Books for Greek holiday?

[DailyFailAreTwats]

Hi - heading to Greece (Corfu and Paxos) in a couple of weeks and planning to do a lot of reading. Does anyone have and recommendations of appropriate books?

[MeanTangerine]

Obvious choice is Captain Corelli's Mandolin.

[concretesieve]

If you haven't read it, My Family and Other Animals. Classic and set in Corfu.

[DailyFailAreTwats]

Thanks! Read those already. Lived My Family - old favourite. Have to say I didn't like Capt Corelli though - I found the ending very trite!

[cubscout]

Victoria Hislop had written some good books set in Greece- The Island about a leper colony (better than it sounds!) and another called The Thread I think about a refugee seamstress.

[DancelikeEmmaGoldman]

Mary Stewart's This Rough Magic is set in Corfu. A number of her books are set in Greece - My Brother Michael and The Moonspinners are the titles I remember.

[tripfiction]

Ok, so you have had some top titles so far.... try these:

One of my faves from last year was Beautiful Animals by Lawrence Osborne, set on Hydra

My Map of You by Isabelle Broome, Zakynthos... she is always good a light books that are strong on setting

We just read Aphrodite's Tears by Hannah Fielding as part of the #TFBookClub - the setting is wonderfully evoked but there's a lot of unrequited passion in it that gets a bit tedious ...

And if nothing grabs you, have a look at this link where I have collated books set in Greece www.tripfiction.com/find-a-book/?location=Greece&btitle=&bauthor=&genre=Genre...

[buttybuttybutthole]

Oh definitely the island by Victoria hislop 😍

[2002Birthday]

Loved The Island. Just read My Big Greek Summer.

[TheTeaFairy]

The Magus by John Fowles.

Once read, forever smitten.

[boldlygoingsomewhere]

Circe by Madeline Miller is a great read. Certainly wished I was reading it on a Greek island.

[PepeLePew]

Was going to suggest Madeleine Miller - I read The song of Achilles in Greece last year. What about Mythos by Stephen Fry? I loved that and was inspired to read more widely around Greek myths as a result.

[DailyFailAreTwats]

Fab recommendations- thank you!!

[AliceLutherNeeMorgan]

The Odyssey!

Or I would also recommend the Stephen Fry book

[Yiayoula]

Eleni , by Nicholas Gage : and also the sequel , A Place for Us.
Not ‘ light holiday reading ‘ but highly recommended.

[Hassled]

The Magus by John Fowles. A lot of the action is on a Greek island. It's an amazing book in a worrying, sinister sort of way.

[Hassled]

TeaFairy is there ahead of me :o. Nice to meet a fellow fan.

[IAmMatty]

Birds without wings- Louis de Bernieres

[TheTeaFairy]

Hassled

[midsomermurderess]

The two Faces of January by Patricia Highsmith, set mostly in Athens and Crete. And if Ancient Greece interests you, have a lookat some of Mary Renault's books, eg the King Must Die.

[IndigoApple]

Have you gone yet? I'm so jealous you're going to Paxos. Went a few years ago and it was lovely.

No Greek reading recommendations but the book I read while there was The Versions of US by Laura Barnett which I enjoyed and will be forever linked with Paxos for me!

[aroomwithaperfectview]

I second Victoria Hislop. Can't remember the title of the book but really enjoyable reading.

[BringMeTea]

Third The Magus. What a book.

[BringMeTea]

Oh, OP is probably already there... wonder what she's reading...

[everycowandagain]

Some great suggestions. I love to read books set in wherever I am on holiday. Unfortunately we have recently been mostly to centerparcs, which is bad for both my love of fiction and my love of travel!