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The Time of My Life

The Time of My Life
  • Author(s): Samantha Tonge
  • Location(s): Greece
  • Genre(s): Romance, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

How far would you go to change your life? When Eliza Woods sees an advertisement for someone’s whole life for sale – their house, car, all their belongings, even their clothes and cat – not to mention a trial-run...

The Truth Is A Lie

The Truth Is A Lie
  • Author(s): Rania Stone
  • Location(s): Athens
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Current

Sometimes we live the lie, become the lie … In the heart of Athens, where ancient history meets the present, Sophia arrives to study tourism at a private college. Little does she know, her life is about to take...

The Unquiet Mind

The Unquiet Mind
  • Author(s): Sara Alexi
  • Location(s): Greece
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Yanni has lived all his life in semi isolation, on the ridge at the top of the island, with only his parents and their herd of goats for company. But when the family’s donkey dies, the burden rests on...

The Unwanted Dead: The Shocking End of Zorba’s Heretical Author

The Unwanted Dead: The Shocking End of Zorba’s Heretical Author
  • Author(s): Yorgos Pratanos
  • Location(s): Athens, Crete, France
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): late 1950s

A WIDOW with the heartbreaking duty of escorting her husband’s body to his motherland, the last wish of a dying man. The HERETIC, who rose to prominence with his fierce and unyielding books, praised and beloved by an entire...

The Village. A Novel of Wartime Crete

The Village. A Novel of Wartime Crete
  • Author(s): Philip Duke
  • Location(s): Crete
  • Genre(s): Historical
  • Era(s): 1940s

A Cretan village confronts the Nazi juggernaut sweeping across Europe. A village matriarch tries to hold her family together…Her grieving son finds a new life in the Cretan Resistance…A naive English soldier unwillingly finds the warrior in himself…And a...

The Walls of Byzantium

The Walls of Byzantium
  • Author(s): James Heneage
  • Location(s): Khios (Chios), Monemvasia, The Peloponnese
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 15th Century/Byzantine

This remarkable, sweeping historical novel, rich in story and character, is shaped by the quest for a hidden treasure, rumoured to bequeath riches beyond belief and guarded by successive generations of famed warriors. Fifteenth-century Europe: a time of warring...

The Water and the Wine

The Water and the Wine
  • Author(s): Tamar Hodes
  • Location(s): Hydra
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): 1960s

It is the 1960s and a group of young writers and artists gather on the Greek island of Hydra. Leonard Cohen is at the start of his career and in love with Marianne, who is also muse to her...

The Wedding Party

The Wedding Party
  • Author(s): Tammy Cohen
  • Location(s): Kefalonia (Cephalonia)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

Till death do us part . . . Lucy has dreamt of her wedding day for as long as she can remember. And now the day is almost here. Her nearest and dearest are gathered on an idyllic Greek...

The Widow’s Cruise

The Widow’s Cruise
  • Author(s): Nicholas Blake
  • Location(s): Greece
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): Golden Age

A VINTAGE MURDER MYSTERY When private detective Nigel Strangeways books tickets for a holiday in the Greek islands with renowned sculptor Claire Massinger, he has no idea that the trip will end in tragedy. From the moment the boat...

The Wine-Dark Sea

The Wine-Dark Sea
  • Author(s): Victoria Hislop
  • Location(s): Greece
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): Second half 20th Century

Beloved, bestselling author Victoria Hislop explores the turbulence of the post-war era in Greece in this unforgettable and riveting new novel that will delight those fans who cherish The Island and The Figurine. During three years of brutal civil...

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