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Zorba the Greek

Zorba the Greek
  • Author(s): Nikos Kazantzakis
  • Location(s): Crete
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Early 20th Century

Set before the start of the First World War, this moving fable sees a young English writer set out to Crete to claim a small inheritance. But when he arrives, he meets Alexis Zorba, a middle-aged Greek man with...

Under the Lemon Tree

Under the Lemon Tree
  • Author(s): Emma Cowell
  • Location(s): Agistri
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Could rediscovering her roots help Kat rebuild a life without her brother…? Shattered by the sudden loss of her beloved twin, Nik, Kat is struggling to find meaning in a life turned upside down. The comfort of family is...

Evanthia’s Gift

Evanthia’s Gift
  • Author(s): Effie Kammenou
  • Location(s): Greece, Long Island
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1950's to 1990's

In the year 1956, Anastacia Fotopoulos finds herself pregnant and betrayed, fleeing from a bad marriage. With the love and support of her dear friends Stavros and Soula Papadakis, Ana is able to face the challenges of single motherhood....

A Theatre for Dreamers

A Theatre for Dreamers
  • Author(s): Polly Samson
  • Location(s): Hydra
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1960

1960. The world is dancing on the edge of revolution, and nowhere more so than on the Greek island of Hydra, where a circle of poets, painters and musicians live tangled lives, ruled by the writers Charmian Clift and...

A Thing of Beauty

A Thing of Beauty
  • Author(s): Peter Fiennes
  • Location(s): Greece
  • Genre(s): Nonfiction, Travelogue
  • Era(s): Modern

What do the Greek myths mean to us today? It’s now a golden age for these tales – they crop up in novels, films and popular culture. But what’s the modern relevance of Theseus, Hera and Pandora? Were these...

Afternoons in Ithaka

Afternoons in Ithaka
  • Author(s): Spiri Tsintziras
  • Location(s): Greece, Ithaka (Ithaca)
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Food and Drink
  • Era(s): Late 20th Century/Modern

A charming memoir of self-discovery, family, connection and the power of a tomato. ‘I remember crusty just-baked bread, rubbed with juicy tomato flesh, swimming in a puddle of thick green olive oil. I am seven years old. I sit...

Aphrodite’s Tears

Aphrodite’s Tears
  • Author(s): Hannah Fielding
  • Location(s): Santorini
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

This book is set on the fictional island of Helios, but as the author explains in this #TalkingLocationWith…  article, the inspiration is very clearly Santorini. A young archaeologist who travels to the remote island of Helios (based on the...

Clytemnestra

Clytemnestra
  • Author(s): Costanza Casati
  • Location(s): Greece, Sparta
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): Ancient Greece

Mother. Monarch. Murderer. Magnificent. You are born to a king, but marry a tyrant. You stand helplessly as he sacrifices your child to placate the gods. You watch him wage war on a foreign shore and comfort yourself with...

Daughters

Daughters
  • Author(s): Lucy Fricke, Sinéad Crowe (translator)
  • Location(s): Amorgos, Germany, Switzerland
  • Genre(s): Fiction, In Translation
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Lucy Fricke‘s Daughters tells the story of two women either side of forty on a road trip across Europe, each of them dealing with difficult fathers along the way. A bestseller and booksellers favourite in Germany, Daughters evokes laughter...

Fish Soup

Fish Soup
  • Author(s): Michelle Heatley
  • Location(s): Greece
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Mystical, yet at the same time worldly, and written in a quirky lilt (in three very different voices), this feast for the senses will lavish your own life with tears and delight, and perhaps a little more than a...

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