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Broken Greek: A language to belong

Broken Greek: A language to belong
  • Author(s): Adrianne Kalfopoulou
  • Location(s): Athens
  • Genre(s): Nonfiction, Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): early 21st Century

Expat memoir by Greek-American poet, Adrianne Kalfopoulou recounting her adventures and misadventures in her ancestral homeland, offering a multifaceted portrait of Greece today. Insightful, generous, unflinching — she shows what it’s really like to live there.

Bucket to Greece Volume 1

Bucket to Greece Volume 1
  • Author(s): V D Bucket
  • Location(s): Greece
  • Genre(s): Travelogue
  • Era(s): 2002

Bucket to Greece is a delightfully comical account of a British couple starting over in a new country, complete with imported cats, whilst discovering the joys and pitfalls of adapting to a strange culture. When our hero, Victor, needs...

By Blood Divided

By Blood Divided
  • Author(s): James Heneage
  • Location(s): The Peloponnese
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 15th Century

Destiny, inheritance, the world shifting from east to west. This is an epic novel set in an age of dramatic change. ‘A dramatic read from the very outset’ – Simon Scarrow Siward, scion of a great dynasty, commands the...

Carry On Up The Kali Strata

Carry On Up The Kali Strata
  • Author(s): James Collins
  • Location(s): Symi
  • Genre(s): Travelogue
  • Era(s): 2008

Carry On Up The Kali Strata is a collection of articles about living in Symi, Greece. Previously written for www.symidream.com and The Symi Visitor, here they are gathered together with photographs by Symi island photographer Neil Gosling. If you’ve...

Cast a Horoscope

Cast a Horoscope
  • Author(s): Suzi Stembridge
  • Location(s): Greece, Middle East, Yorkshire
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): 1960s

Rosalind Peters can’t believe her luck when in 1960, just in her twenties, she lands a job as an air-hostess, that is what cabin crew was called in those days. Life was every bit as glamourous as she imagined...

Cave of Silence

Cave of Silence
  • Author(s): Kostas Krommydas
  • Location(s): Dodecanese Islands
  • Genre(s): Mystery, Romance
  • Era(s): 1940-today

Dimitri, a young actor, is enjoying the lucky break of his life—a part in an international production shot on an idyllic Greek island and a romance with Anita, his beautiful co-star. When his uncle dies, he has one last...

Children of War

Children of War
  • Author(s): Ahmet Yorulmaz
  • Location(s): Crete
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1920s

Hassanakis is a young Muslim boy of Turkish descent growing up on Crete during WWI. Fifteen generations of his family have lived on the island and until now he has never had any reason not to think he is...

Cold Pressed

Cold Pressed
  • Author(s): J J Marsh
  • Location(s): Dodecanese Islands, The Cyclades
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Santorini. Turquoise seas, ancient ruins and beautiful sunsets. And a woman thrown from a cliff. The violent death shocks fellow passengers of the Empress Louise, a grand cruise liner packed with British tourists. For newly promoted Inspector Nikos Stephanakis,...

Corfu Capers

Corfu Capers
  • Author(s): Joy Skye
  • Location(s): Corfu
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Current

Join Kate Delaney on her life changing trip from Houston, Texas to Corfu where nothing goes as planned but everything falls into place in the most unexpected ways. Romance and fun in sun in this quirky tale that will...

Crocus Hour

Crocus Hour
  • Author(s): Charlotte Randall
  • Location(s): Crete
  • Genre(s): Mystery

In a village cafe in Crete, 1981, a young backpacker is befriended by a troubled New Zealander, Henry Davis. He reveals that his daughter Sally vanished from the island two years earlier and he has come to Crete to...

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