Why Join?

  • Add New Books

  • Write a Review

  • Backpack Reading Lists

  • Newsletter Updates

Join Now

Filter:

Poetry From The Lady of the Pier Series

Poetry From The Lady of the Pier Series
  • Author(s): Effrosyni Moschoudi
  • Location(s): Athens, Corfu
  • Genre(s): Novella, Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Joanna boards a flight from JFK to visit the Greek island of Sifnos again after twenty years. All this time, despite the distance and her life’s circumstances, she’s been holding on to precious memories from an old summer love....

Ruins

Ruins
  • Author(s): Amy Taylor
  • Location(s): Athens
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Erotica, Suspense
  • Era(s): Contemporary

At a crossroads in their lives, a couple arrives in Greece to house-sit for a friend. Emma is searching for a meaningful next step beyond work or starting a family, and Julian is struggling to come to terms with...

The Carpet Weaver of Usak

The Carpet Weaver of Usak
  • Author(s): Kathryn Gauci
  • Location(s): Anatolia, Athens, Uşak
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): WW2 forwards

A haunting story of a deep friendship between two women, one Greek, one Turk. A friendship that transcends an era of mistrust, and fear, long after the wars have ended. “Springtime and early summer are always beautiful in Anatolia....

The Father-Daughter Club

The Father-Daughter Club
  • Location(s): Scotland, Athens, Hydra, Lake Garda
  • Era(s): Contemporary

This book won an IPPY Bronze Medal in 2016, in the Best Regional Fiction Europe, category. David and Elizabeth Fredericks are spending a month away from their home in Eastern Scotland. Traveling through Greece and Italy, they plan to...

The Gates of Athens

The Gates of Athens
  • Author(s): Conn Iggulden
  • Location(s): Athens
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 490-480 BC

Book One in the Athenian series A STATESMAN IS BORN, NOT MADE . . . Marathon. A Persian king stands at last on Greek soil. His Immortals have come to raze the cities of the west. The Athenians are...

The Glass Class

The Glass Class
  • Author(s): Suzi Stembridge
  • Location(s): Athens, Calderdale, Snowdonia, Spetses
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance, Thriller
  • Era(s): Late 1970s

Close friends gather at the graveside of the most favoured of this group of privileged young people. Readers discover than Rosalind who has been jilted in favour of her cousin Lucinda, now the widow must suffer the indignity of...

The Necklace of Goddess Athena

The Necklace of Goddess Athena
  • Author(s): Effrosyni Moschoudi
  • Location(s): Athens
  • Genre(s): Fantasy, Romance, Science Fiction/Future, Suspense
  • Era(s): Modern day/ancient times

The Necklace of Goddess Athena is a moving family story of mystery, drama and romance, while its supernatural elements will delight lovers of Greek mythology. Phevos and his sister Daphne are time travelers from ancient Greece. Their father, a...

The Truth Is A Lie

The Truth Is A Lie
  • Author(s): Rania Stone
  • Location(s): Athens
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Current

Sometimes we live the lie, become the lie … In the heart of Athens, where ancient history meets the present, Sophia arrives to study tourism at a private college. Little does she know, her life is about to take...

The Unwanted Dead: The Shocking End of Zorba’s Heretical Author

The Unwanted Dead: The Shocking End of Zorba’s Heretical Author
  • Author(s): Yorgos Pratanos
  • Location(s): Athens, Crete, France
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): late 1950s

A WIDOW with the heartbreaking duty of escorting her husband’s body to his motherland, the last wish of a dying man. The HERETIC, who rose to prominence with his fierce and unyielding books, praised and beloved by an entire...

Uncle Petros and Goldbach’s Conjecture

Uncle Petros and Goldbach’s Conjecture
  • Author(s): Apostolos Doxiadis
  • Location(s): Greece, Athens
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 20th century

Uncle Petros is a family joke. An ageing recluse, he lives alone in a suburb of Athens, playing chess and tending to his garden. If you didn’t know better, you’d surely think he was one of life’s failures. But...

Refine Location

Locations in Athens

Would you like to add a book or a review or create a reading list? Join Today – It's FREE

Register Now