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Killer of Men

Killer of Men
  • Author(s): Christian Cameron
  • Location(s): Athens
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 500BC - 450BC

Arimnestos is a farm boy when war breaks out between the citizens of his native Plataea and their overbearing neighbours, Thebes. Standing in the battle line for the first time, alongside his father and brother, he shares in a...

Known unto God

Known unto God
  • Author(s): Bob Bibby
  • Location(s): Crete
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): WW2 and Modern

In 1940 in war-ravaged Birmingham, Meredith Wilson, driving an ARP ambulance, comes to rescue survivors of a bombed war munitions factory. There she meets two brothers, Bert and Bill Ennis, in Reserved Occupations running the factory, and falls in...

Matti and Max: Adventures on Crete

Matti and Max: Adventures on Crete
  • Author(s): Sandra Lehmann
  • Location(s): Matala
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): Modern looking back

Matti and Max find a mysterious map while exploring the caves of Matala on Crete. The two friends can’t believe their luck. Could there be a hidden treasure? The clues take the boys on an adventurous journey to the...

Mermaid Singing

Mermaid Singing
  • Author(s): Charmian Clift
  • Location(s): Kalymnos
  • Genre(s): Travelogue, Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Early 1950s

In 1951 the Australian writers Charmian Clift and George Johnston left grey, post-war London for Greece. Settling first on the tiny island of Kalymnos, then Hydra, their plan was to live simply and focus on their writing, away from...

Mistaken Identity

Mistaken Identity
  • Author(s): Alyssa J Montgomery
  • Location(s): Greece, London
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance

An irresistibly indulgent novel about identical twins, an autocratic tycoon, and the sensual, sophisticated Greek seaside. Greek tycoon Alex Kristidis will do anything it takes to prevent his brother marrying pop star Susie Hamlin, and Susie’s twin sister Leah...

My Corfu Love Story

My Corfu Love Story
  • Author(s): Effrosyni Moschoudi
  • Location(s): Moraitika
  • Genre(s): Novella, Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Spyri forever lives in the past, haunted by old memories. This summer, she meets a man she once loved, and he is about to change everything… Spyri, a half-Greek restauranteur in her early thirties, is back on the island...

My Mamma Mia Summer

My Mamma Mia Summer
  • Author(s): Annie Robertson
  • Location(s): Skopelos
  • Genre(s): Romance, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

One summer… One dream… One chance to make it happen. Laurel hasn’t taken a risk her whole life. Now as summer dawns, she’s going to do something that nobody expects of her. Laurel turns to her ABBA albums and...

North of Ithaka

North of Ithaka
  • Author(s): Eleni Gage
  • Location(s): Greece, Lia
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Modern and Various

Eleni Gage, a young journalist living in New York, leaves her Manhattan flat to return to the remote but beautiful Greek village of Lia in northern Greece and rebuild her ruined ancestral home. But this is not just another...

One of Our Ministers Is Missing

One of Our Ministers Is Missing
  • Author(s): Alan Johnson
  • Location(s): Crete, North London
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Another fast-paced and warm-hearted thriller from award-winning writer, and former MP, Alan Johnson. A government minister in the Foreign Office has vanished into thin air. On holiday in Crete, Lord Bellingham had been solo trekking in the White Mountains...

Pascali’s Island

Pascali’s Island
  • Author(s): Barry Unsworth
  • Location(s): Greece
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 20th Century

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