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- Location(s): Crete
- Genre(s): Travelogue
- Era(s): 20th century
For Somerville this was a kind of pilgrimage, a journey unlike any he had undertaken in 20 years of travel-writing. It was an expedition where he traded the usual comforts and certainties for a real physical and mental challenge,...
- Location(s): Greece, Crete
- Genre(s): Historical
- Era(s): Ancient Greece
Theseus is the grandson of the King of Troizen, but his paternity is shrouded in mystery – can he really be the son of the god Poseidon? When he discovers his father’s sword beneath a rock, his mother must...
- Location(s): Australia, Crete
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): WW1
This moving novel of fate and love stretches from the mountains of Crete to the dreams of post-war Australia, is inspired by historical events, and of the Australian soldiers who took part in the Battle of Crete during World...
- Location(s): Crete
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1960s
While on a walking holiday through the beautiful, deserted hills of Crete, Nicola Ferris stumbles across a critically injured Englishman, guarded by a fierce Greek. Nicola cannot abandon them and so sets off on a perilous search for their...
- 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 Taverna at the Edge of Night
- Location(s): Crete
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
Sometimes the most beautiful locations hide the deadliest betrayal. When Daphne travels to a remote fishing village on the Greek island of Crete, she’s looking forward to sun-drenched days, dazzling sea views, and a happy reunion with her best...
The Things We Learn When We’re Dead
- Location(s): Edinburgh, Crete, East Lothian
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
The Things We Learn When We’re Dead is a modern fairytale of love and loss. It’s about the subtle ways in which we change, and how the small decisions that we make can have profound and unintended consequences. On...
- Location(s): Crete
- Genre(s): Mystery
- Era(s): Various
A young couple arrive on the Greek island of Crete and begin prying into the execution of a beautiful English woman during the German occupation sixty years before. They enter a labyrinth of forbidden love, betrayals, murder, greed and...
The Unwanted Dead: The Shocking End of Zorba’s Heretical Author
- 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
- 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...
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