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Hearts of Stone

Hearts of Stone
  • Author(s): Simon Scarrow
  • Location(s): Lefkas (Lefkada)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): WW2

The fierce courage of the men and women of the Greek Resistance is brought to vivid life in Sunday Times bestseller Simon Scarrow’s powerful novel of World War II. ‘Gripping… moving narrative of friendships broken by war and betrayal’ Sunday Times...

Losing Venice

Losing Venice
  • Author(s): Scott Stavrou
  • Location(s): Venice, Hydra, Prague
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Surrounded by beauty, can you learn to live beautifully? Travel marketing executive Mark Vandermar leads an itinerant life. Elsewhere is where he calls home, so it’s no surprise when he’s called to Venice to help craft the Venice Tourism...

One August Night

One August Night
  • Author(s): Victoria Hislop
  • Location(s): Crete
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1957 onwards

Beloved author Victoria Hislop returns to Crete in this long-anticipated sequel to her multi-million-copy Number One bestseller, The Island. 25th August 1957. The island of Spinalonga closes its leper colony. And a moment of violence has devastating consequences. When...

Sunsets in Oia

Sunsets in Oia
  • Author(s): Sheila Busteed
  • Location(s): Oia, Santorini
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

Selene Doherty’s excitement from the successful tour with her band is cut short when she learns that her parents were killed in the Athens riots. After the funeral, she escapes to her bequeathed summer home on the island of...

Taverna by the Sea

Taverna by the Sea
  • Author(s): Jennifer Barclay
  • Location(s): Karpathos, Tilos
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Travelogue
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Taverna by the Sea is an enchanting, funny, poignant travel memoir about answering the call of adventure by taking on the challenge of running a Greek beach taverna. During a walking holiday on the island of Karpathos, a chance...

The Dark Labyrinth

The Dark Labyrinth
  • Author(s): Lawrence Durrell
  • Location(s): Crete
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Mid 20th Century

This captivating Mediterranean novel was written by Lawrence Durrell immediately after finishing his exquisite vignette about Corfu, Prospero’s Cell, and a decade before Justine. The story is set on Crete just after the War, as an odd assortment of English travellers...

The Ebb (The Lady of the Pier)

The Ebb (The Lady of the Pier)
  • Author(s): Effrosyni Moschoudi
  • Location(s): Brighton, Corfu
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): 1930s and 1980s

When Sofia falls in love, a mourning spirit begins to haunt her… CORFU, 1987 On a long holiday with her grandparents, Sofia Aspioti meets Danny Markson, a charming flirt who makes her laugh. Although she tries to keep him...

The Feast of Artemis #7

The Feast of Artemis #7
  • Author(s): Anne Zouroudi
  • Location(s): Kalamata
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): Modern

The olive harvest is drawing to a close in the town of Dendra, set in fictionalised Kalamata in the Peloponnese, and when Hermes Diaktoros arrives for the celebratory festival he expects an indulgent day of food and wine. But...

The Greek for Love

The Greek for Love
  • Author(s): James Chatto
  • Location(s): Corfu
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Modern

The two-line ad in the Sunday Times advertising Villa Parginos in Corfu conjured an image of long afternoons drinking wine on a marble patio shaded by a grape arbour, looking out over an impossibly blue Greek sea. Instead James...

The Greek Holiday

The Greek Holiday
  • Author(s): Maeve Haran
  • Location(s): The Cyclades
  • Genre(s): RomCom
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Four old university friends, Dora, Penny, Nell and Moira, reunite to relive that first hippy-dippy trip together to a beautiful, unspoilt, romantic Greek island looking for sun, sand and sea. But it’s not just about going back to when...

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