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Lifelines

Lifelines
  • Author(s): Julian Hoffman
  • Location(s): Prespes Region
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Early 2000s

In the summer of 2000, Julian Hoffman and his wife Julia found themselves disillusioned with city life. Overwhelmed by long commutes, they stumbled upon a book about Prespa, Greece – a remote corner of Europe filled with stone villages,...

Little Infamies

Little Infamies
  • Author(s): Panos Karnezis
  • Location(s): Greece
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Various

Panos Karnezis’ remarkable stories are all set in the same nameless Greek village. His characters are the people who live there – the priest, the barber, the whore, the doctor, the seamstress, the mayor – and the occasional animal:...

Looking for the Durrells

Looking for the Durrells
  • Author(s): Melanie Hewitt
  • Location(s): Corfu
  • Genre(s): RomCom
  • Era(s): Contemporary

After a year that sees a broken-off engagement and the death of her beloved father, Penny is desperate to get away. Fulfilling a childhood dream, she sets off on a month-long pilgrimage to Corfu–an island idyll she knows only...

Lore

Lore
  • Author(s): Alexandra Bracken
  • Location(s): Greece
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction, Young Adult
  • Era(s): Ancient Greece

From the No.1 New York Times bestselling author of THE DARKEST MINDS comes a high-octane story of power, destiny and redemption. A lifetime ago, Lore Perseous left behind the brutal, opulent world of the Agon families – ancient Greek...

Lost in Crete

Lost in Crete
  • Author(s): Laurie Strange
  • Location(s): Crete
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary looking back

Why does news of the discovery of a Minoan earring turn Diane’s world on its head? And what is her daughter Catherine, single parent to Ellie, to make of the holiday break that is suddenly announced for all three?...

Love & Olives

Love & Olives
  • Author(s): Jenna Evans Welch
  • Location(s): Santorini
  • Genre(s): Young Adult
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A New York Times Bestseller From the New York Times bestselling author of Love & Gelato comes a Mamma Mia!-inspired tale about a teen girl finding romance while trying to connect with her absent father in beautiful Santorini, Greece....

Love On Location

Love On Location
  • Author(s): Lynne Shelby
  • Location(s): London, Athens, Greek Islands
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

When screenwriter Laurel Martin is hired to rewrite the script for a new timeslip blockbuster, she expects the historical advisor hired by the studio to be an elderly academic who won’t interfere too much with her writing. But when...

Love on the Island

Love on the Island
  • Author(s): Jessica Gilmore
  • Location(s): Greece
  • Genre(s): RomCom
  • Era(s): Contemporary

One week. Two couples. A holiday they’ll never forget… Indi Drewe is turning thirty and is exactly where she wants to be: she’s on the cusp of a promotion, lives in her gorgeous London flat and is sure her...

Made by Sea and Wood, in Darkness

Made by Sea and Wood, in Darkness
  • Author(s): Alexandros Plasatis
  • Location(s): Egypt, Greece, Kavala
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 2000s

Made by Sea and Wood, in Darkness takes place in and around a 24/7 harbourside café in a Greek town. It tells the story of the Egyptian immigrants who work as fishermen on the trawlers and other outcasts who...

Mani: Travels in the Southern Peloponnese

Mani: Travels in the Southern Peloponnese
  • Author(s): Patrick Leigh Fermor
  • Location(s): The Peloponnese
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Mid 20th Century

This is Patrick Leigh Fermor’s spellbinding part-travelogue, part inspired evocation of a part of Greece’s past. Joining him in the Mani, one of Europe’s wildest and most isolated regions, cut off from the rest of Greece by the towering...

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