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The Final Problem

The Final Problem
  • Author(s): Arturo Peréz-Reverte, Frances Riddle (Translator)
  • Location(s): Greek Islands
  • Genre(s): Historical, Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): early 1960s

To catch a killer, one must act the part. Arriving on the Greek island of Utakos, ageing actor Ormond Basil hopes only for a holiday and perhaps finally to shed the mantle of his most famous role: world-renowned sleuth,...

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 Gemini Contenders

The Gemini Contenders
  • Author(s): Robert Ludlum
  • Location(s): Italy, Thessaloniki (Salonika)
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): WW2

Under cover of darkness, in Salonika, Greece, December 1939 an order of monks endeavours to transport a mysterious vault to a hiding place high in the Italian Alps. The contents hidden for years could blow apart the Christian world....

The Ghosts of Summer

The Ghosts of Summer
  • Author(s): Alex J Milan
  • Location(s): Greece
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Current

For fourteen years, since the death of her father and the disappearance of her mother, it has been just the two of them – Eva and her beloved grandmother Millie, and they have forged a seemingly unbreakable bond. Now...

The Girl Under the Olive Tree

The Girl Under the Olive Tree
  • Author(s): Leah Fleming
  • Location(s): Crete
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): WW2 and 21st Centruy

May 1941 and the island of Crete is invaded by paratroopers from the air. After a lengthy fight, thousands of British and Commonwealth soldiers are forced to take to the hills or become escaping PoWs, sheltered by the Cretan...

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 Golden Step

The Golden Step
  • Author(s): Christopher Somerville
  • Location(s): Crete
  • Genre(s): Travelogue
  • Era(s): 20th century

For Somerville this was a kind of pilgrimage, a journey unlike any he had undertaken in 20 years of travel-writing. It was an expedition where he traded the usual comforts and certainties for a real physical and mental challenge,...

The Great Chimera

The Great Chimera
  • Author(s): M Karagatsis
  • Location(s): Syros
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Early 20th Century

In this classic modern Greek novel set in the early 20th century, Marina, a lovely young French woman estranged from her mother, falls in love with a Greek sea captain and follows him to the island of Syros. Her...

The Greek Heart

The Greek Heart
  • Author(s): Kate Frost
  • Location(s): Greece, Dubrovnik, Paros, Santorini
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A broken heart, an island escape, a boy from the past. Will Lottie’s search lead to love? When a special anniversary takes Lottie on a journey to find the little boy she once knew, it’s a chance to put...

The Greek House

The Greek House
  • Author(s): Christopher Brechneff, Tim Lovejoy
  • Location(s): Sifnos
  • Genre(s): Travelogue
  • Era(s): 1970s till present day

It’s 1972 and the twenty-one year old artist author arrives on the island of Sifnos in the Cyclades in search of himself. On this primitive, far-flung island, where not even ferries can dock and roads are little more than...

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