Link for UK readers to all Suzi's books
Suzi Stembridge B.A. Hons (OPEN) M.C.I.J
traveller, tour operator and now author of historical and contemporary novels, plus a children's book (and a memoir, coming soon).

This website comes to you with over fifty years of travelling throughout Greece and the islands, and throughout Britain and Europe, which has given Suzi a very keen sense of our culture, particularly of Greece, its people, its heritage and its heritage.



Many of Suzi's books have scenes set in other areas of Europe, particularly London, northern England & Wales, and Suzi is shown here at Buttertubs Passs in the North Yorkshire Dales.

Our Experience

After education at Penrhos College, Colwyn Bay, and Huddersfield Technical College, Suzi worked as a Secretary with Lord Hanson's Travel Agency and as an airhostess with Tradair flying from Southend Aiport throughout the Mediterranean.

It was the beginning of a lifetime of travelling throughout the Mediterranean and eventually most areas of Greece and its unusual islands.


Married with two children,  Suzi took an Open University degree, graduating in 1983 with a BA Hons degree.

Suzi also endorsed her love of travel writing and writing the brochure and arranging press trips for a small travel agency specialising in the Dodecanese, working for another who promoted areas throughout Greece and finally establishing her own travel agency: GRECO-FILE LTD.
  • With her experience developing Greco-file,  supported by the travel industry and travel press, Suzi was encouraged to launch FILOXENIA LTD, specialising in tailor made holidays to unusual areas of Greece. The business grew, helped by her husband, Simon, who left the Yorkshire Post to join Suzi, her son, Oliver and loyal staff. When unexpectedly Filoxenia was sold in 2004 Suzi retired,  to fulfil her dream to write fiction and faction. As well as exciting novels set in Greece, many of the adventures and romance are set in Northern England, North Wales and London, and other areas of Europe.
The eight novels are set in a time frame of 200 years 1815-2011, published as two quartets:
GREEK LETTERS QUARTET & THE COMING OF AGE
which can be read as one family saga (or could be read independently.) As well as touching on historical events and diverse subjects such as climate change (even in Manchester, and in Greece, in the 1850s there were those who worried about pollution), LGBT, crisis of identity, childbirth outside marriage, technological break-through, the books reveal a way of life even up to as recently as 2010 which was much slower and possibly more manageable.
The author believes these historical novels reflect a period which will come to be known as ‘an age’, perhaps neatly categorised as a Victorian and Elizabethan age, but that we are embarking on a new age when the fashions and mores of the 19th and 20th century, familiar to us today, will seem quaintly curious, even charmed, to the millennials and their successors. The pace of change is accelerating faster than ever before and climate change almost certainly will bring further transformations.

Use this map to find areas of Greece, simply enter the place you are looking for after pressing arrow:

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