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Clytemnestra

Clytemnestra
  • Author(s): Costanza Casati
  • Location(s): Greece, Sparta
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): Ancient Greece

Mother. Monarch. Murderer. Magnificent. You are born to a king, but marry a tyrant. You stand helplessly as he sacrifices your child to placate the gods. You watch him wage war on a foreign shore and comfort yourself with...

The Feast of Artemis #7

The Feast of Artemis #7
  • Author(s): Anne Zouroudi
  • Location(s): Kalamata
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): Modern

The olive harvest is drawing to a close in the town of Dendra, set in fictionalised Kalamata in the Peloponnese, and when Hermes Diaktoros arrives for the celebratory festival he expects an indulgent day of food and wine. But...

Running Haunted

Running Haunted
  • Author(s): Effrosyni Moschoudi
  • Location(s): Nafplio
  • Genre(s): Comedy, Paranormal, Romance
  • Era(s): contemporary

Kelly ran a marathon… and wound up running a house. With a ghost in it. Kelly Mellios is a stunning, athletic woman, who has learned–the hard way–to value herself. Having just finished her first marathon in the alluring Greek...

A Scorpion In The Lemon Tree

A Scorpion In The Lemon Tree
  • Author(s): Marjory McGinn
  • Location(s): The Peloponnese
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Travelogue
  • Era(s): Modern

Book 3 of the Peloponnese series Following on from the first two acclaimed books (Things Can Only Get Feta and Homer’s Where The Heart Is), Marjory, Jim and their crazy dog Wallace are on a second odyssey in the...

A Separation

A Separation
  • Author(s): Katie Kitamura
  • Location(s): The Peloponnese
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A young woman has agreed with her faithless husband: it’s time for them to separate. For the moment it’s a private matter, a secret between the two of them. As she begins her new life, alone, she gets word...

By Blood Divided

By Blood Divided
  • Author(s): James Heneage
  • Location(s): The Peloponnese
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 15th Century

Destiny, inheritance, the world shifting from east to west. This is an epic novel set in an age of dramatic change. ‘A dramatic read from the very outset’ – Simon Scarrow Siward, scion of a great dynasty, commands the...

Dishing the Dirt

Dishing the Dirt
  • Author(s): Rob Johnson
  • Location(s): The Peloponnese, Greece
  • Genre(s): Thriller, Comedy
  • Era(s): Present day

Careless talk costs lives – and with zero chance of a refund. Early August in Greece wasn’t ideal for sitting inside a stifling hot camper van to carry out a surveillance operation, but money was tight, and Trevor and...

GREEK LETTERS Vol 1 Before

GREEK LETTERS Vol 1 Before
  • Author(s): Suzi Stembridge
  • Location(s): Europe, The Peloponnese
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1827-1829

Samuel Carr leaves Cheshire in 1827, a young man eager for adventure but full of apprehension, why is he leaving the safety of his yeoman farmhouse? Unable to accept advice from a fellow passenger on the sailing ship he...

GREEK LETTERS Vol 2 AND AFTER

GREEK LETTERS Vol 2 AND AFTER
  • Author(s): Suzi Stembridge
  • Location(s): England, Europe, The Peloponnese
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical, Romance
  • Era(s): 1829-1900

Samuel, now a father, and accompanied by his servants, Cuthbert his Anglo/Irish man-servant and the four young Greeks whom he has taken under his wing, arrives in Nauplia (Nafplio in the Peloponnese) in 1829, just as this small city...

Greek Letters Volume 2 and After

Greek Letters Volume 2 and After
  • Author(s): Suzi Stembridge
  • Location(s): England, Europe, Nafplio
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical, Romance
  • Era(s): 1829-1900

Samuel, now a father, and accompanied by his servants, Cuthbert his Anglo/Irish man-servant and the four young Greeks whom he has taken under his wing, arrives in Nauplia (Nafplio in the Peloponnese) in 1829, just as this small city...

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