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Athora: A Mystery Romance set on the Greek Islands

Athora: A Mystery Romance set on the Greek Islands
  • Author(s): Kostas Krommydas
  • Location(s): The Cyclades
  • Genre(s): Mystery, Romance
  • Era(s): contemporary

Fotini Meliou is visiting her family on the island of Athora, in the greek Aegean Sea, for a few days, before starting a new life in the US. She is looking forward to a brief respite and, perhaps, becoming...

Before We Were Innocent

Before We Were Innocent
  • Author(s): Ella Berman
  • Location(s): Greece
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

A summer in Greece for three best friends ends in the unthinkable when only two return home in this novel from Ella Berman. . . . Ten years ago, after a sun-soaked summer spent in Greece, best friends Bess...

Being Enough

Being Enough
  • Author(s): Sara Alexi
  • Location(s): Greece
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Rallou wakes up one day to find that her dreams have escaped her. The children are grown and gone, and her husband is no longer the man she married. Their house is not their own, and Rallou has not...

Being Shirley

Being Shirley
  • Author(s): Michelle Vernal
  • Location(s): Elounda, Greece
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern Day

“Who’s Shirley Valentine?” Shirley Valentine was Roz’s favourite film. It was about a repressed, middle-aged housewife from Liverpool who spends her days talking to her kitchen wall. When she leaves her husband for an impromptu holiday to the Greek...

Beneath the Lemon Trees

Beneath the Lemon Trees
  • Author(s): Emma Burstall
  • Location(s): Crete
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A magical villa. A life-changing summer… Heartbroken after the loss of a friend and the collapse of her marriage, Stella hopes that this trip to the idyllic Greek island of Crete will give her and her family a chance...

Beneath the Orange Blossom

Beneath the Orange Blossom
  • Author(s): Emma Cowell
  • Location(s): Kardamyli
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A lost love. A devastating secret. And a summer that could change everything… Two years on from her husband’s death, dressmaker Ellen is learning how to live again and put memories of a difficult marriage behind her. However, never...

Beside the Turquoise Sea

Beside the Turquoise Sea
  • Author(s): Emma Burstall
  • Location(s): Crete
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Can one magical Crete villa change everything? Now her children have moved out, Edie has begun to feel lonely in the home she shares with her husband. She hopes returning to Crete, where she and Ralph spent their honeymoon,...

Blue Skies & Black Olives

Blue Skies & Black Olives
  • Author(s): John Humphrys
  • Location(s): Greece
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Early 21st Century

It was a moment of mad impulse when John Humphrys decided to buy a semi-derelict cottage and a building site on a plot of land overlooking the Aegean. After all, his son Christopher was already raising his family there...

Border

Border
  • Author(s): Kapka Kassabova
  • Location(s): Bulgaria, Greece, Türkiye (Turkey)
  • Genre(s): Travelogue
  • Era(s): Contemporary

When Kapka Kassabova was a child, the borderzone between Bulgaria, Turkey and Greece was rumoured to be an easier crossing point into the West than the Berlin Wall so it swarmed with soldiers, spies and fugitives. On holidays close...

Bring Me Sunshine

Bring Me Sunshine
  • Author(s): Alex Brown
  • Location(s): Greece
  • Genre(s): RomCom
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Mamma Mia meets Shirley Valentine in the brand-new holiday romance for 2024 from the International No.1 bestseller. Gina Bennett has had enough after her husband of twenty-seven years lets her down one time too many. Deciding to choose herself,...

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