninsula. There's red and there's white . I'd planned to launch Good Morning, Corfu: A Year on a Greek Island  this Monday in my little village near Paleokastritsa. But I lost my dear dad a few days before so there was no way I was going to get on a plane and leave the family behind, especially after losing one of my lovely sisters suddenly in March. So the launch in the plateia will just have to wait and I will keep my Corfu friends posted. It's available as an ebook on Kindle, as a paperback or to order from bookshops. In the meantime, here's a taster ... ...

Easter in Corfu is the most incredible thing. In our eleven years of visiting this island, it is something we have been told about many times. 'You must come to Corfu at Easter,' our friend Jiannis told us. 'You will not believe it. The Greeks are famous for Easter but in Corfu, it is the best.' And how right he was. Words cannot describe the spectacle. Photos do not do it justice. You really have to be here to understand. A strange mixture of ritual, devotion, celebration, tradition, noise, ceremony, moving music, lots of eating and lots of fireworks combine to create a heady experience on a massive scale, with some poignant moments of detail in between. This is the place and time to come for an unforgettable long weekend break. All week, Corfu's famous bands have been at the forefront, along with the island's mummified patron, Saint Spiridon, who is paraded through the streets on Easter Saturday on one of his four outings a year. In the ...