Samuel Carr’s great grandchild is born on a windy night March 1906. The first part of the story is her heartwarming tale of growing up in a newly built semi-detached house in Timperley Cheshire, of her early Edwardian childhood...
Samuel, now a father, and accompanied by his servants, Cuthbert his Anglo/Irish man-servant and the four young Greeks whom he has taken under his wing, arrives in Nauplia (Nafplio in the Peloponnese) in 1829, just as this small city...
Era(s): Turn of 21st Century looking back to 19th century
Rosalind, whose life has never been easy, seems to tap into a rich seam of luck when she finds papers relating to her ancestor Samuel Carr and links to her former lovers, yet perhaps even at the end she...
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...
A twist of fate sends this American artist to Greece on a painting workshop in 1982. After a luxurious swim in the Aegean, an epiphany in an olive grove inspires her to continue her life’s journey with art –...
Location(s): Greece, Italy, Malta, Türkiye (Turkey)
Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
Era(s): Contemporary
The Inspector George Zammit Series Book 3 They call him ‘The Hawk’ Turkey is the new powerbroker in the eastern Mediterranean and The Hawk sits in Istanbul, pulling the strings. But why should any of this concern a Maltese...
‘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...
In 1969, Welsh artist Elin Morgan spends her summer on a Greek island. She writes about it in her diary. She leaves suddenly with a shocking secret she takes to her grave. Twenty two years later, her daughter inherits...
Even paradise has shadows. July 2025. Tash and Mark host a birthday weekend for their son, Dom, at their luxury villa on a Greek island, inviting a select list of people to celebrate. As the drinks flow, the unthinkable...
The newly lean Pappas cashes in on his accidental tapeworm weight loss by scamming the villagers with sales of the dodgy Divine Slenderize. Quentin suffers the unwanted visit of Deirdre’s insufferable vegetarian cousin Gertrude, but finds her sausage stuffing...
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