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Aspasia: A Novel of Suspense and Secrets

Aspasia: A Novel of Suspense and Secrets
  • Author(s): Florence Wetzel
  • Location(s): Crete
  • Genre(s): Thriller, Suspense
  • Era(s): modern day

A peaceful mountain village in 1990s Crete. Katerina is an American woman who lives a tranquil life with her husband Dimitris and their daughter Aspasia. But when Dimitris leaves to work on a cargo ship, a terrible secret shatters...

At the Palaces of Knossos

At the Palaces of Knossos
  • Author(s): Nikos Kazantzakis, Themi Vasils, Theodora Vasils
  • Location(s): Crete
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1000 BC

Blending historical fact and classical myth, the author of Zorba the Greek and The Last Temptation of Christ transports the reader 3,000 years into the past, to a pivotal point in history: the final days before the ancient kingdom...

Being Shirley

Being Shirley
  • Author(s): Michelle Vernal
  • Location(s): Elounda, Greece
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern Day

“Who’s Shirley Valentine?” Shirley Valentine was Roz’s favourite film. It was about a repressed, middle-aged housewife from Liverpool who spends her days talking to her kitchen wall. When she leaves her husband for an impromptu holiday to the Greek...

Beneath the Lemon Trees

Beneath the Lemon Trees
  • Author(s): Emma Burstall
  • Location(s): Crete
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A magical villa. A life-changing summer… Heartbroken after the loss of a friend and the collapse of her marriage, Stella hopes that this trip to the idyllic Greek island of Crete will give her and her family a chance...

Beside the Turquoise Sea

Beside the Turquoise Sea
  • Author(s): Emma Burstall
  • Location(s): Crete
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Can one magical Crete villa change everything? Now her children have moved out, Edie has begun to feel lonely in the home she shares with her husband. She hopes returning to Crete, where she and Ralph spent their honeymoon,...

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...

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...

Dancing the Labyrinth

Dancing the Labyrinth
  • Author(s): Karen Marten
  • Location(s): Crete
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

In this dual time novel, Cressida travels to Crete to escape her troubled past. Her life takes an unexpected turn when she discovers she is pregnant. Cressida fears her child will inherit her father’s abusive traits and her mother’s...

Daughters of The Labyrinth

Daughters of The Labyrinth
  • Author(s): Ruth Padel
  • Location(s): Chania, Crete
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary looking back

This was my home. This harbour and sea. These golden alleys. But the town I grew up in has disappeared. Ri is a successful international artist who has worked in London all her life. When her English husband dies...

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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