Archive - Author's Notes

Ghost Flight Book Launch Reading 1/4

An extract from Aristos's part of Ghost Flight, as read at the book's 26 June 2025 launch in Nicosia.

Aug 1 •

July 2025

Interview with Eva Asprakis, author of Ghost Flight

In conversation with Matthew Phillip Long at Hambis Municipal Printmaking Museum Nicosia, 26 June 2025.

Jul 1 •

May 2025

Ghost Flight: Chapter Twenty-Six

When Petros enters the bungalow where he grew up – the door hangs open, as always – he finds his mother and grandparents at the table, with plates of…

May 6 •

April 2025

Ghost Flight: Chapter Eighteen

Wendy’s sleeve drags through spilled beer, and she grits her teeth. January was always a grim month in England, with the comedown from Christmas and the…

Apr 25 •

Ghost Flight: Chapter Ten

On the day of her first solo meetup with Wendy, Melina wakes before dawn. Petros lies sleeping with his back to her, his breaths washing up and away…

Apr 18 •

Ghost Flight: Chapter Two

He likes her because she is incurious. Critical, considered, but with no interest in other people or their pasts . . .

Apr 11 •

Ghost Flight: Chapter One

Petros will return time and again to his place on bended knee, gazing up at her. Melina. The only woman he has ever loved . . .

Apr 4 •

March 2025

Writing When the Sky is Falling

When I was a child, my mother read me a bedtime story called Chicken Little. It began with an acorn falling from an oak tree and hitting Chicken Little…

Mar 7 •

February 2025

Are You Writing, or Are You a Writer?

When I was nineteen and employed at an inbound call center, answering the phones for solicitors and estate agents, I brought two things to my desk each…

Feb 7 •

December 2024

Writers: How Much Should We Be Talking About Our Works In Progress?

Here’s an idea. Try writing an article on how much you think you should be talking about your works in progress, without talking too much about your…

Dec 27, 2024 •

November 2024

How Journaling Has Changed My Life

You hear about it all the time. It is in vogue, to be well-read. Grateful. Dreamy. And to record the evidence . . .

Nov 29, 2024 •

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