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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
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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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