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A Piano Bar in Crete

A Piano Bar in Crete
  • Author(s): Richard Clark
  • Location(s): Crete
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1974 and 2003

A poignant, heart- warming novel of loss, love and renewal. The fifth novel from the award-winning bestselling writer Richard Clark. In 1974, a married couple flee Cyprus as Turkish bombs rained down on their home town of Famagusta. Nearly...

A Place in Greece

A Place in Greece
  • Author(s): Amelia Short
  • Location(s): Crete
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): Present day

Ever wanted to leave it all behind, buy a place in Greece and start a new life? Escape to the sun-drenched shores of Crete in this heartwarming tale of new beginnings, self-discovery, and unexpected love. After a string of...

A Saint For The Summer

A Saint For The Summer
  • Author(s): Marjory McGinn
  • Location(s): Greece
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A story of a Scottish journalist’s quest to help her expat father Angus to solve a family mystery going back to the Second World War when his father disappeared during the Battle of Kalamata. With the clock ticking against...

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 Self Effacing Man

A Self Effacing Man
  • Author(s): Sara Alexi
  • Location(s): Greece
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

If it is in your nature to put others before yourself, what do you do when someone makes a play for the person you have secretly loved for years? Maria is illiterate, and Cosmo, the village postman, is obliged...

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...

A Song Amongst the Orange Trees

A Song Amongst the Orange Trees
  • Author(s): Sara Alexi
  • Location(s): Greece
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Sakis wins the a major European song competition in Kharkiv, the Ukraine, but with a song that he considers cheap and musically poor. His win forces him to choose between money and fame, and maintaining his artistic integrity…

A Stranger in Corfu

A Stranger in Corfu
  • Author(s): Alex Preston
  • Location(s): Greece
  • Genre(s): Espionage, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

On the Greek island of Vidos the past lingers like salt in the air. The inhabitants – former members of MI6 – are sent here to be forgotten. Exiled. Either too damaged or too compromised to be allowed to...

A Stranger in the Village

A Stranger in the Village
  • Author(s): Sara Alexi
  • Location(s): Greece
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

There’s a mysterious stranger in the village… Who is he, and what does he want? At least two of the women in the village feel there is something familiar about him, but what is the connection? A Stranger in...

A Taste of Greek Summer

A Taste of Greek Summer
  • Author(s): Mandy Baggot
  • Location(s): Corfu
  • Genre(s): RomCom
  • Era(s): Present day

Next summer, on the Greek island of Corfu, sparks will fly as dreams come true… Lydia Broom is living her second-best life. With her dreams of being a chef left in the dust she instead finds solace writing about...

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