ITHACA Online Issue No 2, May 2005   Myrtos Pavlos Matessis Novel Pavlos Matessis looks at the underbelly of life in Myrtos, a harsh but comic tale of human weakness.   The Guest Vangelis Hatziyannidis Novel A tortuous game of question and answer reveals deep, unmentionable secrets in The Guest, by Vangelis Hatziyannidis.   Four Greek Murders Alexis Panselinos Short stories Terrorism lurks in the background of everyday lives in Four Greek Murders, short stories by Alexis Panselinos.   Death Trainer Yannis Kontos Poetry Yannis Kontos’s poems in Death Trainer engage with the expectations and disappointments of collective reality.   Lifer Arkas Non-fiction albums A mild-mannered prisoner sentenced to 622 years and his cynical cellmate, the rat Montechristo, act out life in microcosm in Lifer, a compilation of Arkas’s popular comic strips.   The Garden with the Greys Theofano Kaloyanni Children´s book When a patch of urban greenery comes under threat, the band of grey cats that inhabit it work some magic in The Garden with the Greys, written and illustrated by Theofano Kaloyanni.   West Cretan Cooking Nicholas Stavroulakis Gastronomy Local savvy and his own illustrations make Nicholas Stavroulakis’s West Cretan Cooking a delicious introduction to traditional food