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Secrets of the Bees

Secrets of the Bees
  • Author(s): Jane Johnson
  • Location(s): Cornwall, Cyprus
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Time has forgotten this remote corner of West Cornwall, and left its many secrets undisturbed. Until now… Ezra Curnow has lived in the little cottage on the Trengrose estate all his life. He was born there, as was his...

The Evolution of Fear

The Evolution of Fear
  • Author(s): Paul E Hardisty
  • Location(s): Cyprus
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Claymore Straker is a fugitive with a price on his head. Wanted by the CIA for acts of terrorism he did not commit, his best friend has just been murdered and Rania, the woman he loves, has disappeared. Betrayed...

The Island of Missing Trees

The Island of Missing Trees
  • Author(s): Elif Shafak
  • Location(s): Nicosia
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern back to 1974

It is 1974 on the island of Cyprus. Two teenagers, from opposite sides of a divided land, meet at a tavern in the city they both call home. The tavern is the only place that Kostas, who is Greek...

The Olive Tree

The Olive Tree
  • Author(s): Lucinda Riley
  • Location(s): Cyprus
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

A magical house. A momentous summer. It has been twenty-four years since a young Helena spent a magical holiday in Cyprus, where she fell in love for the first time. When the now crumbling house, ‘Pandora’, is left to...

The Damascus Cover

The Damascus Cover
  • Author(s): Howard Kaplan
  • Location(s): Damascus, Cyprus, Jerusalem
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): 1970s

In a last ditch effort to revive his career, washed out agent Ari Ben-Sion accepts a mission he never would have 30 years ago, to smuggle a group of Jewish children out of the Damascus ghetto. Or so he...

Between the Orange Groves

Between the Orange Groves
  • Author(s): Nadia Marks
  • Location(s): Cyprus
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 20th/21st Century

In a small village, set among the wild mountains of Cyprus, two families of different faiths share a seemingly unbreakable friendship based on mutual respect and deep affection. Mothers and daughters share their daily secrets, fathers and sons support...

Songbirds

Songbirds
  • Author(s): Christy Lefteri
  • Location(s): Cyprus
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

The follow-up to the global bestseller The Beekeeper of Aleppo, Songbirds is a heart-breaking story for our times. She walks unseen through our world. Cares for our children, cleans our homes. Her voice unheard. She has a story to...

The Making Of Mrs Petrakis

The Making Of Mrs Petrakis
  • Author(s): Mary Karras
  • Location(s): Cyprus, London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1960 - 1990

Cyprus in the run up to the civil war of the 1970s… the threat of it hangs in the atmosphere like a fine mist. A terrible thing, war. Against this backdrop of war and violence, the island’s inhabitants make the best...

The Way It Breaks

The Way It Breaks
  • Author(s): Polis Loizou
  • Location(s): Cyprus, Greek Islands
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1990s

Orestis is a young man who refuses to accept his lot in life. He wants a better job, a toned body, his own place, a brighter future. On a night out, he bumps into an old school friend who...

The Sunrise

The Sunrise
  • Author(s): Victoria Hislop
  • 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...

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