Jane Bow - Author, Adventurist, Novelist, Storyteller

Homeless, a novel

A woman is caught
breaking into a
Century stone house

She won’t tell anyone her name, not police, not social workers, not even the judge, who sends her to a forensic psychology ward full of dangerously unbalanced criminals ...

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Cally's Way, a novel

Love, World War II,
and A Future
She Could Not Imagine

Events demolish Cally’s fragile equilibrium, setting her on a new, uncharted path into Crete’s history, stripping her of even her clothes before leading to deep love, a horrific family discovery, and a future she could not have imagined.

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The Oak Island Affair, a novel

where there is no turning back . . .

Vanessa's discovery of a 400-year-old diary written by a Spanish Dominican monk plunges her into an underworld of treasure, intrigue and obsession, where rules of the surface world do not apply.

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Dead and Living, a novel

Memory, Passion, Duty,
And
A Dance between Truth And Justice

... based on the true story of a man who did not know, for 25 years, whether he was a murderer.

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A literary adventurer

Jane Bow

The daughter of diplomats, I grew up in Canada, in the United States during the McCarthy era, in Generalissimo Franco’s fascist Spain, in England and in Communist Czechoslovakia.

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“When I am not writing at home on the edge of a Canadian forest, or in a mountainside village in Crete, or in a Prague cafe, I am exploring history’s awesome powers of love and destruction.” – Jane Bow

COURAGE • WORLD WAR II • DEEP LOVE

Jane Bow’s new novel, Cally’s Way - released Spring 2014

Kirkus Review

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A skillfully written novel, romantic yet tough-minded, in a beautiful setting...

Rethymnon Bugle

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This book is highly recommended...

Hilary Boyd, bestselling U.K. author

A beautifully written tale...

Robert Begiebing, award-winning U.S. author

Cally’s Way resonates deeply... with surprising connections among the violent and tragic occupations of the Second World War...

Jane Bow

A literary adventurer

The daughter of diplomats, I grew up in Canada, in the United States during the McCarthy era, in Generalissimo Franco’s fascist Spain, in England and in Communist Czechoslovakia.

Current Blog Posts

The Angel's Share: A Cretan Grape Harvest

As winter Covid cases surge, why not escape with me to a grape harvest in sunny Crete, home to Zeus, […]

Homeless

by Jane Bow Shortlisted for its Ken Klonsky novella award, Homeless was published by Quattro Books in 2018. Now an ebook, free during the […]

Giannou, Crete, Greece

Greek Gifts

Greek gifts have enriched the world for several thousand years, most recently last week. Greece’s myths show us how different […]

Coloured Moser crystal glasses wildlife etchings Prague Czech Republic

Prague Diary (2) - Creative Beauty & the Beast

Beauty This Prague diary is about my trip to research my new historical novel. I am looking for the Communism […]