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Lost in Crete

Lost in Crete
  • Author(s): Laurie Strange
  • Location(s): Crete
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary looking back

Why does news of the discovery of a Minoan earring turn Diane’s world on its head? And what is her daughter Catherine, single parent to Ellie, to make of the holiday break that is suddenly announced for all three?...

A Place in Greece

A Place in Greece
  • Author(s): Amelia Short
  • Location(s): Crete
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): Present day

Ever wanted to leave it all behind, buy a place in Greece and start a new life? Escape to the sun-drenched shores of Crete in this heartwarming tale of new beginnings, self-discovery, and unexpected love. After a string of...

How to Make a Bomb

How to Make a Bomb
  • Author(s): Rupert Thomson
  • Location(s): Cadiz, Crete
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): contemporary

Philip Notman, an acclaimed historian, attends a conference in Bergen, Norway. On his return to London, and to his wife and son, something unexpected and inexplicable happens to him, and he is unable to settle back into his normal...

A Piano Bar in Crete

A Piano Bar in Crete
  • Author(s): Richard Clark
  • Location(s): Crete
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1974 and 2003

A poignant, heart- warming novel of loss, love and renewal. The fifth novel from the award-winning bestselling writer Richard Clark. In 1974, a married couple flee Cyprus as Turkish bombs rained down on their home town of Famagusta. Nearly...

Kritsotopoula: Girl Of Kritsa

Kritsotopoula: Girl Of Kritsa
  • Author(s): Yvonne Payne
  • Location(s): Crete
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1823

Rodanthe, the feisty daughter of Kritsa’s pappas (priest), spent her childhood longing for her father’s approval without appreciating his efforts to keep her safe under Ottoman oppression.Years later, the ruling Pasha orders Rodanthe’s kidnap intent on making her his...

An Island in the Sun

An Island in the Sun
  • Author(s): Holly Greene
  • Location(s): Crete
  • Genre(s): Fiction

Sit back, relax and escape to the sun-drenched Greek island of Crete, with another summer story from the bestselling author of SUMMER IN SORRENTO & more. Ellie thinks she’s landed her dream job when she takes up a marketing...

The Crete Connection

The Crete Connection
  • Author(s): John Manuel
  • Location(s): Crete
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): Modern / 20 years ago

In rural Wiltshire, England, a six month-old baby disappears from a stroller while its mother is inside a store for just two minutes. A young Englishman begins a summer of adventure on the Greek island of Crete. By pure...

One Summer in Crete

One Summer in Crete
  • Author(s): Nadia Marks
  • Location(s): Crete
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

A gloriously sunny book of family secrets, lost loves and self-discovery, One Summer in Crete by Nadia Marks is an engrossing holiday read. ‘If you don’t think you’re about to get to Crete this is the next best thing...

Dancing the Labyrinth

Dancing the Labyrinth
  • Author(s): Karen Marten
  • Location(s): Crete
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

In this dual time novel, Cressida travels to Crete to escape her troubled past. Her life takes an unexpected turn when she discovers she is pregnant. Cressida fears her child will inherit her father’s abusive traits and her mother’s...

At the Palaces of Knossos

At the Palaces of Knossos
  • Author(s): Nikos Kazantzakis, Themi Vasils, Theodora Vasils
  • Location(s): Crete
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1000 BC

Blending historical fact and classical myth, the author of Zorba the Greek and The Last Temptation of Christ transports the reader 3,000 years into the past, to a pivotal point in history: the final days before the ancient kingdom...

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