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Beautiful Animals

Beautiful Animals
  • Author(s): Lawrence Osborne
  • Location(s): Hydra
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

On a hike during a white-hot summer break on the Greek island of Hydra, Naomi and Samantha make a startling discovery: a man named Faoud, sleeping heavily, exposed to the elements, but still alive. Naomi, the daughter of a...

Cartes Postales from Greece

Cartes Postales from Greece
  • Author(s): Victoria Hislop
  • 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...

My Map of You

My Map of You
  • Author(s): Isabelle Broom
  • Location(s): Zakynthos (Zante)
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Holly Wright has had a difficult few years. After her mother’s death, she’s become expert at keeping people at a distance – including her boyfriend, Rupert. But when Holly receives an unexpected letter explaining that an aunt she never...

Prospero’s Cell

Prospero’s Cell
  • Author(s): Lawrence Durrell
  • Location(s): Corfu
  • Genre(s): Nonfiction, Travelogue
  • Era(s): 1936-1938

A magical evocation of Durrell’s experiences on Corfu – before WW2. A slow sensuous life style – enjoying the elemental pleasures of daily life under the mythical Greek sun. Local villagers, intellectuals, illustrious visitors, all offer food for thought...

Repacking for Greece

Repacking for Greece
  • Author(s): Sally Jane Smith
  • Location(s): Greece
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Recent

(Packing for Greece travel series) When a long-forgotten, apartheid-era arrest record derails Sally’s plans for a Canadian family holiday, she packs her mum’s 1978 travel diary and sets out solo for Greece instead. As she journeys to the landmarks...

Run to the Blue

Run to the Blue
  • Author(s): P N Johnson
  • Location(s): London, Paxos
  • Genre(s): Thriller, Mystery, Romance
  • Era(s): Present

“Breaking News! Top TV reporter Tess Anderson is missing…she was last seen in the Greek Islands with a mysterious American yachtsman…more follows!” It was supposed to be the best day of her career, the day when she was the...

The Beekeeper of Aleppo

The Beekeeper of Aleppo
  • Author(s): Christy Lefteri
  • Location(s): Greece, England, Syria, Türkiye (Turkey)
  • Genre(s): Fiction

Nuri is a beekeeper; his wife, Afra, an artist. They live a simple life, rich in family and friends, in the beautiful Syrian city of Aleppo – until the unthinkable happens. When all they care for is destroyed by...

The Last of the Wine

The Last of the Wine
  • Author(s): Mary Renault
  • Location(s): Greece
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 5th Century BC

Alexias, a young Athenian of good family, grows up just as the Peloponnesian War is drawing to a close. The adult world he enters is one in which the power and influence of his class have been undermined by...

Unpacking for Greece: Travel in a Land of Fortresses, Fables, Ferries and Feta

Unpacking for Greece: Travel in a Land of Fortresses, Fables, Ferries and Feta
  • Author(s): Sally Jane Smith
  • Location(s): Greece
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Travelogue
  • Era(s): Contemporary and 1978

When Sally sets out for Europe with her mother’s 1978 travel diary in her pocket, she is searching for the wanderlust she lost in a devastating overseas road accident. As she ventures into the heart of the Mediterranean –...

Waiting For Aegina

Waiting For Aegina
  • Author(s): Effie Kammenou
  • Location(s): Greece, New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 21st Century

Book Two in The Gift Saga: The continuation of Evanthia’s Gift… In 1961, five little girls moved into a suburban neighborhood and became inseparable, lifelong friends. They called themselves the ‘Honey Hill Girls,’ named after the street on which...

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