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Black Butterflies #2

Black Butterflies #2
  • Author(s): Sara Alexi
  • Location(s): Greece
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Marina is a gentle soul who makes a modest living in her corner shop in a tiny Greek village. Her husband died years ago, and her children have grown up. She is surrounded by people she grew up with...

Cambridge

Cambridge
  • Author(s): Susanna Kaysen
  • Location(s): Athens, Cambridge (Massachusetts), Florence, London
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Fiction
  • Era(s): Mid 20th Century

So begins this novel-from-life by the best-selling author of Girl, Interrupted, an exploration of memory and nostalgia set in the 1950s among the academics and artists of Cambridge, Massachusetts. London, Florence, Athens: Susanna, the precocious narrator of Cambridge, would rather be home than...

Circe

Circe
  • Author(s): Madeline Miller
  • Location(s): Greece
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 700s BC

Chosen as must-read book of 2018 by the Guardian, i, Mail on Sunday, Sunday Express and Stylist In the house of Helios, god of the sun and mightiest of the Titans, a daughter is born. But Circe has neither...

Digging at the Crossroads of Time

Digging at the Crossroads of Time
  • Author(s): Christos Morris
  • Location(s): Crete
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern looking back to 1600s BC

While exhuming human remains within a collapsed Minoan temple, a respected archaeologist senses a need to look beyond the bones and shards of his discovery. When he digs deeper into the mysteries of the mountain, there are unexpected consequences...

Eleni

Eleni
  • Author(s): Nicholas Gage
  • Location(s): Greece
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Mid 20th Century onwards

A son’s quest to avenge his mother’s murder. In 1948, in a Greek mountain village, Eleni Gatzoyiannis was arrested, tortured and shot. She was one of the 158,000 victims of the Greek Civil War. Her crime had been to...

Falling in Honey

Falling in Honey
  • Author(s): Jennifer Barclay
  • Location(s): Tilos
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

I came here looking for some kind of happiness. I think it might be the cleverest thing I have ever done. One heartbroken winter, Jennifer decides to act on her dream of moving to a tiny Greek island –...

Greek Island Escape

Greek Island Escape
  • Author(s): Patricia Wilson
  • Location(s): Crete, Athens
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern looking back

‘I am Sofia. I am searching for my daughter, born 1st November 1972. Can you help me?’ On the beautiful beaches of Crete, an old woman is handing out scraps of paper. Sofia, eighty-five years old, unable to speak,...

Greek Myths

Greek Myths
  • Author(s): Jean Menzies, Katie Ponder (illustrator)
  • Location(s): Greece, The Mediterranean
  • Genre(s): Children, Young Adult
  • Era(s): Various

This collection contains more than 30 enthralling new retellings of favourite myths as well as some you might not have heard before! Including Theseus and the Minotaur, The Twelve Labours of Herakles, and the escapades of Jason and the...

Hibiscus Fruit

Hibiscus Fruit
  • Author(s): Alison Gray
  • Location(s): Skiathos
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

On leave from her job in Newcastle upon Tyne, following the death of her lover, DS Abby Foulkes is on Skiathos with their young son, Johnny. But just as they begin to relax, Johnny finds human bones in a...

Honestly, We Meant Well

Honestly, We Meant Well
  • Author(s): Grant Ginder
  • Location(s): Greece
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

An irresistible, deftly observed novel about family, regret, and vacation by the author of The People We Hate at the Wedding The Wright family is in ruins. Sue Ellen Wright has what she thinks is a close-to-perfect life. A...

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