Standalone Novels
| Title | Published | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|
| A Watermelon, a Fish and a Bible | 2010 | Buy |
| The Beekeeper of Aleppo | 2019 | Buy |
| Songbirds | 2021 | Buy |
| The Book of Fire | 2023 | Buy |
Christy Lefteri is a British Cypriot author whose novels deal with displacement, migration, and resilience. Born in London in 1980 to parents who fled Cyprus after the 1974 partition, she grew up with stories of forced migration that would later shape her fiction. She holds a PhD in creative writing from Brunel University, where she has also taught.
Lefteri’s breakthrough came with The Beekeeper of Aleppo (2019), inspired by her volunteer work at a refugee center in Athens. The novel sold over one million copies, won the Aspen Words Literary Prize, and was adapted for the stage. Her other novels include A Watermelon, a Fish and a Bible (2010), set during the 1974 Cyprus crisis; Songbirds (2021), about migrant domestic workers in Cyprus; and The Book of Fire (2023), set against wildfires in rural Greece. Each book draws on real events and places she has a personal connection to.