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- Location(s): Dodecanese Islands, Symi
- Genre(s): Mystery
- Era(s): Modern
When the battered body of a young woman is discovered on a remote Greek island, the local police are quick to dismiss her death as an accident. Then a stranger arrives, uninvited, from Athens, announcing his intention to investigate...
- Location(s): Corfu, Zagoria
- Genre(s): Travelogue
- Era(s): 1980s and 1990s
Roy & Effie Hounsell escaped from England to Corfu in 1980, before deciding in 1991 to buy and renovate a traditional stone house in Koukouli, one of the 46 villages in remote, mountainous Zagoria, on the north west Greek...
The Storm Sister (The Seven Sisters)
- Location(s): Geneva, Germany, Greece, Norway
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1870s, Modern
Ally D’Aplièse is about to compete in one of the world’s most perilous yacht races, when she hears the news of her adoptive father’s sudden, mysterious death. Rushing back to meet her five sisters at their family home, she...
- Location(s): Athens, Crete, Europe
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1960s
Two men meet in the picturesque backstreets of Athens. Chester MacFarlane is a conman with multiple false identities, near the end of his rope and on the run with his young wife Colette. Rydal Keener is a young drifter...
- Location(s): Cyprus, Greek Islands
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1990s
Orestis is a young man who refuses to accept his lot in life. He wants a better job, a toned body, his own place, a brighter future. On a night out, he bumps into an old school friend who...
- Location(s): Greece
- Genre(s): Mystery
- Era(s): Modern
It is winter in the mountains of Greece and as the snow falls in the tiny village of Vrisi a coffin is unearthed and broken open, revealing some unexpected remains to the astonished mourners gathered at the graveside. In...
- Location(s): Albania, Greece, Macedonia
- Genre(s): Travelogue
- Era(s): Present looking back
Lake Ohrid and Lake Prespa. Two vast lakes joined by underground rivers. Two lakes that seem to hold both the turbulent memories of the region’s past, and the secret of its enduring allure. Two lakes that have played a...
- Location(s): Athens, Crete
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Late 1960s, earlyu 1970s
It is the late 1960s and after her strict English boarding school, Angel is delighted to be back on Crete, the island she loves. She and her friend Chrissi are planning to spend the long summer days as they’ve...
- Location(s): Corfu
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): 1930s
Sometimes it’s pretty hard to tell them apart… my family and the animals, that is. I don’t know why my brothers and sisters complain so much. With snakes in the bath and scorpions on the lunch table, our house,...
- Location(s): Greece
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
Driven by a need for some control in her life, Juliet sells up on impulse and buys a dilapidated farmhouse in a tiny Greek village, leaving her English life behind. The house is livable by local standards, but the...
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