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Empires of Bronze: The Crimson Throne (Empires of Bronze #4)

Empires of Bronze: The Crimson Throne (Empires of Bronze #4)
  • Author(s): Gordon Doherty
  • Location(s): Greece, Türkiye (Turkey)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Bronze Age

The King of the Hittites has been slain, and a reign of terror begins… 1272 BC: Prince Hattu returns home from the battlefield of Kadesh to find his nephew on the throne, the old king’s blood dripping from his...

Excavations

Excavations
  • Author(s): Kate Myers
  • Location(s): Greece
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Over a summer in sun-drenched Greece, four incompatible women digging into the past may just find the answers to their futures. On a remote archeological site in Greece, the mythic home of the first Olympics, four women discover an...

Facets of Love

Facets of Love
  • Author(s): Effrosyni Moschoudi
  • Location(s): Corfu, Athens, Zagoria
  • Genre(s): Short Stories
  • Era(s): Modern world

Treat yourself today to this wonderful collection of short stories that highlight various kinds of love. Not just the romantic kind, but also love for family, pets, and country. Facets of Love will introduce you to stunning locations around...

Farewell to Salonica

Farewell to Salonica
  • Author(s): Leon Sciaky
  • Location(s): Thessaloniki (Salonika)
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Early 20th Century

In this enchanting and moving memoir, Leon Sciaky describes his childhood before the FirstWorld War in a prosperous, loving Jewish family in the cosmopolitan city of Salonica (nowThessaloniki in Greece). Under the Ottoman Empire, the city’s diverse communities –...

Female, Nude

Female, Nude
  • Author(s): Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett
  • Location(s): Greece
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Sophie, a painter, is holidaying with friends in a stunning villa in Greece – her best friend Helena is shortly to be married, and this is the last time she and her friends will be together as single women....

Fire on the Island

Fire on the Island
  • Author(s): Timothy Jay Smith
  • Location(s): Lesbos (Lesvos)
  • Genre(s): LGBTQIA+, Mystery
  • Era(s): Modern

FIRE ON THE ISLAND is a playful, romantic thriller set in contemporary Greece, with a gay Greek-American FBI agent, who is undercover on the island to investigate a series of mysterious fires. Set against the very real refugee crisis...

Float The Goat

Float The Goat
  • Author(s): Katerina Nikolas
  • Location(s): Greece
  • Genre(s): Humour
  • Era(s): Present

During a scorching summer in Astakos an over-the-edge near miss sees Quentin and Deirdre inadvertently kidnapping a goat, which reunites them with the philandering goat-herder, Pungent Pedros, still hung-up on his long ago rejection by Fotini. Toothless Tasos is...

For Now: Notes on living a deliberate life

For Now: Notes on living a deliberate life
  • Author(s): Daphne Kapsali
  • Location(s): Sifnos
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Contemporary

What does it mean, to live a deliberate life? I use that term, but I’m still trying to figure it out. And I think that’s the point, essentially: that we’re always trying to figure it out. All of it....

Fragments of a Dream

Fragments of a Dream
  • Author(s): Ruth Larrea
  • Location(s): Hydra
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1966 and present day

Is it too late for a second chance at love? Rosie doesn’t think so. When her marriage ends close to retirement, she plans to find Angelos, the charismatic young Athenian she fell for as a naive 19-year old. But...

Freedom and Death

Freedom and Death
  • Author(s): Nikos Kazantzakis
  • Location(s): Crete
  • Genre(s): Historical
  • Era(s): Late Nineteenth Century

Freedom and Death is Kazantzakis’s modern Iliad. The context is Crete in the late nineteenth century, the epic struggle between Greeks and Turks, between Christianity and Islam. A new uprising takes place to rival those of 1854, 1866 and...

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