Search Results: Greek Islands - Fiction from KALAMOS BOOKS

New York: Dodd Mead & Co., 1946 Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st.US Ed... Novel about events on an Aegean island during World War II. [Originally published in the UK as "Myrmyda : A Novel of the Aegean" Methuen 1946].

London: Vintage, 1999 Book. Very Good. Pbk.. Reprint. ".chonicles the lives of the people of Cephallonia as they contend with the Axis invasion and occupation, and the unexpected acts of God and man that shape their lives during the five decades that follow" This reprint issued for the release of the motion picture starring Nicholas Cage and Penelope Cruz. Cover with still photo from the movie..

London: Vintage, 1998 Book. Fine. Trade Paperback. Reprint. ".chonicles the lives of the people of Cephallonia as they contend with the Axis invasion and occupation, and the unexpected acts of God and man that shape their lives during the five decades that follow" This reprint issued for the release of the motion picture starring Nicholas Cage and Penelope Cruz. Cover with still photo from the movie..

New York: William Morrow., 1961 Book. Fine. Hardcover. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Novel by well known Australian author, set among the ex-patriot community on a Greek Island.(fictional Kalymnos) 273p..

New York: Pocket Books, 1975 Book. Very Good. Pbk. Reprint. Mayhem and mystery on a fictional Greek island (? Rhodes?) "She had come to Greece in search of a job- and in search, too, of a way to forget a dead lover.Within hours she found herself witnessing the murder of her beautiful cousin, being hi-jacked by Arab guerrillas and finally arriving at the mountaintop fortress castle that was the home of a powerful multimillionaire, who hired her to teach the children of his wealthy and influential . On the brooding, mountainous Greek island of Dendros .there is no excape from a steadily mounting nightmare of terror and death." Clean, neat copy, tiny chip at foof of spine.

London: Michael Joseph, 1962 Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st.UK Ed.. The setting of this novel is a small Greek island, at the height of the summer. An Englishman travelling alone makes the aquaintance of a girl, Ruth Forbes, and her older travelling companion, Mrs. Keller. It soon strikes him that the relationship between the two women is not merely an uncomfortable one..

New York: Franklin Watts, 1986 Book. As New. Hardcover. First Edition.. A reluctant visit to Greece, where her husband wishes to adopt a young boy, leads to mystery and mayhem on thre island of Lesbos. 386p. .

New York: E.P.Dutton, 1962 Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st US Edition. "During the early part of June, 1947, a small party of sightseers found itself trapped in what was then the newly-discovered labyrinth of Cefalu, in the island of Crete." Originally published under the title "Cefalu" London,1947 then in an Ace paperback in 1958 this is therefore the first US trade edition. 266p.Name of owner.Edges of DJ slightly scuffed, now in protective sleeve.

London: Hodder & Stoughton, 2002 Book. As New. Trade Paperback. Reprint. The idyllic Greek island of Trigono harbours many secrets. Its labyrinth of caves contains priceless ancient figurines. The caves gave sanctuary to tragic lovers during the Second World War. Now they are the backdrop to acts of chilling depravity."When Alex Mavros is asked to track down a missing woman, he jumps at the chance to leave the heat of Athens. Travelling to Trigono, he soon realises that there is more than one mystery to be solved. How did the couple drown in the fishing nets? And whose bones does Maro keep beneath her bed?".

London: Eyre Methuen., 1972 Ex-Library. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st UK Edition.. Neat, tight copy, one library stamp, else near fine.

London: Fontana, 1979 Book. Very Good. Mass Market Paperback. Rousing adventure in 1944 on a Greek island where the occupying Nazis are faced by a motley crew of heroes - novel of the movie (Based on a story by Richard S.Lochte and George P.Cosmatos, screenplay by Edward Anhalt and Richard S.Hocte.) Pbk.252p. Condition : Good..

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1977 Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st.US Ed... " A luminous and revealing novel of love and the loss of love. Lola, an American woman has returned to an island in Greece where she and her lover once '.

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1991 Book. New. Hardcover. Complex novel of intrigue and betrayal with scenes set in Rhodes. "In a suspenseful, classy narrative that affords first-rate entertainment, a young English schoolteacher, Heather Mallender, vanishes on the Greek island of Rhodes. With her at the time was Harry Barnett, who at age 53 feels h is life to have been a succession of small failures. To clear his name, Harry must locate her. But was she kidnapped or murdered, or did she disappear of her own volition? Heather had been seeing a psychiatrist, disconsolate over the death of her sister, the victim of an IRA bomb. As Harry shuttles between England and Rhodes, teasing out the tangled strands of Heather"s fate, he stumbles into a web of betrayal, treachery, love, blackmail and murder. The solution is tied to his close friend and to a pivotal incident in his own childhood. Despite a plot of almost too labyrinthine complexity, this civilized romantic thriller delivers. ".

London: Penguin, 1985 Book. Fine. Pbk. 1st.UK Ed... Mystery and adventure on the imaginary Greek island of Simnos. The story has many permutations as the reader chooses which clue to follow to resolve the mystery. Pbk. 350p. illus. Condition : Good.

New York: W.W.Norton, 1963 Book. Illus. by Illustrated by James J.Spanfeller. Fine. Hardcover. 1st US Edition. "For Joanna the month's holiday was to be an escape, a chance to paint and think and release the bitter memories of the war in Greece and of her mother's death. She had chosen the dazzling island of Santorini, remote and inaccessible as her own heart.The holiday was to be a solitary experience.But that was before Joanna met Ulysses,the mistreated little donkey." A charming story, with delightful illustrations.126p..

New York: Carroll & Graf, 1997 Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st.US Ed... "Simon.is invited to the Greek Isle of Skagathos to teach overly enthusiastic would-be writers who have as much chance of actually publishing a book as Simon has of winning a Booker Prize. The summer colony, of which the writers are a part, has taken the tenets of the New Age to heart, whether in pursuit of the ever-elusive orgasm or of finding the magic key that will unlock their inner creativity. And Simon, as polite as he is randy, cannot quite bring himself to explain to his students that there is no neccessary connection between the price of one's computer and the quality of one's writing" Something of a send-up of the writer's school on Skyros..

New York: Carroll & Graf, 1997 Book. Fine. Soft cover. First Pbk.Ed... "Simon is invited to the Greek Isle of Skagathos to teach overly enthusiastic would-be writers who have as much chance of actually publishing a book as Simon has of winning a Booker Prize. The summer colony, of which the writers are a part, has taken the tenets of the New Age to heart, whether in pursuit of the ever-elusive orgasm or of finding the magic key that will unlock their inner creativity. And Simon, as polite as he is randy, cannot quite bring himself to explain to his students that there is no necessary connection between the price of one's computer and the quality of one's writing" Something of a send-up of the writer's school on Skyros.189p. Neat crisp copy but for remainder mark .

New York: Doubleday & Co, 1977 Book. Very Good +. Hardcover. 1st.US Edition.. Mystery culminating on a fictional Greek island (? Rhodes?) where the heroine finds suspense, romance and some surprising things about her own family..

New York: A.A.Knopf, 1971 Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st US Edition. Adventure and anthropology in the seach for prehistoric man on the Ionian island of Levkas. 332p. maps on endpapers..

London: Collins, 1971 Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st UK Edition.. Adventure and anthropology in the search for prehistoric man on the Ionian island of Levkas.317p. maps on end papers..