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The Liars

The Liars
  • Author(s): Katherine Fleet
  • Location(s): Greece
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

I thought I saw her today. Down by the water. It was her hair I noticed. Do you ever see her, Lex? Does she haunt you too? I haven’t been back to Eos since I first met my step-sister,...

The Lost Crown of Apollo

The Lost Crown of Apollo
  • Author(s): Suzanne Cordatos
  • Location(s): Delos, Mykonos
  • Genre(s): Children, Fiction

Embark on a boating vacation to the sunny Greek islands of cosmopolitan Mykonos and “mini Pompeii” Delos with the Tantalos family. You’ll meet headless statues and the Mykonos mascot–a pelican named Petros–and chase around lizards nicknamed Highway and Sunny....

The Magus

The Magus
  • Author(s): John Fowles
  • Location(s): Spetses
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 20th century

On a remote Greek Island, Nicholas Urfe finds himself embroiled in the deceptions of a master trickster. As reality and illusion intertwine, Urfe is caught up in the darkest of psychological games. John Fowles expertly unfolds a tale that...

The Mask of Apollo

The Mask of Apollo
  • Author(s): Mary Renault
  • Location(s): Greece, Delphi
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Fourth-century BC

Combining the scholarship of a historian with the imagination of a novelist, Mary Renault brings the ancient Greek stage thrillingly to life. Set in fourth-century B.C. Greece, The Mask of Apollo is narrated by Nikeratos, a tragic actor who...

The Memory of Tides

The Memory of Tides
  • Author(s): Angelo Loukakis
  • Location(s): Australia, Crete
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): WW1

This moving novel of fate and love stretches from the mountains of Crete to the dreams of post-war Australia, is inspired by historical events, and of the Australian soldiers who took part in the Battle of Crete during World...

The Moon-Spinners

The Moon-Spinners
  • Author(s): Mary Stewart
  • Location(s): Crete
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1960s

While on a walking holiday through the beautiful, deserted hills of Crete, Nicola Ferris stumbles across a critically injured Englishman, guarded by a fierce Greek. Nicola cannot abandon them and so sets off on a perilous search for their...

The Names

The Names
  • Author(s): Don DeLillo
  • Location(s): Greece, Middle East
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Don DeLillo’s seventh novel is an exotic thriller. Set mostly in Greece, it concerns a mysterious ‘language cult’ seemingly behind a number of unexplained murders. Obsessed by news of this ritualistic violence, an American risk analyst is drawn to...

The Necklace of Goddess Athena

The Necklace of Goddess Athena
  • Author(s): Effrosyni Moschoudi
  • Location(s): Athens
  • Genre(s): Fantasy, Romance, Science Fiction/Future, Suspense
  • Era(s): Modern day/ancient times

The Necklace of Goddess Athena is a moving family story of mystery, drama and romance, while its supernatural elements will delight lovers of Greek mythology. Phevos and his sister Daphne are time travelers from ancient Greece. Their father, a...

The Nifi

The Nifi
  • Author(s): Linda Fagioli Katsiotas
  • Location(s): Margariti
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): 1980s

The Nifi opens in 1983 in the remote Greek village of Margariti where the narrator, a young American woman who speaks no Greek, finds herself. A month before, back in a New York suburb, she had impulsively married a...

The Nude

The Nude
  • Author(s): C Michelle Lindley
  • Location(s): Greece
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1999

1999: An island off the southern coast of Greece. Art historian Elizabeth Clarke arrives with the intent to acquire a rare female sculpture. But what begins as a quest for a highly valued cultural artifact evolves into a trip...

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