Eve Makis - Books
(and film adventures)
Where the Earth Holds Secrets
Nuray is a journalist. Some call her a troublemaker. Or a sleuth with a knack for finding the hidden graves of the missing.
Haris has spent a lifetime avoiding the truth about his father’s disappearance. When Nuray reaches out for help on the case, he wants nothing to do with her. To him, she’s the enemy. Then forensic archaeologist Elena Wilkins, estranged from her family and seeking a new life, arrives on the island and starts digging for clues.
A body is buried. A truth hidden. Someone will do anything to keep it that way.
Nuray, Haris, and Elena must navigate lies, betrayal and their own entangled pasts to uncover the secrets that lie beneath their feet.
Fiction
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The Spice Box Letters
Katerina inherits a scented, wooden spice box after her grandmother Mariam dies. It contains letters and a diary, written in Armenian. As she pieces together her family story, Katerina learns that Mariam's childhood was shattered by the Armenian tragedy of 1915. Mariam was exiled from her home in Turkey and separated from her beloved brother, Gabriel, her life marred by grief and the loss of her first love.
Dissatisfied and restless, Katerina tries to find resolution in her own life as she completes Mariam's story – on a journey that takes her across Cyprus and then half a world away to New York. Miracles, it seems, can happen—for those trapped by the past, and for Katerina herself.
Historical Fiction
The Accidental Memoir
The Accidental Memoir takes you on a journey of self-discovery, from the origins of your family name and earliest memories, to what you'd invent and how you'd change the world. This beautifully illustrated book is filled with inventive and accessible writing prompts, as well as tips for anyone wanting to document their lives and explore their creativity.
Want to flex your writing muscles, exorcise your demons, relive moments of magic, make sense of life, have fun and leave a lasting legacy? The Accidental Memoir will show you how.
This innovative concept was developed as an Arts Council project to help people tap into their own lives. Used in workshops with diverse groups from refugees to the elderly and prisoners, the book unearthed stories that might never have been told.
A life writing journal
Boy on the Bridge
feature film (Greek)
Co-written with the brilliant Stavros Pamballis and based on my third book, Boy on the Bridge is set in eighties Cyprus. It's about twelve-year-old Socrates who spends his summer racing through his mountain village on a bike, setting off firecrackers and dreaming of becoming a war hero like his grandfather.
His carefree days end when he uncovers a troubling secret about his cousin Marcos’s family. Determined to intervene, Socrates uses his firecracker skills in a plan that spirals into a murder investigation forcing him to confront a life-changing choice about love, loyalty, and courage.
