Mariambas by Yannis Skarimbas is the new entry in the Birmingham Modern Greek Translations series of The Centre for Byzantine, Ottoman and Modern Greek Studies. The book has been translated by Leo Marshall, who has also translated the awarded May Your Name Be Blessed by Sotiris Dimitriou, and others

The book follows the life of Ioannis Mariambas, an unconventional civil servant, whose eccentric manners shock the conservative society of Halkida. 

The Birmingham Series also includes many representative works of Modern Greek fiction, like Elias Maglinis' Interrogation (Trans. Patricia Felisa Barbeito), Haris Vlavianos' Adieu and Kostas Karyotakis' Battered Guitars: Poems and Prose by William W. Reader & Keith Taylor.