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The House on Paradise Street

The House on Paradise Street
  • Author(s): Sofka Zinovieff
  • Location(s): Athens, Greece
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1940s forward

When Maud learns that her husband has been killed in a car accident, she is left bereft and bewildered. She has no idea why he was driving on a lonely coastal road outside Athens in the middle of the...

The Island Love Song

The Island Love Song
  • Author(s): Emma Cowell
  • Location(s): Hydra
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Escape to the beautiful Greek Island of Hydra with this moving novel, filled with family secrets and romance Emma Cowell, author of THE HOUSE IN THE OLIVE GROVE, returns with her brand new, emotional and romantic novel set on...

The Lady of Sorrows #4

The Lady of Sorrows #4
  • Author(s): Anne Zouroudi
  • Location(s): Skopelos
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): Modern

Set in a fictional Skopelos. Hermes Diaktoros visits a remote island which is home to an ancient icon famed for its miraculous powers. But something about the Virgin troubles him, and Hermes calls on an old friend to confirm...

The Last Dance

The Last Dance
  • Author(s): Victoria Hislop
  • Location(s): Greece
  • Genre(s): Short Stories
  • Era(s): Various

Three of these stories were previously published in Victoria Hislop’s ebook collection, One Cretan Evening. In ten powerful stories, Victoria Hislop takes us through the streets of Athens and into the tree-lined squares of Greek villages. As she evokes...

The Magic in the Receiver

The Magic in the Receiver
  • Author(s): Paul Dillon
  • Location(s): Kefalonia (Cephalonia)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1950s and modern

Flashback to 1953 and Kefalonia lies ruined, shattered by a massive earthquake. Nine-year-old Ioannis Katros’s family is torn apart and he joins thousands in an evacuation of the stricken isle. Fifty years later, accompanied by his daughter Elena, Ioannis...

The New Mrs D

The New Mrs D
  • Author(s): Heather Hill
  • Location(s): Greece
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Four days into their honeymoon in Greece, Bernice and David Dando have yet to consummate their marriage and after having accepted his almost non-existent desire for sex throughout the relationship, Bernice finally discovers the reason; he is addicted to...

The Raven Witch of Corfu – episode 1 of 4

The Raven Witch of Corfu – episode 1 of 4
  • Author(s): Effrosyni Moschoudi
  • Location(s): Messonghi
  • Genre(s): Fantasy, Romance, Suspense
  • Era(s): Modern world

A terrible evil lurks in the mountain… Lizzie is not your average tourist. She may have just arrived on the idyllic Greek island of Corfu, but her mind is not on having a good time. Far from it, Lizzie...

The Song of Achilles

The Song of Achilles
  • Author(s): Madeline Miller
  • Location(s): Greece
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical, LGBTQIA+, Romance
  • Era(s): 1100s BC

Greece in the age of Heroes. Patroclus, an awkward young prince, has been exiled to the kingdom of Phthia. Here he is nobody, just another unwanted boy living in the shadow of King Peleus and his golden son, Achilles....

The Song of Youth

The Song of Youth
  • Author(s): Effrosyni Moschoudi
  • Location(s): The Cyclades
  • Genre(s): RomCom, Paranormal
  • Era(s): contemporary

Emilia wished to be young again… and then, it happened. Emilia Paschos, a 45-year-old landscape designer, feels she’s lost out on life and wishes on her 45th birthday to be young again. A mysterious gypsy called Esmera offers her...

The Summer of my Greek Taverna

The Summer of my Greek Taverna
  • Author(s): Tom Stone
  • Location(s): Patmos
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Modern

The story of a man in love with a place, a woman, and a dream. Tom Stone went to Greece one summer to write a novel — and stayed twenty-two years. On Patmos, he fell in love with Danielle,...

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