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The Colossus of Rhodes

The Colossus of Rhodes
  • Author(s): Caroline Lawrence
  • Location(s): Rhodes
  • Genre(s): Adventure, Children
  • Era(s): 79 AD

Anxious to solve the mystery of whether his mother is still alive, and keen to follow his uncle’s dying wish, Lupus and his friends sail to the island of Rhodes, site of one of the seven wonders of the...

The Cretan Runner

The Cretan Runner
  • Author(s): George Psychoundakis
  • Location(s): Crete
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): WW2

George Psychoundakis was a young shepherd boy who knew the island of Crete intimately when the Nazis invaded by air in 1941. He immediately joined the resistance and took on the crucial job of war-time runner. It was not...

The Crete Connection

The Crete Connection
  • Author(s): John Manuel
  • Location(s): Crete
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): Modern / 20 years ago

In rural Wiltshire, England, a six month-old baby disappears from a stroller while its mother is inside a store for just two minutes. A young Englishman begins a summer of adventure on the Greek island of Crete. By pure...

The Daughter of The Merchant of Venice

The Daughter of The Merchant of Venice
  • Author(s): Stephen Sturgess
  • Location(s): Crete, Istanbul (Constantinople), Venice
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 16th Century

The Daughter of the Merchant of Venice is an intriguing love story that follows the romance between an apprentice artist named Stefano D’Alvino and Giustina Boschetti, the daughter of a Venetian merchant. Theirs is a story of love, betrayal, forgiveness,...

The Destroyers

The Destroyers
  • Author(s): Christopher Bollen
  • Location(s): Patmos
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Ian Bledsoe is on the run, broke and humiliated, fleeing the emotional and financial fallout of his father’s death. His childhood friend Charlie – rich, exuberant and basking in life on the Greek island of Patmos – is his last hope. At...

The Disappearance

The Disappearance
  • Author(s): Annabel Kantaria
  • Location(s): Cornwall, Greece, Mumbai (Bombay)
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Dual timeline 1970s / 2017

In a family built on lies, who can you trust? Audrey Bailey will never forget the moment she met Ralph Templeton in the sweltering heat of a Bombay café. Her lonely life over, she was soon married with two...

The Echoes of Love

The Echoes of Love
  • Author(s): Jenny Ashcroft
  • Location(s): Crete
  • Genre(s): Historical, Romance
  • Era(s): 1936 / WW2

Under the Cretan sun, in the summer of 1936, two young people fall in love… Eleni has been coming to Crete her entire life, swapping her English home for cherished sun-baked summers with her grandfather, in the shoreside villa...

The Embroiderer

The Embroiderer
  • Author(s): Kathryn Gauci
  • Location(s): Greece, Türkiye (Turkey)
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 19thc and 20thc

From the Jacket: The Embroiderer Set against the mosques and minarets of Asia Minor and the ruins of ancient Athens, The Embroiderer is a gripping saga of love and loss, hope and despair, and of the extraordinary courage of...

The English Lesson

The English Lesson
  • Author(s): Sara Alexi
  • Location(s): Greece
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

The English Lesson – A Novella. Toula receives an invitation to her granddaughter’s third birthday. To attend means a trip from her beloved Greece to England, where her daughter’s family have settled. Her husband refuses to go and in...

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...

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