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Journey through a Tragicomic Century: The Absurd Life of Hasso Grabner

Journey through a Tragicomic Century: The Absurd Life of Hasso Grabner
  • Author(s): Francis Nenik, Katy Derbyshire (Translator)
  • Location(s): Germany, Corfu
  • Genre(s): Nonfiction, In Translation
  • Era(s): 20th Century

Francis Nenik‘s thrilling slice of narrative non-fiction Journey through a Tragicomic Century is about the life of the forgotten writer Hasso Grabner, told with great joy in language and love of absurdity. The journey takes us from the Young...

Murder in Mykonos

Murder in Mykonos
  • Author(s): Jeffrey Siger
  • Location(s): Mykonos
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Modern

Mykonos has always had a romantic reputation, until the body of a blonde female tourist is discovered on a pile of bones under the floor of a remote mountain church. When the island’s new police chief – the young,...

Out of the Blue

Out of the Blue
  • Author(s): Belinda Jones
  • Location(s): Athens, Crete, Spinalonga
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

Selena Harper always thought she had the perfect job: working on a luxury cruiseship, she’s whisked around the world from Alaska to Zanzibar with excitement and adventure awaiting her in every port. But as she prepares for her latest...

Second Skin

Second Skin
  • Author(s): Dugald Bruce-Lockhart
  • Location(s): Zakynthos (Zante)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery
  • Era(s): Later 20th Century

2 The Lizard series. Five years after witnessing murder on the Aegean island of Paros, Alistair Haston receives a call from Greece, from a man claiming to be his son’s grandfather, but Alistair has no knowledge of a son….until...

Spies of the Balkans

Spies of the Balkans
  • Author(s): Alan Furst
  • Location(s): Balkans, Paris, Thessaloniki (Salonika)
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): WW2

Salonika 1940, Constantine Zannis the central character, policeman working on sensitive cases. As the war draws closer he becomes more involved in spying and Allied agent. He assists in the escape of Jews from Germany, to Turkey, and to...

Swimming Pool Summer

Swimming Pool Summer
  • Author(s): Rebecca Farnworth
  • Location(s): Zakynthos (Zante)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

Frankie hasn’t had a proper relationship for years. But though she tells everyone this is how she wants it, but secretly she’s in love with her best friend Patrick. Tor didn’t think she could have a baby, but now...

The Athenian Connection

The Athenian Connection
  • Author(s): Graham Bishop
  • Location(s): Greece
  • Genre(s): Fiction

Pierre Rousseau and his partner Greek detective Antonia Antoniarkis prevent the illegal export of a valuable Greek 14th century icon.

The Explosive Nature of Friendship #3

The Explosive Nature of Friendship #3
  • Author(s): Sara Alexi
  • Location(s): Greece
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Mitsos has spent the last twenty years trying to comes to terms with the events of a single day and all that led up tp it. In his twilight years a suprising turn of events gives him a chance...

The Fury

The Fury
  • Author(s): Alex Michaelides
  • Location(s): The Cyclades
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

There were seven of us in all, trapped on the island.One of us was a murderer . . .’ On a small private Greek island, former movie star Lana Farrar – an old friend – invites a select group...

The Girls of Summer

The Girls of Summer
  • Author(s): Katie Bishop
  • Location(s): Greece
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery
  • Era(s): Present looking back to 16 years ago

Rachel has loved Alistair since she was seventeen. Even though she hasn’t seen him for sixteen years and she’s now married to someone else. Even though she was a teenager when they met. Even though he is almost twenty...

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