“Joy Hendry is a traveller and social anthropologist who has published many books, but she brings to the Fair two recent novels only available in hard copy at events such as these. Learn of a 1960s adventure in Mexico which leads to a lifelong career and love story, and in the newer novel, the story of a young woman Born at Sea, but growing up between Mexico and her mother’s homeland of Scotland. The two form part of a series called Sharing Worlds, availanle on Amazon, but in attractive hard copy design here!”

Prof. Elena Ene Drăghici-Vasilescu teaches and researches in the fields of Late Antiquity and Medieval Studies (Philosophy, Art History, History of Ideas). Most recently her work has focused on Mediterranean culture.

She has a DPhil/PhD in Arts from the University of Oxford and is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. Dr. Vasilescu is a frequent speaker at national and international conferences.

She has published books and articles with Oxford University Press, Palgrave, Routledge, Peeters and Vasilescu Academic Oxford (her own publishing house).

Among her latest books are ‘Michelangelo, the Byzantines, and Plato’ (2021, second revised edition 2025); ‘Byzantine and Medieval Cappadocia’ (2024), ‘Creation and Time. Byzantine and Moder’ (2021), ‘Glimpses into Byzantium. Its Philosophy and Arts’ (an anthology of peer-reviewed articles).

Dr. Vasilescu has also published chapters in collective volumes published by Ashgate, Routledge and other well-known publishers. Moreover, Elena Ene Drăghici-Vasilescu published three volumes of poems: ‘Bucuria Verii cu Fluturi/A Summer with Butterflies’ (2025); ‘Tot despre cuvinte’/’About Words Again’ (2026), and ‘E Dreptul Meu’ [‘It is my Right’]

She directed two films: one is titled “Ieşirea din Labirint”/”Escape from the Labyrinth” and the other is based on Franz Kafka’s “The Metamorphosis” and is titled as such. The latter had its premiere on the 2nd of May, 2026, at the Ultimate Picture Palace cinema in Oxford.

Mediterranean Publishing is the storyteller’s home. Since 2019, we’ve been the quiet force behind hundreds of authors—shaping raw manuscripts into polished works of courage, culture, and consequence. From a child’s first picture book to a scholar’s definitive thesis, we believe every story deserves the integrity of traditional craft and the reach of modern strategy.

My interest in the Mind-Body problem was inspired by reading Daniel Dennett’s “Consciousness Explained”. He proposes that qualitative experiences, such as a feeling of pain, do not exist. Although it /seems/ that we have this phenomenology, we do not actually do so. He also denies that we have conscious agency. I find these claims absurd, but his book made me realise that any explanation of mind in terms of physics must be extremely difficult.

I wrote a draft manuscript on /panpsychism/, which is the position that mind exists – in extremely primitive form – everywhere in the universe. I completed an MA degree at the University of Reading, writing my thesis on the Mind-Body problem, and used it to improve my manuscript, which was published as ‘Panpsychism’, 2011.

In my 2022 book, ‘Mind, Quantum, and Free Will’, my ideas are closely bound to contemporary physics. This gives my ideas credibility. Part II discusses science. Particular attention is paid to quantum theory, where I go back to the original papers of Einstein, Schrödinger, Bohr, and others, where they debate entanglement. I argue that Einstein made many significant contributions to this theory.

Over the years I’ve given talks and other presentations at international conferences. Please visit my table, N34, if you would like to discuss science, philosophy, or the Mind-Body problem, from any point of view. Your ideas and insights are most welcome.

Andrius Lengvinas writes about how mortgages and long-term debt quietly change behaviour – the work people take, the risks they stop taking, and the lives they build around the payments.

After more than fifteen years in property, construction and business, and more than thirty mortgages by forty, he wrote the book he wishes he had read before signing the first one. Most people look at the rate and the monthly figure. Silent Debt is about the cost that never appears on the statement.

Silent Debt: How Mortgages Shape Decisions, Risk, and the Lives We Build is a #1 Best Seller in Financing Mortgages on Amazon UK. It has also reached #1 in Mortgages, Real Estate Investments, and Buying & Selling Homes on Amazon US Kindle.

This is not a guide to getting rich from property. It is part memoir, part explanation: what happens after you sign, and why so many people feel uneasy long before any document is completed.

Andrius is an independent author based in Bishop’s Stortford. Silent Debt is available in paperback, ebook and audiobook.

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J. C. O’Neill is an independent author of modern Gothic fantasy and historical romantic thrillers. She only began writing to amuse a relative following their cancer diagnosis, but a few chapters turned into two series of books. She has degrees in law and medicine and had the privilege of working for the National Health Service for thirty-two years. She lives, works and writes in Sheffield, but was born in Cumbria, so is a true Northerner. She has three kids, one dog, a Mr O’Neill and a fondness for McVitie’s Chocolate Digestives. She didn’t mean to write a modern Gothic fantasy trilogy; it wrote her.