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- Location(s): Athens, Crete, Europe
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1960s
Two men meet in the picturesque backstreets of Athens. Chester MacFarlane is a conman with multiple false identities, near the end of his rope and on the run with his young wife Colette. Rydal Keener is a young drifter...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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,...
- 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...
- Location(s): Athens, London
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 5th Century BC, Mid 17th Century
A novel of two smart women with the sculptures of the Parthenon as the central theme. Mary Elgin, who is the wife of Lord Elgin who brought the marbles (which now reside in the British Museum): Aspasia,who was the...
- Location(s): Athens, Greece
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1940s forward
When Maud learns that her husband has been killed in a car accident, she is left bereft and bewildered. She has no idea why he was driving on a lonely coastal road outside Athens in the middle of the...
- Location(s): Athens
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): 2000s
One hot Summer’s day in Athens, a restauranteur is killed and Haritos is charged with finding his killer.
- Location(s): Athens, Crete, Spinalonga
- Genre(s): Romance
- Era(s): Modern
Selena Harper always thought she had the perfect job: working on a luxury cruiseship, she’s whisked around the world from Alaska to Zanzibar with excitement and adventure awaiting her in every port. But as she prepares for her latest...
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