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- Location(s): Crete
- Genre(s): RomCom
- Era(s): Current
Since Gabrielle Lowe impetuously purchased a run-down Kafenion in the little-known Greek town of Koustafali, her life has changed from a directionless mess to a life with purpose. After a series of teething problems, Gabby has finally begun to...
- Location(s): Crete
- Genre(s): Mystery
- Era(s): Ancient past to present
Set on the island of Crete, this multi-layered novel is of landscapes and lives shaped by an ancient ethos. When Michael, a Greek-American, visits his father’s village, he comes to believe that his grandmother, the proud Efpraxsia, has poisoned...
- Location(s): Crete
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
A gloriously sunny book of family secrets, lost loves and self-discovery, One Summer in Crete by Nadia Marks is an engrossing holiday read. ‘If you don’t think you’re about to get to Crete this is the next best thing...
- Location(s): Crete, Greece
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1823 to 1830
In January 1823, four mourners stand over the shrouded body of the exceptional female rebel, Rodanthe. Each suffers the loss of a daughter, friend, lost love or valued ally. Her injured papa, Mathaios, kneels at her graveside, begging forgiveness...
- Location(s): Rhodes, Crete, Greece
- Genre(s): Historical, Adventure, Fiction
- Era(s): World War II
A historical adventure chronicling the exploits of the Special Boat Squadron, the seaborne raiders who, by strength and guile, carried out World War Two’s most daring covert operations. From this moment on, you and your men, you don’t exist....
- Location(s): Crete
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): WW2
George Psychoundakis was a young shepherd boy who knew the island of Crete intimately when the Nazis invaded by air in 1941. He immediately joined the resistance and took on the crucial job of war-time runner. It was not...
- Location(s): Crete
- Genre(s): Mystery
- Era(s): Modern / 20 years ago
In rural Wiltshire, England, a six month-old baby disappears from a stroller while its mother is inside a store for just two minutes. A young Englishman begins a summer of adventure on the Greek island of Crete. By pure...
The Daughter of The Merchant of Venice
- Location(s): Crete, Istanbul (Constantinople), Venice
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): 16th Century
The Daughter of the Merchant of Venice is an intriguing love story that follows the romance between an apprentice artist named Stefano D’Alvino and Giustina Boschetti, the daughter of a Venetian merchant. Theirs is a story of love, betrayal, forgiveness,...
- Location(s): Crete
- Genre(s): Historical, Romance
- Era(s): 1936 / WW2
Under the Cretan sun, in the summer of 1936, two young people fall in love… Eleni has been coming to Crete her entire life, swapping her English home for cherished sun-baked summers with her grandfather, in the shoreside villa...
- Location(s): Crete
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): WW2 and 21st Centruy
May 1941 and the island of Crete is invaded by paratroopers from the air. After a lengthy fight, thousands of British and Commonwealth soldiers are forced to take to the hills or become escaping PoWs, sheltered by the Cretan...
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