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The Thread

The Thread
  • Author(s): Victoria Hislop
  • Location(s): Thessaloniki (Salonika)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 20th and early 21st Centuries

From the fly leaf: As Dimitri Komninos is born, a devastating fire sweeps through the thriving Greek city where Christians, Jews and Muslims live side by side. Five years later, Katerina Sarafogou’s home in Asia Minor is destroyed by...

All Her Secrets

All Her Secrets
  • Author(s): Jane Shemilt
  • Location(s): London, Paxos
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): 2003 and 2023

PAXOS, GREECE 2003 A young girl meets two boys on the beach one hot summer night. Her life will never be the same again. LONDON, ENGLAND 2023 Julia is the perfect spouse, mother, cook, cleaner and speech writer to...

Athens Beyond the Guidebooks

Athens Beyond the Guidebooks
  • Author(s): John L Tomkinson
  • Location(s): Greece
  • Genre(s): Nonfiction, Travelogue
  • Era(s): Various

The author takes the reader beneath the veneer of tourist hype and dry guidebook facts to expose some of the stories and curiosities which make the city of Athens the unique and fascinating place it is.

Captain Corelli’s Mandolin

Captain Corelli’s Mandolin
  • Author(s): Louis de Bernières
  • Location(s): Kefalonia (Cephalonia)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Late 1930s/Early 1940s

Captain Corelli’s Mandolin is set in the early days of the second world war, before Benito Mussolini invaded Greece. Dr Iannis practices medicine on the island of Cephalonia, accompanied by his daughter, Pelagia, to whom he imparts much of...

Creation

Creation
  • Author(s): Gore Vidal
  • Location(s): China, Greece, India
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 5th Century BC

Vidal’s historical novel set in the 5th century BC and narrated by Cyrus Spitama, son of a Persian prince and Greek sorceress, grandson of the prophet Zoroaster, and ambassador to the courts of India, China and Greece. Pericles, Thucydides,...

Daniel’s Dream

Daniel’s Dream
  • Author(s): Peter Michael Rosenberg
  • Location(s): Greece
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

A serious accident leaves Daniel, a photo-journalist, plagued by depression and nightmares for which his wife and doctors can offer no help. His only reprieve comes in the form of a recurring dream which takes him to an idyllic...

Excess all Areas

Excess all Areas
  • Author(s): Mandy Baggot
  • Location(s): Corfu
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

When the going gets tough Freya Johnson gets going! Humiliated by her boyfriend the day she turns thirty, Freya boards a last minute flight to Corfu to visit her best friend Emma. Little does she know – this holiday...

Feta Compli

Feta Compli
  • Author(s): John Manuel
  • Location(s): Rhodes
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Mid 2000s

John Manuel and his wife Yvonne Maria made the decision to up-sticks and re-locate to Rhodes after 30 years of marriage and innumerable visits to Greece, both as tourists and to visit relatives (his wife’s mother was from Athens)....

Holiday Reads

Holiday Reads
  • Author(s): Elaine Spires
  • Location(s): Corfu, Norwegian Fjords, Türkiye (Turkey)
  • Genre(s): Short Stories

Short stories for your sun-lounger – or wherever! Seven women, each with a different holiday problem. Meet, Olivia, who wishes she wasn’t on a tennis holiday; Estelle, alone on a cruise; Fiona who’s flying too close for comfort; Shelley,...

Jenna’s Journey

Jenna’s Journey
  • Author(s): Julie Ryan
  • Location(s): Greece
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): Modern

When Jenna decides on a whim to go to Greece, she’s trying to escape her failing marriage. Will Greg let her go so easily though? Can she make a new future for herself and how did she get involved...

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