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  • The House at the Edge of Night by Catherine Banner
    |genre=General Fiction ...h love, loss and reconciliation in this epic family saga set on a Sicilian island.
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  • Time Swimmer (Island Fiction) by Gerald Hausman
    |title= Time Swimmer (Island Fiction) This is a very strange book. It's part of a series called Island Fiction, each of which explores different elements of Caribbean mythology and folkl
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  • Napoleon's Last Island by Thomas Keneally
    |title=Napoleon's Last Island |genre=Literary Fiction
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  • The Forsaken by Lisa Stasse
    ...saken''. It is by no margin a classic, but if you're a fan of this type of fiction and are looking for a good, captivating read. ''The Forsaken'' will suit al ...ed island with other potential criminals. However, she soon finds that the island isn't all that she had been led to believe.
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  • Mr Peacock's Possessions by Lydia Syson
    |genre=Historical Fiction ...g tale of dark secrets and unforgiveable crimes against the backdrop of an Island paradise.
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  • The Island of Sheep (John Hannay) by John Buchan
    |title=The Island of Sheep (John Hannay) |sort= Island of Sheep (John Hannay)
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  • Coastliners by Joanne Harris
    |genre=Women's Fiction |summary=After the death of her mother, Mado returns to her island home in the hope of reconciliation with her father. She becomes involved in
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  • The Island by M A Bennett
    |title= The Island |sort= Island
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  • The Legend of the Swan Children (Island Fiction) by Maureen Marks-Mendonca
    |title=The Legend of the Swan Children (Island Fiction) |sort=Legend of the Swan Children (Island Fiction)
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  • The Chalice Project (Island Fiction) by Lisa Allen-Agostini
    |title=The Chalice Project (Island Fiction) |sort=Chalice Project (Island Fiction)
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  • The New World by Andrew Motion
    |genre=Historical Fiction |summary=Poet Andrew Motion continues the story of Treasure Island, as the children of the original characters explore America.
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  • Satin Island by Tom McCarthy
    |title=Satin Island |genre=Literary Fiction
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  • The Island at the End of Everything by Kiran Millwood Hargrave
    |title= The Island at the End of Everything |sort= Island at the End of Everything
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  • The Prisoner of Paradise by Romesh Gunesekera
    |genre=Literary Fiction |summary=Set in 1825 Mauritius, this island paradise is the backdrop to social tension and idealism between two young p
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  • Kiss Heaven Goodbye by Tasmina Perry
    |genre=Women's Fiction A group of students were gathered on a private island in the Bahamas in 1990. They'd just finished their exams – for some it w
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  • Stranded by Emily Barr
    ...decides to make a trip to Malaysia, but a day trip out to a small, remote island finds her stranded there, along with several other people, when their guide ...island I found myself just waiting for the inevitable romance with another island inhabitant. It was only towards the end that the book suddenly turned into
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  • Castle of Water by Dane Huckelbridge
    |genre=General Fiction ...n architect. The one thing they have in common is to survive on the desert island they have both been stranded on. Castle of Water is a charming story that g
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  • Snake Ropes by Jess Richards
    |genre=Literary Fiction ...her unable to explore the island on which she now lives. Elsewhere on the island, Mary has lived there all her life but still has questions: How did her mo
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  • Nation by Terry Pratchett
    ...lagic Ocean, a devastating tidal wave all but wipes out the Nation. On his island, only Mau is left - he had been on his rite of passage to becoming a man, a ...ain. The ship carrying her is wrecked by the wave and she ends up on Mau's island, equally discomfited by events. How does one apply the rules of etiquette i
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  • The Godless Boys by Naomi Wood
    |genre=General Fiction ...errorism have been dealt with by exile. The atheists have been sent to the Island where they can burn churches as they please. Aside from a weekly boat bring
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  • Island of Wings by Karin Altenberg
    |title=Island of Wings |genre=Historical Fiction
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  • Stern Men by Elizabeth Gilbert
    |genre=General Fiction |summary= Ruth returns to her Maine island home, where neighbouring lobster fishermen have fought for generations. I d
    4 KB (625 words) - 12:05, 19 March 2018
  • Desolation Island by Adolfo Garcia Ortega
    |title=Desolation Island |genre=Literary Fiction
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  • The Girls of Summer by Katie Bishop
    |genre=General Fiction |summary=A stunning debut set on a Greek island, sixteen years ago. It's only now and with some reluctance, that Rachel re
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  • The Philosopher Kings by Jo Walton
    |genre=Science Fiction ...rious philosophical figures, and her brother Apollo decides to stay on the island as a human, in order to learn and grow. Various issues occur, lots of thing
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  • The Island at the End of the World by Sam Taylor
    |title=The Island at the End of the World |genre=Literary Fiction
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  • Breaking Light by Karin Altenberg
    |genre=Literary Fiction ...Karin Altenberg|Island of Wings]], Victorian historical fiction set on the island of St Kilda, followed the lives of the newly main-land appointed clergyman
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  • Sweet Salt Air by Barbara Delinsky
    |genre=General Fiction ...ther can't bear to go back to Quinniepeague, so Nicole is returning to the island to clear the house for sale. And she's going to write a cookbook.
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  • Hippy Chick by Louise Harwood
    |genre=Women's Fiction ...ng pretty well. But when her childhood sweetheart, Edouard, returns to the island from his new life as a corporate suit in London, things start to change and
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  • Take Back the Skies by Lucy Saxon
    Catherine Hunter leads a privileged life. She lives on the island of Anglya, where her father is a higher-up in the government. She lives a l ...avel. She dreams of flying in a skyship and of seeing the world beyond her island's borders. So Catherine becomes Cat. She stows away on the skyship Stormdan
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  • The Last Anniversary by Liane Moriarty
    |genre=Women's Fiction ...e is stirring up secrets and stepping on toes as she moves to Scribbly Gum island, but are the public ready for the big reveals?
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  • Coconut Chaos by Diana Souhami
    |genre=Historical Fiction |summary=A marvellously eclectic mix of historic fact, travel, a bit of fiction and the joyous realisation that this is the sort of unusual book that is a
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  • Wall of Days by Alastair Bruce
    |genre=Historical Fiction ...mary=A man is banished from his homeland and ends up, safe and well, on an island. Life is bearable (just) until something/someone sees him yearning for the
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  • The Three Day Rule by Emlyn Rees and Josie Lloyd
    |genre=Women's Fiction ...country, which also just happens to be a short boat ride away from Brayner Island, in Penzance. Elliot wants his Christmas cake-and-eat-it-too!
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  • The Brides of Rollrock Island by Margo Lanagan
    |title=The Brides of Rollrock Island |sort=Brides of Rollrock Island
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  • When The Sky Fell Apart by Caroline Lea
    |genre=General Fiction ...and English Doctor Carter. Each of the four lives on the perimeter of the island's community but each will come to depend on the other three in order to con
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  • Delroy in the Marog Kingdom (Island Fiction) by Billy Elm
    |title= Delroy in the Marog Kingdom (Island Fiction) ...ption, only put me in mind of the [[Escape from Silk Cotton Forest (Island Fiction) by Francis C Escayg|previous book]] I'd encountered in this branded series
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  • Jeff Somers' Avery Cates Series in Chronological Order
    {{amazonurl|isbn=B017WDM2JO|title=The Iron Island}} (short story, 2015) [[Category:Lists]] [[Category:Science Fiction]] [[Category:Jeff Somers]]
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  • City of Screams by John Brindley
    It's been some years since Ash broke free of the compound on ASP Island and established a new society in which rodents could exist cooperatively wi ...ted, it's up to Phoenix and her rodent foster sister, Totally, to save ASP Island.
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  • A Dog Like Lloyd by Jacqueline Sheehan
    |genre=General Fiction ...able to control her grief she fled her job and her home and moved to Peaks Island off the coast of Maine, where she found employment as an Animal Control War
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  • In the Beginning Was the Sea by Tomas Gonzalez
    |genre=General Fiction '''Shortlisted for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize 2015'''
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  • Lifegame by Alison Allen-Gray
    ...a bio-chemical attack on the Downzone, the island's nearest landmass. The Island's citizens are isolated and alone because the attack not only devastated th ...eply intelligent and capable of independent thought. He was stifled on the Island. Grebe, the child of pushy, ambitious parents, is much more in tune with he
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  • The Cousins by Karen M McManus
    |genre= General Fiction ...she cut off her children all those years ago? Are the deaths on Gull Cove Island really what they seem? The dark web of twisted lies, secrets and tragedy th
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  • Without You by Saskia Sarginson
    |genre=General Fiction ...nd in fact, Eva is not dead, but she’s not safe either. Held captive on an island just off the coast, she is so near and yet so far from home, and with every
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  • Dangerous Waters: Mystery, Loss and Love on the Island of Guernsey by Anne Allen
    |title=Dangerous Waters: Mystery, Loss and Love on the Island of Guernsey |genre=Women's Fiction
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  • The Girl of Ink and Stars by Kiran Millwood Hargrave
    ...d engulfed by myth and legend – the inhabitants are forbidden to leave the island or even cross the borders of their village into the Forbidden Territories b ...from a foreign land and closed off Isabella's village from the rest of the island. Naturally this makes our heroine curious as to why these limitations are e
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  • Hearts of Stone by Simon Scarrow
    |genre=Historical Fiction ...breaks out. Where does friendship end and hatred begin in this historical fiction novel that has an interesting look at the idea of history, but also plays o
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  • Coming Home to Island House by Erica James
    |title=Coming Home to Island House |genre=Women's Fiction
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  • Where my Heart Used to Beat by Sebastian Faulks
    |genre=General Fiction In the early 1980’s, on a small island off the South of France, a Doctor named Robert Hendricks confronts his life
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  • Our Sister, Again by Sophie Cameron
    ...ll Scottish island, and because the project is top secret, everyone on the island has been involved in a confidentiality agreement around the robot, and the ...the new Flora arrives. There is a sense of threat, because someone on the island seems unhappy about Flora's presence. This adds a mystery element to the bo
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  • Fragments by Dan Wells
    ...ter where [[Partials by Dan Wells|Partials]] finished - Kira has left Long Island to search for answers. Who is she? Why do the Partials have expiry dates? H ...read. It see the returns of some old favourites - Marcus is still on Long Island, wondering if Kira is ok, helping the government look for a cure and trying
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  • Behold A Fair Woman by Francis Duncan
    |summary= Mordecai Tremaine’s Channel Island murder mystery is a typical amateur detective story of the early post-war y ...'the island of Moulin d'Or seems to be just the destination'' – except the island isn't called that. Moulin d'Or is the district in the north west of the un
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  • The Beach by Alex Garland
    |genre=General Fiction ...d on from traveller to traveller, an Eden paradise completely hidden on an island that no-one but a lucky few can get to. Except that Daffy gives Rich a map.
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  • The Waking World (The Future King) by Tom Huddleston
    ...or nothing. But Aran is not entirely happy. Rumours are everywhere and the Island is under threat. Bands of fierce men known as Marauders are beginning to at [[Category:Dystopian Fiction]]
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  • After The Honeymoon by Janey Fraser
    |genre=Women's Fiction ...ds to) both women and their new husbands end up on the same secluded Greek island at the same time. It’s run by a British woman who left for the continent
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  • Goat Mountain by David Vann
    |genre=Literary Fiction ...king back,'' Legend of a Suicide'', [[Caribou Island by David Vann|Caribou Island]] and [[Dirt by David Vann|Dirt]] seem almost gentle, tame when compared to
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  • Simon Packham Talks To Bookbag About ''Firewallers''
    Like the rest of my young adult fiction, [[Firewallers by Simon Packham|Firewallers]] is set (at least in part) at ...ttentions of the press, Mum drags Jess and her sister to a remote Scottish island where an old family friend is part of a strange eco community. The Dawdlers
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  • Mister Pip by Lloyd Jones
    |genre=Literary Fiction ...utifully written with not a word wasted, Great Expectations meets tropical island in this look at the love of reading, the terrors of war, post-colonialism a
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  • Here's To Us by Elin Hilderbrand
    |genre=Women's Fiction |summary= A super summer read, this is Hilderbrand's signature mix of intense island life and family drama with some delicious food mixed in
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  • Really Weird Removals.Com by Daniela Sacerdoti
    ...ry=Strong characters, unusual creatures and a great location on a Scottish island make this stand out from the crowd of supernatural books out there! ...ith their father about a decade ago. When Alistair returns to the Scottish island of Eilean to try to put things right, their dad doesn't want to have anythi
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  • Space Blasters by Philip Caveney
    ...anderthals, and another one from a Bond-style spy movie. Lovers of science fiction will quickly recognise where they are with this book: a princess to rescue, ...in the series, [[Night on Terror Island by Philip Caveney|Night on Terror Island]] and [[Spy Another Day by Philip Caveney|Spy Another Day]]. Read them once
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  • The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer
    |genre=General Fiction ...ows of any other books by Charles Lamb. There are no bookshops left on the island, you see, since the Germans left. In passing, Dawsey mentions in his letter
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  • The Birthdays by Heidi Pitlor
    |genre=Women's Fiction ...r siblings are all expecting their first children as they converge on Salt Island, Maine for their father's 75th birthday, when a dramatic event shifts the f
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  • The Sunrise by Victoria Hislop
    |genre=General Fiction ...e bloody conflict in the 1970s between Greece and Turkey played out on the island. In an eye-opener of a novel, she treats both sides even-handedly even if,
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  • Guernsey Retreat: The Guernsey Novels Book 3 by Anne Allen
    |genre=Women's Fiction ...'re ''seriously'' easy to read, with some great characters and a brilliant island location which is used to full advantage: you really feel as though you're
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  • Dirt by David Vann
    |genre=Literary Fiction ...in a long time. It was followed by [[Caribou Island by David Vann|Caribou Island]] which has a similarly dark theme.
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  • Illegal by Miriam Halahmy
    Illegal is the second in Miriam Halahmy’s Hayling Island cycle. I haven’t read book 1, Hidden, but it was easy enough to follow th ...he end. I’ll definitely be checking out the other two books in the Hayling Island cycle in the hope that Halamhy’s taut writing style is married with a cen
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  • Our Young Man by Edmund White
    |genre=LGBT Fiction ...y is taking on the fashion world and fast becoming the darling of the Fire Island's gay community. Fred, Andre and Pierre-Georges are all fixated on Guy, and
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  • Scramasax: The Viking Sagas, Book Two by Kevin Crossley-Holland
    ...sent by Zoe to pacify the Muslims on Sicily and wrest back control of the island. Hidden amongst the soldiers goes Solveig and for her, this journey will be ...om the court of Miklagard, through life on board a Viking longboat, to the island of Sicily, its mountain people and Islam in the middle ages, Solveig's jour
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  • The Last Brother by Nathacha Appanah
    |genre=Literary Fiction ...rovides the background to this story of loss and persecution on a tropical island as two boys form the most unlikely of friendships. Gorgeous and sad in equa
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  • Caribou Island by David Vann
    |title=Caribou Island |genre=Literary Fiction
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  • On The Island by Tracey Garvis Graves
    |title=On The Island |genre=Women's Fiction
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  • The Brilliant and Forever by Kevin MacNeil
    ...wed by them as little more than second-class citizens. But everyone on the island – human and alpaca alike – is obsessed with writing, each of them despe If you like intelligent fiction that will make you chuckle, you might enjoy [[Solar by Ian McEwan]].
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  • According to Arnold: A Novel of Love and Mushrooms by Giles Milton
    |genre=General Fiction ...s passion for mushrooms leads him to become king of a remote South Pacific island and the centre of a major conspiracy. An imaginative and unique read, perf
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  • The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender by Leslye Walton
    ...real genre-buster so it isn't at all predictable. You get some historical fiction, you get love stories, you get myth and legend and superstition. And you ge ...isappointed. This isn't a genre piece and if you're looking for commercial fiction, you won't find it here in ''Sorrows''. The density of the prose is a chall
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  • The Devil is White by William Palmer
    |genre=Historical Fiction ...ng under in late Eighteenth Century England, have an idea of claiming this island as a kind of Utopia where there are no slaves and everyone lives in comfort
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  • By Night The Mountain Burns by Juan Tomas Avila Laurel
    |genre=Literary Fiction '''Shortlisted for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize 2015'''
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  • Black Rock by Amanda Smyth
    |genre=Women's Fiction ...out from everything on wheels. I particularly enjoyed the loving detail of island life and the clever way new novelist Amanda Smyth caught the lilting rhythm
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  • The Castaways by Elin Hilderbrand
    |genre=Women's Fiction On the island of Nantucket, four couples have forged strong bonds of friendship. Together
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  • Richard and Judy Shortlist 2008
    |genre=General Fiction |genre=Literary Fiction
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  • Silver: Return to Treasure Island by Andrew Motion
    |title=Silver: Return to Treasure Island |genre=Literary Fiction
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  • The Crabber Stories by Francis Bennett
    ...htful, coming-of-age collection of short stories set on the shores of Long Island in the nineteen-fifties. They work a magic on you and it was a real pleasu ...he once earned and which then stuck - and he grew up on the shores of Long Island in the nineteen-fifties. It was a close-knit community and a time when chi
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  • Skios by Michael Frayn
    |genre=General Fiction '''Shortlisted for Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction 2013'''
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  • Everland by Rebecca Hunt
    |genre=General Fiction There have been two expeditions to the Antarctic island of Everland a century apart. The ill-fated 1913 trip of Dinners, Napps and
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  • Jigsaw by Garry Kilworth
    ...an archaeologist would need a zoologist - or to be on a disappearing coral island at all - but Rambutu is a great guy and Max and Hass think little of it. ...n Time]] and Steve Voake's [[The Starlight Conspiracy]] also blend science fiction, fantasy and magic to marvellous effect.
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  • Lost and Found by Jacqueline Sheehan
    |genre=General Fiction ...he left her home, her job as a psychologist, her family and moved to Peaks Island off the coast of Maine where she took a job as an animal warden. On the ba
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  • Stars of Fortune (Guardians Trilogy) by Nora Roberts
    |genre=Women's Fiction ...famous five…err… six… for grown-ups in this fantasy/romance set on a Greek island against powers of evil. Possibly cheesy but for fans of cheesy it's an exc
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  • Escape from Silk Cotton Forest (Island Fiction) by Francis C Escayg
    |title= Escape from Silk Cotton Forest (Island Fiction) ...tula Tide by Sharon Tregenza]] leads the way in showing how small, insular island locales can lead to novel magic in a fully rounded way.
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  • Whisky Galore by Sir Compton Mackenzie
    ...hortened it) wrote ''Whisky Galore'' in 1946 as a tribute to the Hebridian island of Barra where he lived prior to moving to southeast England two years befo ...is partially accepted but he still has power over the previously enclosed island community that they resent and resist. This is even more evident in the ca
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  • The Summer Book by Tove Jansson
    |genre=Literary Fiction An island in the Gulf of Finland.
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  • The Mystery of the Venus Island Fetish by Dido Butterworth and Tim Flannery
    |title=The Mystery of the Venus Island Fetish |sort=Mystery of the Venus Island Fetish
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  • Minecraft Guide to Exploration: An official Minecraft book from Mojang by Mojang AB
    |genre=Children's Non-Fiction I've just finished reading Max Brooks' novel, ''Minecraft: The Island'' and it was the perfect companion to this little book. On their own either
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  • The Lighthouse by P D James
    Combe Island, off the Cornish coast is a privately-owned retreat offering respite to peo ...Baroness James, in her eighties, was no longer up to producing good crime fiction. Whilst The Lighthouse isn't up to the standard of her best work - for me t
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  • Golden Hill by Francis Spufford
    |genre=Literary Fiction |summary=Much, much more than an engaging piece of historical fiction. Highly recommended.
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  • The Movement of Stars by Amy Brill
    |genre=Historical Fiction |summary=It starts off feeling like a reasonably good historical fiction about a woman fighting 19th century norms in a small town. Then, surreptit
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  • The Sea On Our Skin by Madeleine Tobert
    |genre=General Fiction |summary=An idyllic Pacific island and a mis-matched couple is the beginning of a story of love and hurt in a
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  • Finding Mother by Anne Allen
    |genre=Women's Fiction ...of Guernsey by Anne Allen|Dangerous Waters: Mystery, Loss and Love on the Island of Guernsey]] and if you've read that book you'll notice a glancing referen
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  • Top Ten Books For Your Auntie
    |genre=General Fiction |genre=Literary Fiction
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  • Koko Takes a Holiday by Kieran Shea
    |genre=Science Fiction ...e down. 'Koko takes a Holiday' is action-packed and humorous pulp science fiction at its best.
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  • Killer Heat by Linda Fairstein
    ...ar parts of the area, such as Governor's Island, Breezy Point or Bannerman Island, some fifty miles up the Hudson River. Excellent maps are provided and the ...Attorney of Manhattan's sex crimes unit and she knows her stuff – this is fiction written from knowledge rather than research and you sense that there's a lo
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  • Top Ten Adult Books That Teens Should Read
    Do you remember your first foray into adult fiction? We certainly do. There's a whole world of grown up books out there just wa |genre=General Fiction
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  • Gillespie and I by Jane Harris
    |genre=Literary Fiction |summary=That rare thing - literary fiction that is highly readable. Set mostly in Victorian Glasgow, telling one side
    3 KB (536 words) - 13:18, 22 February 2018
  • Angel of Brooklyn by Janette Jenkins
    |genre=Women's Fiction ...from his travels in America with a new bride, a former showgirl from Coney Island. Beatrice is captivatingly beautiful and as such, becomes quite the focus
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  • Ariadne's Thread by Gavin James
    |genre=General Fiction ...re she was born, until the war was over. German soldiers had occupied the island and whilst they were there it would not be home to her, her mother and sist
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  • Man Booker Prize 2015
    |genre=Literary Fiction |title=Satin Island
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  • Island on Fire: The extraordinary story of Laki, the volcano that turned eighteenth-century Europe dark by Alexandra Witze and Jeff Kanipe
    |title=Island on Fire: The extraordinary story of Laki, the volcano that turned eighteent ''Island on Fire'' was the perfect book for me. Laki erupted in 1783 and Alexandra
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  • In the Name of Love by Patrick Smith
    |genre=General Fiction When Dan Byrne's wife died suddenly he took refuge on an island near Stockholm and worked quietly at home as a translator, needing little i
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  • A Single Breath by Lucy Clarke
    |genre=General Fiction ...ure escapism, set in a beautiful location; the coast of a remote Tasmanian island. The plot is fast-paced and the characters well drawn and likeable. As the
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  • Hurricane Hole by John Kerr
    |genre=Historical Fiction ...ain that Ericsson was building a base for U-boats at Hurricane Hole on Hog Island. The problem was what to do about it. The Governor of the Bahamas was the
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  • The Last Resort by Susi Holliday
    ...melia whose presence is a mystery. We follow the group as they explore the island, and each other's histories and it becomes clear that they all have a dark [[Category:Dystopian Fiction]]
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  • Black Lake by Johanna Lane
    |genre=Literary Fiction ...he family chapel on the lake's island. It used to be in the middle of the island, central but became side-lined to one end by erosion.
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  • Holy Island: A DCI Ryan Mystery by L J Ross
    |title=Holy Island: A DCI Ryan Mystery ...lly dawns on Ryan that isn't going to help at all: the murderer must be an island resident. Not something that will endear Ryan to the locals!
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  • An Island of Our Own by Sally Nicholls
    |title=An Island of Our Own |sort=Island of Our Own, An
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  • Top Ten War Novels
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  • The Hidden Keys by Andre Alexis
    |genre=General Fiction Alexis was inspired by ''Treasure Island'' and this does ring true throughout the story, with Tancred's journey bese
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  • The Ingo Chronicles: Stormswept by Helen Dunmore
    ...talent for playing the violin. One day, he will play the special violin of island legend, but for now, Conan's fiddle sits high on a shelf waiting for him. ...more|Ingo]] series. It's absolutely unforgettable. For more classy mermaid fiction, you could also look at [[Selina Penaluna by Jan Page]], a lyrical book in
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  • Savage Blood by Alex Chance
    |genre=General Fiction ...And the common factor linking them all together - cannibalism in a remote island.
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  • Wild Life by Liam Brown
    |genre=General Fiction ...and family due to addictions, he may find himself in a park rather than an island but the allegorical meaning goes along the same lines.
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  • The Martian War by Kevin J Anderson
    |genre=Science Fiction ...nd Kevin J Anderson’s latest novel ''The Martian War''. Blending fact with fiction, the author’s obvious love of Wells' cannon shines though in this elegant
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  • House of Odysseus by Claire North
    |genre= Literary Fiction ...two rulers come together, all the eyes of the world turn towards the small island, wondering which path fate will be led down.
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  • The Honeymoon by Tina Seskis
    ...e been through together, how can this be happening? Is there anyone on the island who Jemma can trust? And above all - where has her husband gone? [[Category:General Fiction]]
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  • Swamplandia! by Karen Russell
    |genre=Literary Fiction ...lder sister Ossie is in love with a ghost. They have grown up on a Florida island theme park with their parents, their grandfather and their big brother Kiwi
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  • The Last Wild by Piers Torday
    '''Shortlisted for Waterstone's Best Fiction for 5-12s 2014''' ...gest food company, which has gradually taken over the running of the whole Island, including schools, hospitals and eventually the government itself.
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  • The Interview: Bookbag Talks To Stephen Mark Norman
    ...eir books with genuinely heroic characters. People who love their science-fiction and want to find something new to add to their list of favourite books or t ...se it is about science, history, politics and economics and although it is fiction, I wanted to be as accurate as possible with the facts behind the story. T
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  • Little Beach Street Bakery by Jenny Colgan
    |genre=Women's Fiction ...urther afield for new affordable accommodation and finds a neglected tidal island in Cornwall connected by a causeway to the mainland. In the harbour, there
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  • Honeymoon Suite by Wendy Holden
    |genre= Women's Fiction ...where we had been bound in holy(ish) matrimony to the hot sunny Caribbean island where we would moon, in a sweet, honeyed fashion, for a further week, I pic
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  • The Interview: Bookbag Talks To SJ Griffin
    ...f Thrones'' but it's probably as much a fantasy trilogy as it is a science fiction trilogy. I didn't mean it to be so awkward but I quite like that it is. * '''BB: What would be your desert island book?'''
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  • Siracusa by Delia Ephron
    |genre=General Fiction ...ler about two American couples who take a holiday together to the Sicilian island of Siracusa. Shifting between the perspectives of the four main characters,
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  • The Headmaster's Wife by Thomas Christopher Greene
    |genre=General Fiction ...Bick]] touches on the same themes, and is a brilliant read, as is [[On The Island by Tracey Garvis Graves]]
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  • Tigerman by Nick Harkaway
    |genre=General Fiction |summary=A 40 year old retired soldier posted as consul on a small island seeks to impress a young boy he wants to father. Deeper, more considered a
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  • The Suicide Run by William Styron
    A WW2 naval soldier, guarding a prison island for those found guilty at court-martials, is forced to wonder if he is winn ...nding in the Pacific is quite educative, and gives a different tint to war fiction, being away from the European theatre us in the UK read about and learn abo
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  • Lots – The Diversity of Life on Earth by Nicola Davies and Emily Sutton
    |genre=Children's Non-Fiction ...cts that will encourage children to find out more. This is children's non-fiction at its very best, inspiring, informative and beautiful.
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  • Leonce Gaiter Talks To Bookbag About Why Men Are Only 20% of all Fiction Readers
    |title= Leonce Gaiter Talks To Bookbag About Why Men Are Only 20% of all Fiction Readers '''Why Men Opt Out of the (Women’s) Fiction World'''
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  • Dark Matter by Juli Zeh
    |genre=Literary Fiction ...sland' were put to Oskar I suspect he would immediately declare himself an island. He's brilliant and controversial. A heady mix. Some would say a lethal
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  • Minecraft Guide to Creative: An Official Minecraft Book From Mojang by Mojang AB
    |genre=Children's Non-Fiction Further reading [[Minecraft: The Island by Max Brooks]] is a perfect companion to this book as is [[Minecraft Guide
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  • A Climate of Fear by Fred Vargas and Sian Reynolds (translator)
    ...ly a thriller of two halves, as one plods but the other visits other crime fiction scenes in Europe. We are used to Vargas books being wholly enjoyable, howe ...d) point to a hushed-up murder and rape on a remote and isolated Icelandic island ten years previously, but Adamsberg and his team will soon be working on th
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  • From The Fatherland, With Love by Ryu Murakami
    |genre=Literary Fiction |summary=Speculative fiction focusing on North Korea's invasion of Japan in 2011.
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  • The Final Hitch by Samantha Scott-Jeffries
    |genre=Women's Fiction ...nds herself back in his arms, planning to start a new life together on the island. But as they start to renovate their beautiful new home in the mountain to
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  • Brixton Beach by Roma Tearne
    |genre=Literary Fiction ...are immediately left hanging as we're transported back thirty years to an island still called Ceylon, where a young half-Tamil, half-Singhalese girl called
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  • A Kind of Eden by Amanda Smyth
    |genre=Literary Fiction ...that it is to pay for the school fees post-redundancy, but he settles into island life too fully for that to be the whole story. When his wife and daughter
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  • The Sixteen Trees of the Somme by Lars Mytting and Paul Russell Grant (Translator)
    |genre=General Fiction ...way to an area of France synonymous with devastation and a remote Scottish island loaded with secrets.
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  • The Interview: Bookbag Talks To Hugo Driscoll
    ...at you're now a content writer. How difficult was it to switch to writing fiction, and which discipline do you like best?''' HG: I think fiction is unquestionably the most difficult medium of writing. You're trying to co
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  • A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki
    |genre=Literary Fiction ...'Hello Kitty' bag washed up on the shore of Whaletown, the small Canadian island that she and her husband Oliver call home. As Ruth opens it and begins rea
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  • Father's Day by Simon Van Booy
    |genre=General Fiction ..., ''Father's Day'' weaves together the story of Harvey's childhood on Long Island, and her life as a young woman in Paris.
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  • The Lovely Horrible Stuff by Eddie Campbell
    ...re. In the second half of this book it causes a journalistic piece of non-fiction as he takes a look at Pacific islanders who used man-sized stone discs as c ...tures in a plain 3x3 grid is enlivened by the way he can dash from fact to fiction to fantasy and back again, all on one page. I noted bits of this that coul
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  • Faithful by Alice Hoffman
    |genre=General Fiction Growing up on Long Island, Shelby Richmond is an ordinary girl until one night an extraordinary trage
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  • The Interview: Bookbag Talks To Ken Howard
    ...unusual story about an American boy who finds himself on a remote Scottish island in the middle of a clan conflict. It's easy to read, but with several layer ...r great books for children. I am very honoured to have written their first fiction title.
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  • Beautiful Place by Amanthi Harris
    |genre=Literary Fiction ...writes unflinchingly of the beauty and the hypocrisy and corruption of the island.
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  • The Legacy of Elizabeth Pringle by Kirsty Wark
    |genre=Historical Fiction |summary=Newsnight/The Review Show's Kirsty Wark can write fiction and this is the book that proves it. The lives of three women from three g
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  • The Religion by Tim Willocks
    |genre=Historical Fiction ...rla hasn't seen since the day of his birth) is rumoured to be on Malta, an island currently being threatened by 30,000 Turks and defended by a tenth of that
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  • Resolution by A N Wilson
    |genre=Literary Fiction |summary=From a prolific author of both fiction and nonfiction, a meticulously researched novel about George Forster, one o
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  • Koko the Mighty by Kieran Shea
    |genre=Science Fiction ...life, but running a hotel is not easy, especially when it is on a pleasure island known for its indiscriminate violence and hedonism. Koko Martsteller had h
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  • Beautiful Day by Elin Hilderbrand
    |genre=Women's Fiction ...s and the setting of Nantucket is blissful. I've never stepped foot on the island and yet I feel like I go every year in these stories. It’s a wonderful pl
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  • The Summer Seaside Kitchen by Jenny Colgan
    |genre=Women's Fiction ...ly dorky but sassy heroine Flora, who has escaped from the little Scottish island of Mure to the busy life in a big city down south. There is a seemingly hop
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  • Two Serious Ladies by Jane Bowles
    |genre=Literary Fiction ...with them too, and later when they all move to a falling-down house on an island they are joined there by Arnold's father who has walked out on his wife. C
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  • The Interview: Bookbag Talks To David Vann
    ...the same as what’s published. For [[Caribou Island by David Vann|Caribou Island]], I added seven or eight paragraphs of background information about Irene, ...avid Vann|Legend of a Suicide]] and [[Caribou Island by David Vann|Caribou Island]] were both set in Alaska, where you were born and grew up, but you’ve mo
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  • Huracan by Diana McCaulay
    |genre=Literary Fiction ...to find out she'd gone back to Jamaica. The residual family had left the island not long after the father's desertion.
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  • A Winter Book by Tove Jansson
    |genre=Literary Fiction ...her Summer Book, which told of a six-year-old child's visit to the summer island of her ageing artist grandmother.
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  • Legend of a Suicide by David Vann
    |genre=Literary Fiction ...ries linked by a common theme, or a novella with supporting pieces? Is it fiction with a strong autobiographical thread running through it? The simple answe
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  • The Sun is also a Star by Nicola Yoon
    '''Shortlisted for the Waterstones Children's Book Prize 2017: Older Fiction''' ...h immigrant love story. For more from Jamaica, try [[Time Swimmer (Island Fiction) by Gerald Hausman]].
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  • October 2011 Newsletter
    ...ctober?!'' Thankfully, her sanity was saved by some jolly good young adult fiction making its way onto bookshelves near you. ...s the whittling down of the children's fiction prize [[Guardian Children's Fiction Prize 2011|longlist]]. The shortlisted quartest comprises [[Return to Ribbl
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  • Slave Girl by Jackie French
    ...aga and Eirik's Saga, ''Slave Girl'' is told through the eyes of Hekja, an island girl taken captive in a Viking raid and transported first to Greenland and ...ng without her father and brothers, who all died young in their hard, poor island existence, when Vikings raid her village, slaughter her mother and take her
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  • Stanley Gibbons Stamp Catalogue Commonwealth & Empire Stamps 1840-1970 2011 by Hugh Jefferies
    ...same group as Australia; ditto New Brunswick, Newfoundland, Prince Edward Island and Nova Scotia with Canada. Where territories changed their names after i ...atalogue 2010 by Stanley Gibbons]], and for an unusual, associated work of fiction, [[The Stamp King by G. De Beauregard and H. De Gorsse]].
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  • Uphill All the Way by Sue Moorcroft
    |genre=Women's Fiction ...or lived in Malta for some years and has a great deal of affection for the island.
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  • April 2014 Newsletter
    Are you a budding writer of children's fiction? Could you be the new JK Rowling or write the new ''Hunger Games''? If you' ...in 1981 and has now been reissued by Virago Modern Classics as children's fiction, but Sue thinks that it will appeal to anyone from 9 to 109. It has a grea
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  • The Devil's Triangle by Mark Robson
    ...sed as Sam and his friend, Callum, find themselves lost and stranded on an island that is terrifyingly different from anything they have witnessed before. Me ...o make it sound reasonably believable. The author does not let the science fiction aspect of the story drag down its pacing, with a plethora of action scenes
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  • The 50 States: Explore the U.S.A. with 50 fact-filled maps! by Gabrielle Balkan and Sol Linero
    |genre=Children's Non-Fiction ...relevant to the Missouri timeline? Why is Rhode Island supposed to be an island, let alone looking like Rhodes? And Orville Redenbacher - who he?!
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  • The Rental Heart and other Fairytales by Kirsty Logan
    At times we are on a small island, not specified as such but with the vocabulary that alerts the reader to th ...e of from two to sixteen pages this is not just a dump for someone's flash fiction. Also, however, the style can be a little too earnest, although the use of
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  • Dragon of Life Book 1: Raining Truth by Mark Devine
    |genre=Women's Fiction ...ine who come off the page and more action than you normally get in women's fiction. A good holiday read. Mark Devine popped into Bookbag Towers to [[The Inter
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  • The Lost City of Z: A Legendary British Explorer's Deadly Quest to Uncover the Secrets of the Amazon by David Grann
    ...is last trek resulted in mystery. A definitive and eminently readable non-fiction drama. ...de an adventurer by alleged treasure maps referring to lost hoards in that island's interior, and made a completely competent explorer by the burgeoning Roya
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  • The Boat People by Sharon Bala
    |genre=General Fiction ...sue by focusing on a father and son who travel from Sri Lanka to Vancouver Island by boat, their lawyers, and the Japanese-Canadian adjudicator who is to dec
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  • The Brain-dead Megaphone by George Saunders
    ...avel writing, literary appreciation, political essays, to surrealist short fiction. ...ve'' is an influence on him. Saunders also includes a few brief pieces of fiction writing, like his hilarious faux letters page 'Ask the Optimist' and his in
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  • Richard and Judy's Summer Reading List 2011
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  • The Interview: Bookbag Talks To Simon Pont
    ...who'' isn’t exact to me. I wrote ‘Remember to Breathe’ for people who love fiction, who enjoy characters and love the escape and fun they can give; whether it ...iated your name with non-fiction writing. What persuaded you to move into fiction?'''
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  • The Interview: Bookbag Talks To P De V Hencher
    ...it age specific, but it will doubtless appeal most to lovers of historical fiction. ...say maintain the credibility, even if it happens to be fantasy or science fiction. It's like the adage about watching a play (theatre again!) – suspend di
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  • The Book of Lies by Mary Horlock
    |genre=Literary Fiction ...alf that of Norwich or Preston. Unlike any of those towns, Guernsey is an island. It is self-contained. It isn't just that everyone knows everyone else; t
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  • Nazi Saboteurs on the Bayou by Steven Burgauer
    ...ugh it. It's effectively an elusive hybrid: fiction for the lovers of non-fiction. Steven Burgauer popped into Bookbag Towers to [[The Interview: Bookbag Tal ...|Steven]] writes makes this book different: a novel for those who love non-fiction. On the way there are some unforgettable characters who together provide a
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  • The Life of a Scilly Sergeant by Colin Taylor
    |summary=''All is well on Scilly'' is how this island policeman reported back to the British mainland every week. Everything her ...t how unnecessary it is to test the sirens on the force Land Rover – on an island with eight miles of metalled road using it wouldn't gain you any time whats
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  • The Book Collector by Alice Thompson
    |genre=General Fiction ...k goings-on in [[The Past by Tessa Hadley]]. You might also enjoy [[Burnt Island by Alice Thompson]], [[Sins by Mary Telford and Louise Verity]] and [[Littl
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  • Top Ten Literary Fiction Books of 2015
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  • The Aviator by Eugene Vodolazkin and Lisa Hayden (Translator)
    |genre=Literary Fiction ...he beach, of life in the dacha, of the airfield and the aviators...and the island...it seems like some memories may be better left buried. He remembers that
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  • Man Booker Prize 2012
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  • Freedom Next Time by John Pilger
    ...ns by the British in the 1960s - but the Americans required an unpopulated island. So the indigenous population - descendants of the slave trade - were secre ...ad Robert J Jackson's [[Temptations of Power]] about the war in Iraq. For fiction, you might enjoy [[North Facing by Tony Peake]].
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  • In The Wolf's Mouth by Adam Foulds
    |genre=Literary Fiction ...y aside, the language is beautiful - poetic descriptions make the war-torn island a memorable and often chilling place, and the short chapters are filled wi
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  • Little People, Big Dreams: Amelia Earhart by Isabel Sanchez Vegara and Mariadiamantes
    |genre=Children's Non-Fiction ...hen she attempted to fly around the world that she disappeared off Howland Island in the mid Pacific.
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  • Blood Rain by Michael Dibdin
    I'd better begin by admitting to a bias. I'm not too keen on fiction about organised crime, even if it's written by one of my favourite writers, ...motorway unconnected to any road which had been built in the south of the island - and of the dubious land deals which led to their construction. There's dr
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  • Bartolome: the Infanta's Pet by Rachel van Kooj and Siobhan Parkinson (translator)
    |publisher=Little Island ...e sights, smells and sounds of 1650’s Madrid come to full life. Historical fiction may not be the most popular genre in children’s literature, but ''Bartolo
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  • Songs Of Blue And Gold by Deborah Lawrenson
    |genre=Women's Fiction ...at it was to feel alive. But tragedy and scandal struck and Adie left the island and Elizabeth - and the relationship ended even more swiftly than it had be
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  • To Marry A Prince by Sophie Page
    |genre=Women's Fiction Bella Greenwood has just been away on a tropical island doing an eco-job for a man she though she rather fancied. She returned hom
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  • Cartes Postales from Greece by Victoria Hislop
    |genre=General Fiction ...A different type of fiction from the expert purveyor of Greek-set romantic fiction and yet just as enjoyably readable as usual. Not only that, it's beautiful
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  • Windhaven by George R R Martin and Lisa Tuttle
    ...ation. Maris and the other flyers’ travels across the ocean from island to island were superbly described: the imagery of crashing waves and freezing thunder [[Category:Science Fiction]]
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  • Far Rockaway by Charlie Fletcher
    ...ingachgook from ''Last of the Mohicans'', Long John Silver from ''Treasure Island'' and Alan Breck from ''Kidnapped''. With their help, will Cat be able to s ...ay! - that's exactly what I got. As Cat moves through the world of classic fiction and meets these iconic heroes, there's enough in the way of fights, chases
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  • Around the World in 80 Maps by Clare Hibbert
    |genre=Children's Non-Fiction ...ounding the place; they may convey the complex coast of a newly discovered island, or even in the case of Australia a whole continent; or they may just be co
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  • Waterfire Saga: Deep Blue by Jennifer Donnelly
    ...ix magical leaders of Atlantis, created the most evil of monsters, and the island sank below the sea, Serafina is preparing for a ceremony that will confirm ...ly isn't a story that would hold the attention of adults who enjoy good YA fiction. This saga is a partnership with Disney for Donnelly and it may be that thi
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  • Oceans in 30 Seconds by Jen Green and Wesley Robins
    ...Anita Ganeri]] which follows a similar format. Adults might appreciate [[Island on Fire: The extraordinary story of Laki, the volcano that turned eighteent [[Category:Children's Non-Fiction]]
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  • Jill's Top Ten YA novels of 2012
    2012 was a great year for YA fiction. Here are Jill's favourites. Why not [mailto:sue@thebookbag.co.uk tell us] |title=The Brides of Rollrock Island
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  • The Interview: Bookbag Talks To Jane Mitchell
    ...ly disaffected, despite citizenship on the school curriculum. Do you think fiction is better placed to incite topical debate amongst schoolchildren?''' ...rough a fictional story brings alive the reality of a political situation. Fiction can bring important issues to life. It can be a spring-board to further exp
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  • September 2010 Newsletter
    ...unusual story about an American boy who finds himself on a remote Scottish island in the middle of a clan conflict. It's easy to read, but with several layer ...ly Andy Mulligan. [[Marianne Dreams by Catherine Storr]] was on his desert island book shortlist and he reminded us of this eerie, surreal story about two in
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  • Top Ten General Fiction Books of 2014
    ...ooking out for the quirky, the unusual, but - above all - the best general fiction books from 2014. Here they are in alphabetical order by author: |genre=General Fiction
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  • The Affairs of Others by Amy Grace Loyd
    |genre=Literary Fiction Amy Grace Loyd has had an interesting writing career which includes editing fiction for ''Playboy''. Although this heritage is evident in this novel in all it
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  • The Complete Novellas by Agnes Owens
    |genre=Literary Fiction ...p the country towards Manchester and Leeds, as if the upper half of the UK island just didn't exist. Then again, public interest in working class literature
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  • The Seas by Samantha Hunt
    |genre=Literary Fiction ...oholic sailor, while her silence-loving mother, who grew up on an isolated island with deaf parents, worries deeply about her. Early on in the story we get t
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  • The Interview: Bookbag Talks To Alan Titchmarsh
    AT: Yes I am. Both fiction and non-fiction. At the moment I am reading a biography of Joseph Duveen who was the most ...could only take one book (other than the Bible or Shakespeare) to a desert island, which one would it be? '''
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  • Top Ten Self-Published Books 2015
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  • Until the Darkness Comes by Kevin Brooks
    Private detective John Craine has returned to Hale Island, the scene of many childhood holidays, to get away from a painful past, his Recommended for those who enjoy noirish crime fiction and aren't bothered by violence and depravity, and also, of course, for mat
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  • Emotional Geology by Linda Gillard
    |genre=Women's Fiction ...who suffers with depressive illness. She has moved to the small Scottish island of Uist, to come to terms with her past and redevelop some of her artistry
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  • Top Ten Women's Fiction Books 2014
    We've had great fun finding your top ten women's fiction books of 2014. We've tried to give you a selection of the big names and tho |genre=Women's Fiction
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  • How to Find your (First) Husband by Rosie Blake
    |genre=Women's Fiction ...s a nice read. It's laid back, witty, relaxing and jam packed with amazing island scenery. (If you don't read it on holiday, you'll want to go away immediate
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  • May 2012 Newsletter
    In fiction, John suggests the ambiguous [[HHhH by Laurent Binet]]. A history book, col In non-fiction, John has chosen a welcome paperback edition of [[This is Not the End of th
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  • Outsiders by Roberto Saviano, Carlo Lucarelli, Valeria Parrella, Piero Colaprico, Wu Ming, Simona Vinci
    |summary=An interesting collection of short stories, including one non-fiction piece, from modern Italian authors themed around isolation and exclusion. The collection ends with the only piece of non-fiction; Simona Vinci's ''Another Kind of Solitude'' which looks at isolation and l
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  • Man Booker Prize 2013
    |genre=Literary Fiction |genre=General Fiction
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  • Raffles And the Golden Opportunity by Victoria Glendinning
    ...of Singapore where the phrase 'wretchedly unpromising' probably shows the island in its best light. It was another occasion when Raffles acted first and so ...wed some of Glendinning's [[The Butcher's Daughter by Victoria Glendinning|fiction]].
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  • Molly Fox's Birthday by Deirdre Madden
    |genre=Literary Fiction ...lin's sophisticated informality is contrasted with grey, enduring Northern Island as conversations from the past pervade the narrator's mind.
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  • The Bishop's Man by Linden MacIntyre
    |genre=Literary Fiction ...rsonal and family ties to Cape Breton. He is also vaguely familiar on the island from occasional stand-in's for Father Mullins, priest-in-charge of one of t
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  • The Dark-Blue Winter Overcoat and other stories from the North by Sjon Hodgkinson and Ten Hodgkinson (editors)
    ...tire Nordic world, whether that be urban Scandinavia, the Faroes and other island groups, or Greenland. That is a world that's changing – as the Greenland ...ere Nordic literature is concerned – one editor was unknown by me but is a fiction specialist and award judge, and [[:Category:Sjon|Sjon]] is the embodiment o
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  • Christmas at Little Beach Street Bakery by Jenny Colgan
    |genre=Women's Fiction ...ilt a home and bakery business in the very romantic and inconvenient tidal island of Mount Polbearne with her American boyfriend Huckle and 'pet' puffin Neil
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  • Caleb's Crossing by Geraldine Brooks
    |genre=Historical Fiction ...sets down events concerning her early secret friendship with Caleb on the island, to accompanying him and her brother to Harvard and the subsequent events.
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  • Wanting by Richard Flanagan
    |genre=General Fiction ...ven fairly recently, have a look at [[The Tall Man: Life and Death on Palm Island by Chloe Hooper]].
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  • Top Ten Literary Fiction Books of 2014
    We've chosen our top ten literary fiction books of 2014, trying as far as possible to search out the hidden gems abou |genre=Literary Fiction
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  • Watchmen by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons
    ...ad by one of the comic's characters. This shows a man stranded on a desert island desperately trying to return to his hometown to save it from pirates, and i
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  • Generation A by Douglas Coupland
    |genre=Literary Fiction ...say straight off that he's one of my favourite writers. I've read all his fiction, and I just about peed my pants with excitement at getting to review this l
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  • Secrets of the Sea House by Elisabeth Gifford
    |genre=Historical Fiction ...ong you who aren't so keen. Shall we just say that if you like historical fiction with a modern twist you'll love ''Secrets of the Sea House''? Anything thi
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  • Inherent Vice by Thomas Pynchon
    ...saying this is a very American book - I know he's referring to Gilligan's Island, but nothing beyond that - there are bounties of cultural and cuisine refer A very different kind of fiction set in San Francisco can be found in the pages of [[The Story of a Marriage
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  • The Lie Tree by Frances Hardinge
    ...ge and intelligence to discover the truth behind the curious events on the island of Vane, and what, or who, killed her beloved father. '''Shortlisted for the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize 2015'''
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  • Something Like Happy by John Burnside
    ...ce with the biggest impact was a commission for a collection regarding the island of Jura, for the resulting ghost story is nigh-on fabulous. Two things to [[Category:General Fiction]]
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  • Stinkbomb and Ketchup-Face and the Badness of Badgers by John Dougherty
    Here we have the island of Great Kerfuffle (sawn off of Cornwall when the King at the time was just ...s have some of the wordplay of [[:Category:Philip Ardagh|Beardy Ardagh's]] fiction books, some of the self-knowing archness of Andy Stanton and other elements
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  • Sprout by Dale Peck
    After his mother dies of cancer, Sprout's father packs up their lives in Long Island and moves himself and his twelve-year-old son to rural Kansas. Once there, [[Category:LGBT Fiction]]
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  • No Great Mischief by Alistair MacLeod
    |genre=Literary Fiction ...ver changing wildness of Cape Breton. MacLeod evokes a strong sense of the island and its beauty, the closeness to simple pleasures and the natural world tha
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  • The Interview: Bookbag Talks To H A Goodman
    ...ze this ability to write more novels. I grew up loving fantasy and science fiction. * '''BB: If you could take just one book to a desert island, what would you choose?'''
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  • Snug by Matthew Tree
    |genre=General Fiction ...nted a house in Coldwater Bay, a tiny village on the southern coast of the island. All went well, if even a little boringly, for a few days until Mrs Whiteb
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  • The Interview: Bookbag Talks To B C R Fegan
    ...’t grown out of my love for children’s picture books. Sure, I grew into YA fiction (which I also still love) and then fantasy, mysteries, thrillers and even p ...’t grown out of my love for children’s picture books. Sure, I grew into YA fiction (which I also still love) and then fantasy, mysteries, thrillers and even p
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  • The True Tale of the Monster Billy Dean by David Almond
    |genre=Literary Fiction ...le room is also the central conceit in [[Room by Emma Donoghue]]. In [[The Island at the End of the World by Sam Taylor]], the central character Finn is also
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  • The Interview: Bookbag Talks To Angela Young
    ...used by what was happening outside me. And so, because I have always loved fiction and always read and written, I began to write SPEAKING of LOVE to try to un ...to you? What are you reading at the moment and what would be your desert island book?'''
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  • Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
    |genre=Literary Fiction ...s Antoinette's childhood in Jamaica and her honeymoon on a small Caribbean island with her new husband and their domestic servants, and the point of view shi
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  • Marooned in the Arctic by Peggy Caravantes
    ...ny other 'Eskimo' and four intrepid Westerners, to the uninhabited Wrangel Island, perched off the northern Siberian coast. They were there just to stick a ...allmark volume, for the simple fact that it is dressed as a children's non-fiction title. And boy it opened my eyes a little – if they could all be this go
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  • The Sultan's Tigers by Josh Lacey
    ...hat way – and even Tom himself learnt the benefits of such a life in the [[Island of Thieves by Josh Lacey|first book in the series]]. With the passing of t ...s two children going to the subcontinent for an inheritance, as historical fiction.
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  • Mistress of the Sea by Jenny Barden
    |genre=Historical Fiction ...ok, with one of the most interesting characters being marooned on a remote island, which is quite limiting in terms of action. Thankfully, the book picks up
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  • What to Look for in Winter: A Memoir in Blindness by Candia McWilliam
    ...cts with writers and artist, the recreation of family life on the Scottish island of Colonsay or in Edinburgh, the twists and turns of her two marriages and ...cancer which makes for poignant comparison with McWilliam. For lovers of fiction, we can recommend [[Blind by Cath Weeks]].
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  • The Quickening by Julie Myerson
    |genre=General Fiction ...and Dan are on holiday in the Caribbean, but soon after they arrive on the island of Antigua odd and disturbing things start to happen. Items seemingly move
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  • The Ice Lands by Steinar Bragi and Lorenza Garcia (translator)
    ...ly come from Iceland. There's something about the genre fiction from that island that has an earthy, gritty mysticism running through it like letters throug ...nature of Iceland and her people making sections feel almost like literary fiction in the use of character to act as cyphers for authorial statements, alongsi
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  • Sag Harbor by Colson Whitehead
    |genre=Literary Fiction ...cationing youngster. Sag Harbor really does exist - at the far end of Long Island and next to the up-market Hamptons. It has a history of whaling and an asso
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  • Gladiator: Fight for Freedom by Simon Scarrow
    ...ally put down, he retired from the army and bought a farm on a small Greek island. Marcus has spent most of his boyhood on the farm, learning to train dogs, [[Category:Historical Fiction]]
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  • The Space Between by Meg Grehan
    |publisher=Little Island Books [[Category:LGBT Fiction]]
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  • If I Never Went Home by Ingrid Persaud
    |genre=General Fiction ...of Trinidadian life, ''If I Never Went Home'' paints a vivid picture of an island full of life, personality, sunshine and wonderful food and drink? But does
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  • The Serpent Sword by Matthew Harffy
    |genre=Historical Fiction |summary= An incredible work of historical fiction. A deft and skilful author who builds tension well and delivers simply bril
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  • The Light Between Oceans by M L Stedman
    |genre=Literary Fiction ...novel. How would a story about a couple and a baby on a remote rock of an island be sustained for 300 plus pages? It's actually sustained rather beautifully
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  • The Spinning Heart by Donal Ryan
    |genre=Literary Fiction ...ancial crash has hit and Pokey has done a runner. An investment in a fake island off Dubai finished him and now he's disappeared. On the estate of forty ho
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  • Bellewether by Susanna Kearsley
    ...he supernatural that centres around something so simple as a house on Long Island. Kearlsey carries on her streak of skilfully written historical fictions wh [[Category:Historical Fiction]] [[Category:Paranormal]]
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  • Needlework by Deirdre Sullivan
    |genre=General Fiction |publisher=Little Island
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  • The Lemon Grove by Helen Walsh
    |genre=General Fiction This is a sultry book that needs a hot, steamy setting, so the Spanish island works well. It becomes a character in its own right quite quickly, and soon
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