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Return to the Parthenon

Return to the Parthenon
  • Author(s): Graham Bishop
  • Location(s): Cythera (Kythira)
  • Genre(s): Crime

When HMS Mentor sank off the island of Kythira in 1802, 17 crates of sculptures prized off the Parthenon on the orders of Lord Elgin went to the bottom of the sea. Later they were all salvaged and taken...

Rodanthe’s Gift

Rodanthe’s Gift
  • Author(s): Yvonne Payne
  • Location(s): Crete, Greece
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1823 to 1830

In January 1823, four mourners stand over the shrouded body of the exceptional female rebel, Rodanthe. Each suffers the loss of a daughter, friend, lost love or valued ally. Her injured papa, Mathaios, kneels at her graveside, begging forgiveness...

Roumeli: Travels in Northern Greece

Roumeli: Travels in Northern Greece
  • Author(s): Patrick Leigh Fermor
  • Location(s): Greece
  • Genre(s): Travelogue
  • Era(s): 20th century

Patrick Leigh Fermor’s ‘Mani’ compellingly revealed a hidden world of Southern Greece and its past. Its northern counterpart takes the reader among Sarakatsan shepherds, the monasteries of Meteora and the villages of Krakora, among itinerant pedlars and beggars, and...

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...

SBS: Special Boat Squadron

SBS: Special Boat Squadron
  • Author(s): Iain Gale
  • Location(s): Rhodes, Crete, Greece
  • Genre(s): Historical, Adventure, Fiction
  • Era(s): World War II

A historical adventure chronicling the exploits of the Special Boat Squadron, the seaborne raiders who, by strength and guile, carried out World War Two’s most daring covert operations. From this moment on, you and your men, you don’t exist....

Sea of Shadows

Sea of Shadows
  • Author(s): Amy Maroney
  • Location(s): Rhodes, Greece
  • Genre(s): Historical, Suspense
  • Era(s): Fifteenth century (medieval/Renaissance)

A mesmerizing historical novel of Renaissance Europe. 1459, Island of Rhodes, Greece. No one suspects Anica Foscolo is responsible for her Venetian father’s exquisite portraits, least of all her wealthy fiancé. But her father’s vision is failing, and with...

Secrets of Santorini

Secrets of Santorini
  • Author(s): Patricia Wilson
  • Location(s): Santorini
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): contemporary

Sent away to a convent school in Dublin at the age of five, Irini McGuire has always had a strained and distant relationship with her mother, Bridget, a celebrated archaeologist who lives on the paradise island of Santorini. So,...

See Delphi and Die

See Delphi and Die
  • Author(s): Lindsey Davis
  • Location(s): Delphi, Greece
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): AD 69-90

Falco 17 Delphi features only in Part 4. THE ANCIENT SPORTS OF MURDER AND MYTH Stunned by a dramatic appeal from his otherwise cool mother-in-law, Falco cannot resist. His brother-in-law has been diverted from his route to Athens University...

Sifnos Chronicles 2: more greek island tales

Sifnos Chronicles 2: more greek island tales
  • Author(s): Sharon Blomfield
  • Location(s): Sifnos
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Travelogue
  • Era(s): present day

A taverna … a monstrous platter of fish … then a second. We didn’t order these, don’t really like fish. But they’re a gift, the cook is watching and the giver is too. Life in a secluded Greek fishing...

Sixty Summers

Sixty Summers
  • Author(s): Amanda Hampson
  • Location(s): Greece
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 2020s

3 women who met in their 20s in London and travelled around Europe in a van are now 60 and have very differences lives. They decide to celebrate and rekindle their youthful trip but things just aren’t the same....

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