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Zorba the Greek

Zorba the Greek
  • Author(s): Nikos Kazantzakis
  • Location(s): Crete
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Early 20th Century

Set before the start of the First World War, this moving fable sees a young English writer set out to Crete to claim a small inheritance. But when he arrives, he meets Alexis Zorba, a middle-aged Greek man with...

One August Night

One August Night
  • Author(s): Victoria Hislop
  • 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...

The Dark Labyrinth

The Dark Labyrinth
  • Author(s): Lawrence Durrell
  • Location(s): Crete
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Mid 20th Century

This captivating Mediterranean novel was written by Lawrence Durrell immediately after finishing his exquisite vignette about Corfu, Prospero’s Cell, and a decade before Justine. The story is set on Crete just after the War, as an odd assortment of English travellers...

The House of Dust and Dreams

The House of Dust and Dreams
  • Author(s): Brenda Reid
  • Location(s): Crete
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical, Romance
  • Era(s): Late 1930s

Greece 1936. A young British diplomat and his wife have been posted to Athens. Hugh loves the life there but his spirited and unconventional wife, Evadne, finds it hard to fit in with the whirl of endless parties and...

The Two Faces of January

The Two Faces of January
  • Author(s): Patricia Highsmith
  • Location(s): Athens, Crete, Europe
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1960s

Two men meet in the picturesque backstreets of Athens. Chester MacFarlane is a conman with multiple false identities, near the end of his rope and on the run with his young wife Colette. Rydal Keener is a young drifter...

Heavenly’s Child

Heavenly’s Child
  • Author(s): Brenda Reid
  • Location(s): Athens, Crete
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Late 1960s, earlyu 1970s

It is the late 1960s and after her strict English boarding school, Angel is delighted to be back on Crete, the island she loves. She and her friend Chrissi are planning to spend the long summer days as they’ve...

Digging at the Crossroads of Time

Digging at the Crossroads of Time
  • Author(s): Christos Morris
  • Location(s): Crete
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern looking back to 1600s BC

While exhuming human remains within a collapsed Minoan temple, a respected archaeologist senses a need to look beyond the bones and shards of his discovery. When he digs deeper into the mysteries of the mountain, there are unexpected consequences...

Greek Island Escape

Greek Island Escape
  • Author(s): Patricia Wilson
  • Location(s): Crete, Athens
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern looking back

‘I am Sofia. I am searching for my daughter, born 1st November 1972. Can you help me?’ On the beautiful beaches of Crete, an old woman is handing out scraps of paper. Sofia, eighty-five years old, unable to speak,...

Known unto God

Known unto God
  • Author(s): Bob Bibby
  • Location(s): Crete
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): WW2 and Modern

In 1940 in war-ravaged Birmingham, Meredith Wilson, driving an ARP ambulance, comes to rescue survivors of a bombed war munitions factory. There she meets two brothers, Bert and Bill Ennis, in Reserved Occupations running the factory, and falls in...

Matti and Max: Adventures on Crete

Matti and Max: Adventures on Crete
  • Author(s): Sandra Lehmann
  • Location(s): Matala
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): Modern looking back

Matti and Max find a mysterious map while exploring the caves of Matala on Crete. The two friends can’t believe their luck. Could there be a hidden treasure? The clues take the boys on an adventurous journey to the...

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