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The Silver Stain (Alex Mavros 4)

The Silver Stain (Alex Mavros 4)
  • Author(s): Paul Johnston
  • Location(s): Crete
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): 2003 looking back

Set against a glorious Greek background, the spellbinding new Alex Mavros mystery – Hired by a Hollywood film company to trace a missing employee in Crete, private investigator Alex Mavros is plunged into a vortex of hatred. The company...

Three Ways to Capsize a Boat

Three Ways to Capsize a Boat
  • Author(s): Chris Stewart
  • Location(s): England, Spetses, The Atlantic Ocean
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Travelogue
  • Era(s): Modern

Never having skippered a boat, Chris Stewart sails against the tide in the Solent, progresses to Spetses in Greece and then attempts a journey across the Atlantic.

A House in Corfu

A House in Corfu
  • Author(s): Emma Tennant
  • Location(s): Corfu
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): 20th Century

House in Corfu is the story of one of the most beautiful places on earth, still astonishingly unspoilt, on the west coast of Corfu. In the early 1960s, Emma Tennant’s parents, on a cruise, spotted a magical bay and...

Achilles’ Helmet

Achilles’ Helmet
  • Author(s): Graham Bishop
  • Location(s): Greece, Skiathos, Skopelos
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

When a private collector commissions two London art dealers to find the battle helmet worn by Prince Achilles at the siege of Troy 3000 years ago, they engage a team of Italian tomb robbers to find the tomb. Interpol...

Outline

Outline
  • Author(s): Rachel Cusk
  • Location(s): Athens
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

BAILEYS WOMEN’S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2015 LONGLIST A woman writer goes to Athens in the height of summer to teach a writing course. Though her own circumstances remain indistinct, she becomes the audience to a chain of narratives, as...

The Lizard

The Lizard
  • Author(s): Dugald Bruce-Lockhart
  • Location(s): The Cyclades, Paros
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Obsessed with his ex-girlfriend, Alistair Haston heads off to Greece, where she is on holiday. Mugged on the harbourside in Paros, he is robbed of everything. So when Ricky a charming Aussie, shows up and offers Alistair a job...

Thirteen Days by Sunset Beach

Thirteen Days by Sunset Beach
  • Author(s): Ramsey Campbell
  • Location(s): Greek Islands
  • Genre(s): Horror

It’s Ray’s and Sandra’s first family holiday in Greece, on the island of Vasilema. The skies are cloudier than anywhere else in Greece, and they’re intrigued by local eccentricities―the lack of mirrors, the outsize beach umbrellas, the saint’s day...

Wish you were here (Mike Gayle)

Wish you were here (Mike Gayle)
  • Author(s): Mike Gayle
  • Location(s): Crete, Malia
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Their holiday brochure said 18-30 …But they’ve just turned 35. After ten years together Charlie Mansell has been dumped by his live-in girlfriend, Sarah. All he wants to do is wallow in misery, but mates Andy and Tom have...

Skios

Skios
  • Author(s): Michael Frayn
  • Location(s): Greece
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Humour
  • Era(s): Modern

On the sunlit Greek island of Skios, the Fred Toppler Foundation’s annual lecture is to be given by Dr Norman Wilfred, the world-famous authority on the scientific organisation of science. He turns out to be surprisingly young and charming...

100 days of solitude

100 days of solitude
  • Author(s): Daphne Kapsali
  • Location(s): Sifnos
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Travelogue
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Die-hard Londoner Daphne never expected to find herself on a small Greek island. Snakes and scorpions and weird, hairy locals, sure – but not Inner Peace. Which goes to show how wrong you can be. This is not one...

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