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Take a Chance on Greece

Take a Chance on Greece
  • Author(s): Emily Kerr
  • Location(s): Kefalonia (Cephalonia)
  • Genre(s): RomCom
  • Era(s): Contemporary

When Lydia wakes up after a wild night out in Kefalonia with a tattoo saying ‘Awesome Andreas’, she’s mortified. She doesn’t remember meeting anyone called Andreas. And after all, she’s an accountant with a five-year plan. She’s definitely not...

Terrible With Raisins

Terrible With Raisins
  • Author(s): Lynne McVernon
  • Location(s): Symi, England, Florida, Greece, Scotland
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 21C

There’s a big birthday looming. Clair tries hiding from it on the Aegean island of Symi, Greece. Inevitably it catches up with her. But so do a couple of possibilities, interesting, attractive ones…Encouraged, she departs the Greek idyll to...

The Age of Olympus

The Age of Olympus
  • Author(s): Gavin Scott
  • Location(s): Greece
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Duncan Forrester has travelled to Greece, intent on recovering the ancient Cretan stone he discovered during the war, while part of an SOE mission to kidnap a German commander. But during a visit to Athens he witnesses the poisoning...

The Art of Becoming Homeless #5

The Art of Becoming Homeless #5
  • Author(s): Sara Alexi
  • Location(s): Greece
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Michelle has always had a positive attitude to work and responsibility and has made all the ‘right’ choices. Why then does she feel she might have ended up in the wrong place? Disenchanted with life as a high-flying lawyer...

The Broken Road: From the Iron Gates to Mount Athos

The Broken Road: From the Iron Gates to Mount Athos
  • Author(s): Patrick Leigh Fermor
  • Location(s): Balkans, Greece
  • Genre(s): Travelogue
  • Era(s): 1930s

A Time of Gifts and Between the Woods and the Water were the first two volumes in a projected trilogy that would describe the walk that Patrick Leigh Fermor undertook at the age of eighteen from the Hook of...

The Bull of Mithros #6

The Bull of Mithros #6
  • Author(s): Anne Zouroudi
  • Location(s): Corfu
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): Modern looking back

Fictionalised Corfu. Drawn to the sun-drenched island of Mithros by the myth of its fabled bull, the arrival of investigator Hermes Diaktoros coincides with a violent and troubling death. The death has echoes in Mithros’s past, in a brutal...

The Butterfly Storm

The Butterfly Storm
  • Author(s): Kate Frost
  • Location(s): Greece, Bristol, Norfolk
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Four years ago life for Sophie Keech was perfect. A new start in Greece with Alekos, her boyfriend of just six weeks, removes Sophie from a mundane 9-5 job, takes her away from the difficult relationship she has 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 Children of Jocasta

The Children of Jocasta
  • Author(s): Natalie Haynes
  • Location(s): Greece
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

In The Children of Jocasta, Natalie Haynes takes a fresh perspective on an ancient story, reimagining in gripping prose how the Oedipus and Antigone stories would look if the oft-overlooked female characters took centre stage. Retelling the myth to...

The Colossus of Maroussi

The Colossus of Maroussi
  • Author(s): Henry Miller
  • Location(s): Greece
  • Genre(s): Travelogue, Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): 1930s

‘Out of the sea, as if Homer himself had arranged it for me, the islands bobbed up, lonely, deserted, mysterious in the fading light’ Enraptured by a young woman’s account of the landscapes of Greece, Henry Miller set off...

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