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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...

Honey, Olives, Octopus: Adventures at the Greek Table

Honey, Olives, Octopus: Adventures at the Greek Table
  • Author(s): Christopher Bakken
  • Location(s): Greece
  • Genre(s): Food and Drink, Travelogue
  • Era(s): 2010-2012

Bakken, a poet and university professor of creative writing, leads the reader on a lyrical tour of Greek cuisine – from foraged greens, freshly caught octopus, wild thyme honey, showing us how Greek food is produced, procured, prepared, and...

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...

How to Make a Bomb

How to Make a Bomb
  • Author(s): Rupert Thomson
  • Location(s): Cadiz, Crete
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): contemporary

Philip Notman, an acclaimed historian, attends a conference in Bergen, Norway. On his return to London, and to his wife and son, something unexpected and inexplicable happens to him, and he is unable to settle back into his normal...

HYDRA IN WINTER: An Island Escape in Search of a Greek Pirate

HYDRA IN WINTER: An Island Escape in Search of a Greek Pirate
  • Author(s): Shelley Dark
  • Location(s): Hydra
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Travelogue
  • Era(s): Contemporary

When Shelley Dark lands solo on the Greek island of Hydra for two weeks in the dead of winter, she’s not chasing sunny beaches. She’s hunting a pirate—her husband’s great-great-grandfather and Australia’s first Greek convict. Armed with an umbrella,...

HYDRA IN WINTER: An Island Escape in Search of a Greek Pirate

HYDRA IN WINTER: An Island Escape in Search of a Greek Pirate
  • Author(s): Shelley Dark
  • Location(s): Hydra
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): modern day

When I land solo on the Greek island of Hydra for two weeks in the dead of winter, I’m not chasing sunny beaches. I’m hunting a pirate — my husband’s great-great-grandfather and Australia’s first Greek convict. Armed with an...

Ill Met By Moonlight

Ill Met By Moonlight
  • Author(s): W. Stanley Moss
  • Location(s): Crete
  • Genre(s): Historical, Nonfiction
  • Era(s): WW2

Ill Met By Moonlight is the true story of one of the most hazardous missions of the Second World War. W. Stanley Moss is a young British officer who, along with Major Patrick Leigh Fermor, sets out in Nazi-occupied...

In the Shade of the Monkey Puzzle Tree

In the Shade of the Monkey Puzzle Tree
  • Author(s): Sara Alexi
  • Location(s): Greece
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Mid-life brings problems. For Theo it makes him wonder if there is more to the world than the small village where he has lived all his life and, if there is, how far he needs to go to find...

Indians on Vacation

Indians on Vacation
  • Author(s): Thomas King
  • Location(s): Greece, Canada, United States (USA)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Indigenous
  • Era(s): present day

Meet Bird and Mimi in this brilliant novel from one of Canada’s foremost authors. Inspired by a handful of old postcards sent by Uncle Leroy nearly a hundred years earlier, Bird and Mimi attempt to trace Mimi’s long-lost uncle...

Isadora

Isadora
  • Author(s): Amelia Gray
  • Location(s): Paris, Greece, Italy
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1913

As dynamic, enthralling, and powerful as the visionary artist it captures, Amelia Gray’s Isadora is a relentless and living portrayal of a woman who shattered convention, even in the darkest days of her life. In 1913, Isadora Duncan was...

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