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Greek Letters, Volume Four: Much More Than Hurt

Greek Letters, Volume Four: Much More Than Hurt
  • Author(s): Suzi Stembridge
  • Location(s): Greece, Europe, The Peloponnese
  • Genre(s): Romance, Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1827 to 2008

Following the many paths of their ancestors, especially Samuel the Philhellene who came to the Peloponnese as Greece declared its independence in 1827 and whose son was born in Greece thereby creating five generations drawn back to the land...

Heads You Lose

Heads You Lose
  • Author(s): Rob Johnson
  • Location(s): The Peloponnese
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Humour
  • Era(s): Modern

‘Money for old rope,’ Sandra had said when they accepted the job of looking after the ageing Marcus Ingleby at his villa in Greece, but when a neighbour brings a gift for the old man, the prospect of spending...

Homer’s Where The Heart Is

Homer’s Where The Heart Is
  • Author(s): Marjory McGinn
  • Location(s): The Peloponnese
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Travelogue
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Part 2 of the Peloponnese series continues the story of 2 journalists and their crazy dog living in the southern Peloponnese, Greece during the crisis. This is a travel memoir that looks at the challenges of modern Greece set...

How Greek Is Your Love?

How Greek Is Your Love?
  • Author(s): Marjory McGinn
  • Location(s): The Peloponnese
  • Genre(s): Romance, Suspense
  • Era(s): Contemporary

The sequel to the novel A Saint For The Summer. Bronte McKnight is in the early days of her love affair with charismatic doctor Leonidas Papachristou. But as Bronte tries to live and love like a Greek, the economic...

Mani: Travels in the Southern Peloponnese

Mani: Travels in the Southern Peloponnese
  • Author(s): Patrick Leigh Fermor
  • Location(s): The Peloponnese
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Mid 20th Century

This is Patrick Leigh Fermor’s spellbinding part-travelogue, part inspired evocation of a part of Greece’s past. Joining him in the Mani, one of Europe’s wildest and most isolated regions, cut off from the rest of Greece by the towering...

One Last Letter from Greece

One Last Letter from Greece
  • Author(s): Emma Cowell
  • Location(s): Methoni
  • Genre(s): Romance, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Devastated by her mother’s death, Sophie longs to get away from an empty house full of memories and a life that hasn’t quite turned out as she had imagined. So when a chance discovery among her mother’s belongings hints...

The House in the Olive Grove

The House in the Olive Grove
  • Author(s): Emma Cowell
  • Location(s): Petalidi
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Will one week in Greece change their lives for ever? Chef Maria is running a successful cookery school in her home village of Petalidi, Greece – but she is also running from the secrets of her past. Food journalist...

The Walls of Byzantium

The Walls of Byzantium
  • Author(s): James Heneage
  • Location(s): Khios (Chios), Monemvasia, The Peloponnese
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 15th Century/Byzantine

This remarkable, sweeping historical novel, rich in story and character, is shaped by the quest for a hidden treasure, rumoured to bequeath riches beyond belief and guarded by successive generations of famed warriors. Fifteenth-century Europe: a time of warring...

Things Can Only Get Feta

Things Can Only Get Feta
  • Author(s): Marjory McGinn
  • Location(s): The Peloponnese
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Travelogue
  • Era(s): Contemporary

After an Arctic winter, a British recession, and a downturn in the newspaper industry, two journalists and their dog embark on an adventure in the wild and beautiful southern Peloponnese. A perfect plan, except for one thing – Greece...

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