Marjory McGinn
Marjory is a Scottish-born journalist, whose move to Australia as a child inspired her interest in travel and writing. She has travelled widely, including an early work stint in Athens. For most of her career she worked as a feature writer, initially on major Australian newspapers. After returning to Scotland in 2000, she freelanced for British publications, including The Times, Daily Mail, The Mail on Sunday, The Scotsman and The Herald. She has written on travel, lifestyle, and has interviewed celebrities, from top Aussie cricketers to the odd Hollywood legend. She is also the author of four Greek travel memoirs and two novels set in Greece. See Greek Books page for details.
Jim Bruce
Jim is an English-born freelance book editor (www.ebooklover.co.uk) and ex-journalist, who has worked on newspapers in England, Scotland and Australia for 35 years. After several years as a chief reporter, he moved into the production and editing side of newspapers and has held senior posts, including production editor and news editor. He has worked on the Kent and Sussex Courier, The Herald and the Evening Times in Glasgow and The Scottish Sun; The Sydney Morning Herald, the Daily Telegraph and The Sun-Herald in Sydney. He first visited Greece in 1979 on an island-hopping holiday with two pals. He likes a chilled Mythos in a beachside taverna, and is on a quest to find the perfect moussaka. He's getting close.
Wallace
Wallace the Jack Russell was an integral part of the Greek odyssey, accompanying Marjory and Jim on most of their travels around the southern Peloponnese. Wallace was born in Edinburgh, and this was his first adventure in Greece. He loved the beach, swimming and doing a bit of surfing, followed by a long siesta. In the hillside village where we lived in Greece, Wallace won over the locals, despite his often fizzy, eccentric behaviour, all of which is revealed in the Greek memoirs by Marjory McGinn (see Greek Books page). Sadly, Wallace passed away in August 2017, aged 16, after we returned to the UK. We hope he will live on through the books and continue to delight his legions of fans, many of whom still write to Marjory to comment warmly on his well-remembered antics and big personality.
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