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The Rush Cutter’s Legacy

The Rush Cutter’s Legacy
  • Author(s): Sara Alexi
  • Location(s): Greece
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

The Rush Cutter’s Legacy. Book fifteen in the Greek Village Collection Born and bred in a small agricultural village, Vasso spends her days in the yellow wooden kiosk at its heart, keeping the locals supplied with cigarettes, sweets, ice...

The Santorini Writing Retreat

The Santorini Writing Retreat
  • Author(s): Eva Glyn
  • Location(s): Santorini
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Three women, one writing retreat, endless possibilities… Bestselling author Jessica Rose needs to escape from a terrible secret that’s robbed her of her creativity. Could leading a retreat on a gorgeous Greek island be just what she needs? Coming...

The School of Homer

The School of Homer
  • Author(s): Alexander Marriott
  • Location(s): Ithaka (Ithaca)
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): Present

Virgil Colvin, a retired homicide detective, leaves his hometown Chicago to resurrect his honeymoon memories with his dead wife in Ithaca, Greece. There, he befriends the Vathy police chief, Costas Pantakalas, over stories of a shared profession and countless...

The Second Chance Hotel

The Second Chance Hotel
  • Author(s): Sierra Godfrey
  • Location(s): The Cyclades
  • Genre(s): Humour, Fiction, RomCom
  • Era(s): Contemporary

It’s all fun and games until you accidentally marry a stranger in Greece and inherit a hotel. Amelia Lang’s life is kind of a mess. She’s stuck living at home with her narcissistic mother. Her tech bro ex-boyfriend deliberately sabotages...

The Secrets of the Little Greek Taverna

The Secrets of the Little Greek Taverna
  • Author(s): Erin Palmisano
  • Location(s): Naxos
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Cressida is stuck. Cressida once dreamt of opening a gorgeous guest house and taverna with her husband – but when he died, so did the dream. Lost in grief, Cressida is offered two choices – let a big hotel...

The Shadow of Perseus

The Shadow of Perseus
  • Author(s): Claire Heywood
  • Location(s): Greece
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical, Romance
  • Era(s): 100s BCE

Perfect for fans of Jennifer Saint, Elodie Harper and Natalie Haynes, author of Daughters of Sparta Claire Heywood returns with an imaginative reinterpretation of the myth of the great hero Perseus, bringing to life the voices of three women...

The Siege: A Novel

The Siege: A Novel
  • Author(s): Marilyn Baron
  • Location(s): Chania, Florence
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Artist Theia Constas receives a tour of Italy from her grandmother as a college graduation present. Before she departs, her ya-ya’s deathbed revelation of a cache of WWII photographs and love letters extends Theia’s itinerary to Crete in search...

The Sifnos Chronicles I: tales from a greek isle

The Sifnos Chronicles I: tales from a greek isle
  • Author(s): Sharon Blomfield
  • Location(s): Sifnos
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Travelogue
  • Era(s): present day

Quirky and beguiling, often unwittingly funny, and always so utterly kind, the people of the Greek island of Sifnos charm and fascinate. They roar past on motorbikes with whole families squeezed on top, plus whatever earthly goods they can...

The Silence of the Girls

The Silence of the Girls
  • Author(s): Pat Barker
  • Location(s): Greece
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Ancient Greece

Shortlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction, the Costa Novel Award and the International DUBLIN Literary Award There was a woman at the heart of the Trojan war whose voice has been silent – till now. Discover the greatest...

The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants

The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
  • Author(s): Ann Brashears
  • Location(s): Santorini, Bethesda, Loreto, South Carolina
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Carmen got the jeans at a thrift shop. They didn’t look all that great: they were worn, dirty, and speckled with bleach. On the night before she and her friends part for the summer, Carmen decides to toss them....

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