- Location(s): Greece
- Genre(s): Short Stories
- Era(s): Various
Week after week, the postcards arrive, addressed to a name Ellie does not know, with no return address, each signed with an initial: A. With their bright skies, blue seas and alluring images of Greece, these cartes postales brighten her life. After...
- Location(s): Crete
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1957 onwards
Beloved author Victoria Hislop returns to Crete in this long-anticipated sequel to her multi-million-copy Number One bestseller, The Island. 25th August 1957. The island of Spinalonga closes its leper colony. And a moment of violence has devastating consequences. When...
- Location(s): Famagusta
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1970s
In the summer of 1972, Famagusta in Cyprus is the most desirable resort in the Mediterranean, a city bathed in the glow of good fortune. An ambitious couple are about to open the island’s most spectacular hotel, where Greek...
- Location(s): Greece
- Genre(s): Short Stories
- Era(s): Various
Three of these stories were previously published in Victoria Hislop’s ebook collection, One Cretan Evening. In ten powerful stories, Victoria Hislop takes us through the streets of Athens and into the tree-lined squares of Greek villages. As she evokes...
- Location(s): Granada, Spain
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1930s, 2000s
Sonia orders a cup of coffee in a little cafe and with the serendipitous event she finds herself learning about one family’s fight to survive the Civil War. An insightful exploration of the horros of the war. Creative dance...
- Location(s): Thessaloniki (Salonika)
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 20th and early 21st Centuries
From the fly leaf: As Dimitri Komninos is born, a devastating fire sweeps through the thriving Greek city where Christians, Jews and Muslims live side by side. Five years later, Katerina Sarafogou’s home in Asia Minor is destroyed by...
- Location(s): Spinalonga
- Genre(s): Historical, Romance
- Era(s): 1950s/60s, Modern
On the brink of a life-changing decision, Alexis Fielding longs to find out about her mother’s past. But Sofia has never spoken of it. All she admits to is growing up in a small Cretan village before moving to...