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Whatever gets you through the night

Whatever gets you through the night
  • Author(s): Charlie Higson
  • Location(s): Corfu
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): 2020

Most people travel to Corfu to escape the real world for a couple of weeks and embrace the fantasy of olive trees, sandy beaches, and little fishing boats bobbing on sparkling blue water under a warm sun. But not...

Whatever It Takes

Whatever It Takes
  • Author(s): Joy Wood
  • Location(s): Nottingham, Greece
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

THE WIFE: Lorna lives with her husband in her dream home, loves socialising and has a passion for the finer things in life. THE HUSBAND: Dan owns a successful accountancy business, enjoys golf and exercise, and loves Lorna deeply....

When Every Road Whispers My Name

When Every Road Whispers My Name
  • Author(s): Maria Vano
  • Location(s): United States (USA), England, Greece, Hungary, Morocco, Spain
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Travelogue
  • Era(s): 2000-2021

One middle-aged woman with no money, three suitcases, a big dream, and a desire to see it all, sets out to live her best solo life. Calling on memories from her teen years when she lived in Rome, Italy,...

When Fishes Flew: The Story of Elena’s War

When Fishes Flew: The Story of Elena’s War
  • Author(s): Michael Morpurgo
  • Location(s): Ithaka (Ithaca)
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): WW2

This first new novel in two years from the Nation’s Favourite Storyteller is a sweeping story of love and rescue – an unforgettable journey to the Greek island of Ithaca, and back in time to World War Two… Australian-Greek...

When We Were Young

When We Were Young
  • Author(s): Jaclyn Goldis
  • Location(s): Corfu, Florida
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1940s to contemporary

Corfu, 1942: To sixteen-year-old Sarah Batis, the Nazis are a distant danger—of far greater threat is the opposing needs of her heart and her people. Tradition demands that Sarah marry a Jewish man. Only Sarah has fallen in love...

You Then, Me Now

You Then, Me Now
  • Author(s): Nick Alexander
  • Location(s): Santorini
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1980s/present day

Laura has been hiding the truth from her daughter Becky about who her father was. A surprise visit to Santorini leads to past secrets being exposed and a new future for both of them.

Your Own Kind

Your Own Kind
  • Author(s): Linda Fagioli Katsiotas
  • Location(s): Greece, New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1970s

It is 1974. Alexandros is a young man who has left his rural Greek village to come to New York to work in his cousin’s restaurant. The restaurant is in East End, a small seaside village fifty miles from...

Zigzag Through the Bitter-Orange Trees

Zigzag Through the Bitter-Orange Trees
  • Author(s): Ersi Sotiropoulos
  • Location(s): Greece
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Zigzag through the Bitter Orange Trees was published in Greece in 2000, where it was acclaimed as the best novel of the decade and became the first novel to win both the Greek State Prize for Literature and the...

Zorba’s Parthenon: A Taverna by the Sea

Zorba’s Parthenon: A Taverna by the Sea
  • Author(s): Peter Barber
  • Location(s): Greece
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Fiction
  • Era(s): modern day

Part memoir, part comic fiction, Zorba’s Parthenon is a sunlit story of food, friendship, and the joyful unruliness of Greek island life In the sleepy fishing village of Telios, the wine flows freely, the gossip flows faster, and there’s...

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