Panos Karzenis takes you to a very strange world in Little Infamies.
It is that of an obscure Greek village where you are introduced to the idiosyncratic inhabitants-the barber, the priest, the prostitute, the doctor, the mayor and the seamstress, you are given insights into the lives of a series of strong characters, and drawn ever deeper into a novel yet very strange society. 
Panos Karnezis is like a magician who distracts with his left hand while performing sleight-of-hand with his right. In fact, the village here is a magical place: other inhabitants include the occasional animal: a parrot that can recite Homer, a horse called History-even a centaur. All these strange lives cross over, and in such a cloistered village, few secrets are kept hidden for long. Everybody learns about the eponymous little infamies that the human race commits.

Blue Skies and Black Olives - by John and Christopher Humphreys

This is a light and most entertainingly written book by BBC reporter John Humphreys and his son Christopher, in which they recount their experience building a house in the Peleponnese on a beautiful site overlooking the Aegean. Christopher is a professional musician, playing the cello in an Athens orchestra and married to a Greek girl. John had decided to invest in Greek property, having been captivated by Greek life and scenery and encouraged by his son.
The project is fraught with difficulties - both in terms of the bureaucracy involved and also the strange unreliability of some of those they employ to do the building work. those factors, couple with the fact that John is apparantly not known for his patience, provoke some very amusing stories. For those who, like me, struggle to master the complexities of the Greek language, the chapter on this subject is particularly funny - John comments that when he hears Greek males conversing it sounds to him as if they are about to kill each other.
Personally I was encouraged to read that 'Greek is a hard language. That is official. The Foreign Office leangue table of languages......rates Greek harder than any average European language, and not far off the real monsters such as Mandarin and Finnish'.
An entertaining read - Tony Smith

The Island by Victoria Hislop.
On the brink of a life-changing decision, Alexis longs to find out about her mother’s past - all she admits to is growing up in a small Cretan village before moving to London.
Arriving in Plaka, Alexis is astonished to see that it lies a stone’s throw from the tiny, deserted island of Spinalonga – Greece’s former leper colony. She finds Fotini, and at last hears the story that her mother has buried all her life: the tale of her great-grandmother Eleni and her daughters and a family rent by tragedy, war and passion. She discovers how intimately she is connected with the island, and how secrecy holds them all in its powerful grip...