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The Things We Learn When We’re Dead

The Things We Learn When We’re Dead
  • Author(s): Charlie Laidlaw
  • 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...

The Threshing Circle

The Threshing Circle
  • Author(s): Neil Grimmett
  • 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

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...

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