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To the Lake

To the Lake
  • Author(s): Kapka Kassabova
  • Location(s): Albania, Greece, Macedonia
  • Genre(s): Travelogue
  • Era(s): Present looking back

Lake Ohrid and Lake Prespa. Two vast lakes joined by underground rivers. Two lakes that seem to hold both the turbulent memories of the region’s past, and the secret of its enduring allure. Two lakes that have played a...

Heavenly’s Child

Heavenly’s Child
  • Author(s): Brenda Reid
  • Location(s): Athens, Crete
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Late 1960s, earlyu 1970s

It is the late 1960s and after her strict English boarding school, Angel is delighted to be back on Crete, the island she loves. She and her friend Chrissi are planning to spend the long summer days as they’ve...

My Family and Other Animals

My Family and Other Animals
  • Author(s): Gerald Durrell
  • Location(s): Corfu
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): 1930s

Sometimes it’s pretty hard to tell them apart… my family and the animals, that is. I don’t know why my brothers and sisters complain so much. With snakes in the bath and scorpions on the lunch table, our house,...

The Illegal Gardener #1

The Illegal Gardener #1
  • Author(s): Sara Alexi
  • Location(s): Greece
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Driven by a need for some control in her life, Juliet sells up on impulse and buys a dilapidated farmhouse in a tiny Greek village, leaving her English life behind. The house is livable by local standards, but the...

Vanishing Tales from Ancient Trails

Vanishing Tales from Ancient Trails
  • Author(s): James Dorsey
  • Location(s): Greece, South East Asia, West Africa
  • Genre(s): Travelogue
  • Era(s): Modern

Adventure traveler James Dorsey takes readers around the world to not only explore ancient trails, but to help immerse readers in the old traditions of lands that seem to be disappearing in the modern world. This book of short...

Wish You Were Here

Wish You Were Here
  • Author(s): Victoria Connelly
  • Location(s): Greece
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

Sun, sea and secrets… A week on the sunny Greek island of Kethos is just what Alice Archer needs, even if she has to put up with her difficult sister. Stella’s tantrums and diva-like demands are a fair price...

Aegean Dream

Aegean Dream
  • Author(s): Dario Ciriello
  • Location(s): Skopelos
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Mid 2000s

A TRUE STORY SET ON GREECE’S ‘MAMMA MIA! ISLAND OF SKOPELOS In November 2006, Linda and Dario gamble everything on their dream-a new life on the tiny Greek island of Skópelos. They’ve studied Greek, done their research, and have...

Aegean Sun: Room 101

Aegean Sun: Room 101
  • Author(s): Stephanie Wood
  • Location(s): Kos
  • Genre(s): Nonfiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

This fast paced contemporary story takes place at the Aegean Sun Hotel in Greece over the summer season. Focusing on the various visitors who stay in room 101 on a weekly basis, it interweaves with the stories of the...

An Island in Greece

An Island in Greece
  • Author(s): Michael Carroll
  • Location(s): Skopelos
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Modern

Scattered in a crescent in the sparkling waters of the Aegean, the islands of the Sporades are known to Greek fishermen as ‘the gates of the wind’. It was to this unspoilt archipelago that Michael Carroll sailed Astarte, a...

Apartment in Athens

Apartment in Athens
  • Author(s): Glenway Westcott
  • Location(s): Athens
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Mid 20th Century onwards

This is the story of a Greek couple in Nazi-occupied Athens who must share their living quarters with a German officer. Wescott stages an intense and unsettling drama of accommodation and rejection, resistance and compulsion-an account of political oppression...

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