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Books for Greek holiday?

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DailyFailAreTwats · 29/05/2018 16:31

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?

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everycowandagain · 16/06/2018 22:35

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!

BringMeTea · 16/06/2018 16:58

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

BringMeTea · 16/06/2018 16:57

Third The Magus. What a book.

aroomwithaperfectview · 15/06/2018 21:26

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

IndigoApple · 15/06/2018 21:18

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!

midsomermurderess · 01/06/2018 16:21

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.

TheTeaFairy · 01/06/2018 10:32

Smile Hassled

IAmMatty · 31/05/2018 20:55

Birds without wings- Louis de Bernieres

Hassled · 31/05/2018 20:47

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

Hassled · 31/05/2018 20:46

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.

Yiayoula · 31/05/2018 20:42

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

AliceLutherNeeMorgan · 31/05/2018 20:34

The Odyssey!

Or I would also recommend the Stephen Fry book

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DailyFailAreTwats · 31/05/2018 20:29

Fab recommendations- thank you!!

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PepeLePew · 31/05/2018 09:53

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.

boldlygoingsomewhere · 30/05/2018 19:59

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

TheTeaFairy · 30/05/2018 19:57

The Magus by John Fowles.

Once read, forever smitten. Smile

2002Birthday · 30/05/2018 19:55

Loved The Island. Just read My Big Greek Summer.

buttybuttybutthole · 30/05/2018 18:09

Oh definitely the island by Victoria hislop 😍

tripfiction · 30/05/2018 17:19

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...

DancelikeEmmaGoldman · 29/05/2018 22:06

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.

cubscout · 29/05/2018 20:38

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.

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DailyFailAreTwats · 29/05/2018 17:29

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!

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concretesieve · 29/05/2018 16:39

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

MeanTangerine · 29/05/2018 16:33

Obvious choice is Captain Corelli's Mandolin.

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