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  • |genre=General Fiction ...h love, loss and reconciliation in this epic family saga set on a Sicilian island.
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  • |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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  • |title=Napoleon's Last Island |genre=Literary Fiction
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  • ...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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  • |genre=Historical Fiction ...g tale of dark secrets and unforgiveable crimes against the backdrop of an Island paradise.
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  • |title=The Island of Sheep (John Hannay) |sort= Island of Sheep (John Hannay)
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  • |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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  • |title= The Island |sort= Island
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  • |title=The Legend of the Swan Children (Island Fiction) |sort=Legend of the Swan Children (Island Fiction)
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  • |title=The Chalice Project (Island Fiction) |sort=Chalice Project (Island Fiction)
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  • |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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  • |title=Satin Island |genre=Literary Fiction
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  • |title= The Island at the End of Everything |sort= Island at the End of Everything
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  • |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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  • |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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  • ...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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  • |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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  • |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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  • ...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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  • |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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  • |title=Island of Wings |genre=Historical Fiction
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  • |genre=General Fiction |summary= Ruth returns to her Maine island home, where neighbouring lobster fishermen have fought for generations. I d
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  • |title=Desolation Island |genre=Literary Fiction
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  • |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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  • |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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  • |title=The Island at the End of the World |genre=Literary Fiction
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  • |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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  • |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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  • |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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  • 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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  • |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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  • |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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  • |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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  • |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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  • |title=The Brides of Rollrock Island |sort=Brides of Rollrock Island
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  • |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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  • |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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  • {{amazonurl|isbn=B017WDM2JO|title=The Iron Island}} (short story, 2015) [[Category:Lists]] [[Category:Science Fiction]] [[Category:Jeff Somers]]
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  • 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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  • |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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  • |genre=General Fiction '''Shortlisted for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize 2015'''
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  • ...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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  • |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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  • |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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  • |title=Dangerous Waters: Mystery, Loss and Love on the Island of Guernsey |genre=Women's Fiction
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  • ...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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  • |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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  • |title=Coming Home to Island House |genre=Women's Fiction
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  • |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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  • ...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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  • |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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  • ...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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  • |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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  • ...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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  • |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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  • |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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  • 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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  • |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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  • |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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  • ...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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  • ...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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  • |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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  • |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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  • |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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  • |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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  • |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 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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  • |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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  • ...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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  • |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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  • |title=Caribou Island |genre=Literary Fiction
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  • |title=On The Island |genre=Women's Fiction
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  • ...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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  • |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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  • ...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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  • |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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  • |genre=Literary Fiction '''Shortlisted for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize 2015'''
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  • |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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  • |genre=Women's Fiction On the island of Nantucket, four couples have forged strong bonds of friendship. Together
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  • |genre=General Fiction |genre=Literary Fiction
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  • |title=Silver: Return to Treasure Island |genre=Literary Fiction
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  • ...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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  • |genre=General Fiction '''Shortlisted for Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction 2013'''
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  • |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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  • ...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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  • |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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  • |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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  • |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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  • ...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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  • |genre=Literary Fiction An island in the Gulf of Finland.
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  • |title=The Mystery of the Venus Island Fetish |sort=Mystery of the Venus Island Fetish
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  • |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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  • 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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  • |genre=Literary Fiction |summary=Much, much more than an engaging piece of historical fiction. Highly recommended.
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  • |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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  • |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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  • |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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  • |genre=General Fiction |genre=Literary Fiction
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  • |genre=Science Fiction ...e down. 'Koko takes a Holiday' is action-packed and humorous pulp science fiction at its best.
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  • ...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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  • 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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  • |genre=Literary Fiction |summary=That rare thing - literary fiction that is highly readable. Set mostly in Victorian Glasgow, telling one side
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  • |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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  • |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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  • |genre=Literary Fiction |title=Satin Island
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  • |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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  • |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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  • |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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  • |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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  • ...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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  • |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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  • |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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  • |title=An Island of Our Own |sort=Island of Our Own, An
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  • |genre=Literary Fiction |genre=Literary Fiction
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  • |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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  • ...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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  • |genre=General Fiction ...And the common factor linking them all together - cannibalism in a remote island.
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  • |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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  • |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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  • ...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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  • |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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  • '''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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  • ...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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  • |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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  • |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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  • ...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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  • |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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  • |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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  • |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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  • 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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  • |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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  • |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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  • |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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  • |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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  • ...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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  • |genre=Literary Fiction |summary=Speculative fiction focusing on North Korea's invasion of Japan in 2011.
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  • |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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  • |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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  • |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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  • |genre=General Fiction ...way to an area of France synonymous with devastation and a remote Scottish island loaded with secrets.
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  • ...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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  • |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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  • |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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  • ...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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  • |genre=General Fiction Growing up on Long Island, Shelby Richmond is an ordinary girl until one night an extraordinary trage
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  • ...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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  • |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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  • |genre=Literary Fiction ...writes unflinchingly of the beauty and the hypocrisy and corruption of the island.
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  • |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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  • |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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  • |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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  • |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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  • |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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  • |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 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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  • |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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  • |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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  • |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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  • '''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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  • ...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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  • ...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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  • ...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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  • |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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  • 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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  • ...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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  • |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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  • |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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  • 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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  • |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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  • ...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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  • |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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  • ...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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  • |genre=Historical Fiction |genre=General Fiction
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  • ...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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  • ...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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  • |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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  • ...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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  • |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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  • |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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  • |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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  • |genre=Historical Fiction |genre=Historical Fiction
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  • ...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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  • |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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  • |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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  • 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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  • |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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  • |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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  • |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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  • |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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  • ...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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  • ...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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  • |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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  • ...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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  • ...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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  • 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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  • ...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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  • ...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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  • ...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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  • |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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  • |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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  • |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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  • 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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  • 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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  • |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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  • 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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  • |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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  • 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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  • |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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  • ...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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  • |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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  • |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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  • ...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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  • |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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  • |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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  • |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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  • 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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  • ...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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  • |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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  • |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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  • ...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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  • ...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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  • ...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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  • 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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  • 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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  • |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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  • ...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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  • |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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  • ...’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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  • |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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  • ...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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  • |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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  • ...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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  • ...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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  • |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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  • ...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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  • |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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  • ...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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  • ...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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  • |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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  • |publisher=Little Island Books [[Category:LGBT Fiction]]
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  • |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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  • |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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  • |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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  • |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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  • ...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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  • |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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  • ...a'' was a beautiful way to write about what happened. What made you choose fiction as a way to discuss it?''' ...adiation coming from various sources. I think there will be a lot more non-fiction accounts written on this, especially as more of the politics and health iss
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  • |genre=General Fiction ...s childhood home of Bhalla House, an imposing estate on a remote Hebridean island. The grand residence was built at the expense of the local community, many
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  • |genre=General Fiction ...g that much money. The book store he runs, stuck out on a limb on a quiet island community, is too remote to turn a profit year-round, and he has just dismi
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  • ...a better place, and that there are other people, now and in history and in fiction, who stand alongside them in this.'' ...ading a pacifist protest Olivia is sent to stay with her Dad on the remote island of Lindisfarne. Things are made even worse for Olivia as she has recently a
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  • |genre=Children's Non-Fiction ...for the world's map as well, here's the job to do a prequel to ''Treasure Island'' concerning Long John Silver's parrot's back-story, here's where we comple
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  • |genre=Science Fiction ...takes care of the community, Brooklyn is cool with an attitude and Staten Island keeps to them self, a part from the rest rather than a part of it it. I've
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  • ...to lose and everything to gain, Anna accepts. She is taken to an isolated Island with other ''candidates'' for a job in the super-secret organisation. Anna' If you're interested in this type of fiction, I would recommend ''1984'' by George Orwell and [[The Hunger Games by Suza
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  • ...ve Jimmy Perez, and is just as good as the first. Highly recommended crime fiction. ...estions, but one thing is certain: there is a killer at large in the small island community of Biddista, and unless they are tracked down soon they will sure
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  • |genre=Women's Fiction ...[[How We Met by Katy Regan]] for a rather more serious look at the holiday island. For more from Jane L Gibson we have a review of [[A Different Reflection
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  • |genre=General Fiction Katie and her friends in Elephant Beach, Long Island are going to make the most of summer 1972. High school is behind them, the
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  • ...He calls this novel his 'experiment' as he attempts to dovetail historical fiction with Conde's normal police procedural mode. Actually he does more than att If you'd just like to learn more of Cuba as a destination, we recommend [[The Island That Dared: Journeys in Cuba by Dervla Murphy]].
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  • * '''BB: I know that you have considerable knowledge of Victorian fiction. What drew you to this period?''' * '''BB: What are you reading at the moment? And what would be your desert island book?'''
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  • |genre=General Fiction ...use it was made into one of the more beautiful movie adaptations of modern fiction. While his latest book, ''The Elephant Keepers' Children'' is unlikely to c
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  • It's been a rich year for literary fiction and we had great fun debating which were our favourites - but here they are |genre=Literary Fiction
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  • ...with a journalistic background why did you choose fiction rather than non-fiction to bring us the realities of Iraq?''' ...l Zoe and her colleagues and how much was biographical content rather than fiction?'''
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  • ...g in creative writing, nor any previous experience in writing biographical fiction, so It was rather like laying out all the pieces of a giant jigsaw puzzle, ...isolated log cabin on an island in the middle of Narragansett Bay in Rhode Island, where I sailed my Lazer; the ship in which I was crossing the Atlantic, hi
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  • ...om the truth but publishers do seem to be moving away from serious women's fiction in favour of chick lit. Why do you think this is?''' ...ly forties, then I realised the virtual absence of mature women in popular fiction was insulting and ridiculous. Women over 40 were never centre-stage. If the
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  • In fiction, Zoe has found the perfect girly holiday read. [[The Sudden Departure of th ...t Story Ever! by Christopher Edge]], a fabulous and inspirational guide to fiction and narrative. It's bright and punchy and favours inspiration over hand-hol
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  • ...blish the stories. Hart has gone to visit McAllister on the Mediterranean island where he's lived in seclusion for decades. She wants to check through the
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  • |genre=General Fiction ...n was instant and mutual. It led to her joining him on a dig on an Aegean island. Particularly treasured as artefacts (by both archaeologists and looters)
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  • In fiction, Luke loved [[Little Gold by Allie Rogers]]. The heat is oppressive and sto ...look at [[The Island that Disappeared by Tom Feiling]], the history of the island of Providence in the Caribbean. From its early Puritan settlers and the dis
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  • ...Ireland from humankind, they have placed a magical seal around the entire island. Nobody can get in or out. North? South? Doesn't matter any more. What does [[Category:Dystopian Fiction]]
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  • ...the round-up for Jen's hen party which is to take place on Clachan Geal an island just south of Barra. They're all staying in The Cliff House, hosted by Lau For Science Fiction from Brookmyre, try [[Places in the Darkness by Chris Brookmyre|Places in t
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  • |genre=Historical Fiction ...lieves them. It is early in the 17th century and she lives on a windswept island off the coast of Iceland. She knows that the hidden folk live in the rocks
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  • |genre=General Fiction ...and of settings ranging from a Sussex countryside cottage and a Portuguese island to Sydney, Australia are absorbing and realistic. Isabelle has an enjoyable
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  • When Hylas finally arrives on the island of Keftiu, he finds a wasteland. There's famine and plague and his sailor f [[Category:Historical Fiction]]
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  • |genre=Women's Fiction ...to read, and the dialogue is great for moving the story on. I enjoyed the island setting as it was a bit more foreign than Butlins, but you didn’t get inf
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  • ...D I Kim Stone novels]]. For more from Kate Rhodes, try on of her [[Burnt Island (Ben Kitto) by Kate Rhodes|Ben Kitto]] stories. We also liked [[Creep by J
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  • |genre=Historical Fiction ...not only was I amazed to discover that he wrote over 30 novels, 60-odd non-fiction works (including biographies of Sir Walter Scott and Oliver Cromwell) and 7
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  • |genre=General Fiction ...s a great sense of being temporarily stranded without them all being on an island they needed to find their way off, and as the secrets become bigger, the sm
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  • |genre=Literary Fiction ...ven chauvinistically feel that we have a better handle on justice than the island state has. However the frailties of humanity reflected in these pages are
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  • |genre=General Fiction |summary=A compelling read about a coup-de-etat on a fictional Caribbean island from the point of view of the rebels and a government minister. Recommended
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  • ...Crime Novels of 2014|crime fiction]] or [[Top Ten Teen Books of 2014|teen fiction]] or [[Top Ten Autobiographies 2014|autobiographies]] ? There are plenty mo ...le sounding future, Descent is a fantastic read - not just a great science fiction novel, but a great work of storytelling that would appeal to both those who
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  • ...t|The Crabber Stories]]- a book of coming-of-age short stories set on Long Island in the nineteen-fifties - and we had plenty to talk about when Francis Benn ...t|The Crabber Stories]]- a book of coming-of-age short stories set on Long Island in the nineteen-fifties - and we had plenty to talk about when Francis Benn
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  • |genre=General Fiction ...Phuket, but the Phuket the tourists know is just a sideline. This is the island where the locals have been making a living without the benefit of tourism.
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  • ...as chosen an emotive subject in the Aboriginal people. For me, some of the fiction spilled over into fact which made parts of the narrative bitter-sweet and n ...ilar situation you might appreciate [[The Tall Man: Life and Death on Palm Island by Chloe Hooper]].
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  • ...ife centres around The Tower. It's 1000 stories tall, takes up most of the island, and is now home to Grand Central Station, Central Park, schools, shops, re I like science fiction stories but I did wonder whether this one was trying a little too hard to s
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  • |genre=General Fiction I read and enjoyed Hislop's ''The Island'' so I was looking forward to reading this book. The Prologue is May 2007
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  • |genre=Women's Fiction ...ntributors. Her anecdotes provide an entertaining whistle-stop tour of an island society. Matarena's innocent comments offer plenty of tongue-in-cheek humo
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  • |genre=Literary Fiction ...ound this too stern and sturdy a read, even when based on a mobile, living island. I can only hope it takes flight with you.
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  • |genre=Children's Non-Fiction ...bout the earth sciences bother with, so we see the different ecosystems of island life, the polar regions, the oceans, and so on; before we close with a look
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  • |genre=General Fiction ...he leaps at it. The job in hand, taking a special consignment to a remote island for a visiting American magnate, should be easy – but all of them, from M
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  • |genre=General Fiction ...e ever imagined (never having met one in the flesh). They are close knit – island life will do that to you. They are educated professionals, counting TV pres
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  • |genre=Literary Fiction Minou lives on a sparsely occupied, temperate island. In fact the only occupants apart from Minou and her Papa are Priest (the
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  • SBC: George Orwell and Bruce Chatwin from fiction but there are many non-fiction influences: Richard Dawkins (memes), Daniel Dennet (the evolution of freewi * '''BB: What would be your desert island book?'''
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  • In fiction, Ani was blown away by [[Hinterland by Caroline Brothers]]. Two boys set ou In non-fiction, John recommends [[Shapely Ankle Preferr'd: A History of the Lonely Hearts
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  • |genre=Historical Fiction ...he duo are in New York, there's some nice references to the period. Ellis Island '' ... wasn't in use yet'' for example.
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  • ...ers was the missing piece.'' This resulted in an exciting blend of Science fiction adventure, mystery, forensic criminology and techno-geek humour with teen a ...tourist spots with the added fictional locations of Loggerhead and Morris Island. A map is included at the start of each adventure so that readers can char
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  • '''Winner: Guardian Children's Fiction Award 2014''' ...to the red-eye virus and the majority of the remaining humans living on an island in four glass towers. They exist on a disgusting pink gloop that always tas
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  • ...'t alive and well. She's been taken to a secretive medical facility on the island of Shetland, experimented on, and then, well, turned into ''something else' [[Category:Dystopian Fiction]]
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  • |genre=General Fiction ...ed to remind us of the real hero of the narrative, the beautiful, innocent island of Puerto Rica itself. In brief snatches of emotion rather than detailed de
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  • |genre=General Fiction ...keeps it subsumed under layers of defensive indignation. If no man is an island then Ove must instead be a well-fortified castle with drawbridge up and wel
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  • |summary=Luke enjoyed the combination of compellingly-written science fiction which blends themes of innocence and growth with some well depicted moments Luke enjoyed the combination of compellingly-written science fiction which blends themes of innocence and growth with some well depicted moments
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  • |genre=Literary Fiction The man made island of Dejima is a window on the closed world of Japan, a meeting point for vas
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  • ...twisted versions of things that have happened - and then parts are purely fiction. Again, this comes from the desire/ need to keep it simple, so I suppose a * '''BB: What are you reading at the moment? What would be your desert island book?'''
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  • |genre=Literary Fiction ...ke the wings of one of the white cockatoos that gather in flocks about the island''. Equally the moments of savagery are not for the faint hearted. Alice's
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  • |genre=Literary Fiction ...oat that he scarcely knew how to sail into the stormy night waters off the island of Lismore and was ne'er seen again, live nor dead. Did he kill himself? W
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  • ...appreciate [[Victim Six by Gregg Olsen]] and [[The Chalice Project (Island Fiction) by Lisa Allen-Agostini]].
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  • |genre=Women's Fiction ...home for themselves, and their son, Oscar, on Bermuda. They have embraced island life, from the hired help (the delightful Cee-Cee) to the sailing life. It'
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  • |genre=General Fiction ...it of travel thrown in) is your thing, take a look at [[Notes from a Small Island by Bill Bryson]]. I must also suggest [[A Year in Provence by Peter Mayle]
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  • ...the daughter of Queen Guinevere and the King, born in secret on the misty island. She understands that in order to fulfil the prophecy and bring her father [[Category:Historical Fiction]]
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  • |genre=General Fiction ...life. It becomes apparent that Sebastian is a huge fan of shows like Love Island; it's fueled what has become an obsession, and he has few boundaries in thi
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  • |genre=General Fiction ...in the Merde by Stephen Clarke|A Year In The Merde]], [[Notes from a Small Island by Bill Bryson]] and [[A Year in Provence by Peter Mayle]]. If you have do
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  • ...and now work for a marvellous charity called Citizens Advice. But writing fiction is such a joy and I have so many ideas I'd love to pursue that, were the op ...reading at the moment - and which book would you want with you on a desert island?'''
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  • |genre=Science Fiction ...one composed of wraiths. But the self-contained saga of what was on that island, and what people want with it, and what they're prepared to do to each othe
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  • |genre=General Fiction ...ting Arrangements'', there's plenty of that going on. Set in a New England island called Waskeke, Winn Van Meter's eldest daughter, Daphne, who is already he
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  • |genre=Historical Fiction The first section ''Islands'' concentrates on the island of Mauritius and of a family's rather arduous journey to visit a shrine - D
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  • |genre=General Fiction ...Because I learn this way, I do wonder about people who profess not to read fiction. I wonder how much of the truth of how the world really is passes them by
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  • |genre=General Fiction Marina, in her eighties, is about to head out to Drake Island, where her son has his Dacha... for her granddaughter's wedding. "There is
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  • ...criminal underworld were often more chilling and more eye-opening than the fiction I was trying to put together. Some of the things I was told were more akin ...BB: Which three books have influenced you most? What would be your desert island book?'''
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  • ...however, shows a vintage that subverts the logic of the usual, more modern fiction for the young. For one thing, we really don't get any character for the th [[Five on a Treasure Island - Famous Five by Enid Blyton]] is another chance to look back at Blyton –
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  • |genre=Women's Fiction ...rfect by Delia Franklin]] but we weren't very impressed. [[Coming Home to Island House by Erica James]] would be a better choice.
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  • |publisher=Little Island .... I would recommend it to any girl, whether she's interested in historical fiction or not, from the age of 11 upwards.
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  • |genre=General Fiction Rita Mae Jones lives with her parents, Clara and Larry, on Las Focas, a tiny island off the coast of California, where her father works in the prison. Rita is
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  • |genre=Literary Fiction ...still broken by Lars. I warmed most to Sara who has survived on the barren island since the death of her husband and who never quite believes in Lars:
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  • |genre=General Fiction Along the same lines you might like to try [[Notes from a Small Island by Bill Bryson]], for the sake of a fully rounded experience, [[A Year in P
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  • Meet Mister Bigelow. He's elderly, living alone on Long Island, New York, with some health problems but more than enough family and friend ...ok at [[A Secret Madness by Elaine Bass]]. There's some particularly good fiction about the nineteen fifties, such as [[The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishig
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  • |genre=Literary Fiction ...of hard lives lived on far-flung corner, this peninsular that is almost an island, with nothing between it and the Arctic, that kept me entranced.
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  • ...re concerned, his previous two (''The English Monster'' and ''The Poisoned Island'') have given him a reputation as an expert manipulator of crime tinted wit [[Category:Historical Fiction]]
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  • |genre=Literary Fiction Meanwhile, Whistler has a secret arson club that meets on 'Alcatraz', an island in the middle of a local lake. At first, Lucia only supports the ''idea'' o
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  • |genre=Literary Fiction ...nse, as in these two examples: '[Nora] and her mom had been stranded on an island, the tropic of cancer with its thickets of growth' and 'There was Hannah Po
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  • ...ately plausible history. There is a fine line between 'peddling historical fiction' and preserving the earliest foundation myths of the nation. ...in Britain rebelled against the Roman Emperor Constantine II, 'taking the island out of the Roman Empire for good'. (Was this the first Brexit, over 1500 ye
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  • |genre=General Fiction ...reds of miles north to a new and hopefully happy life on a remote Scottish island. We get a peek at the personalities of the children straight away: Alba is
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  • |genre=General Fiction ...d journey into the Jamaican country that completely evokes an image of the island. Ironically, it was only when I read this that I felt that I'd lacked that
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  • ...eople the money belongs to won't let the trail go cold. The tiny Caribbean island of Saint Mark's seems a safe bet, but that's reckoning without the unexpect ...author Patrick Quinlan is a writer who weaves together elements of ''Pulp Fiction'', ''Kill Bill'' and ''Get Shorty''. He is certainly a writer who is doing
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  • |genre=Women's Fiction ...in, accompanied by their respective spouses. To the uninformed, Manhattan island is about the size of my handbag.
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  • * '''BB: If we were playing a sort of Desert Island Dialogue, what would you pick as you Top 5 words?''' * '''BB: Who are your favourite authors, either fiction or non-fiction?'''
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  • ...re and watch co-operating countries' organisations slug it out with ''Pulp Fiction'' (the movie) type violence. (Museums and caves appear to be places to avo ...s lit an urge for more about Napoleon, we also recommend [[Napoleon's Last Island by Thomas Keneally]]. If you're already a fan of EM and more a thriller th
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  • .... Readers are, I suspect, quite varied but with a preference for literary fiction, perhaps, and novels involving mysteries or problems that need to be solved * '''BB: What would be your desert island book?'''
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  • |genre=Literary Fiction ...of the time not a lot happens - but always spookily. Set on the Norwegian island of Kvaløya in the Arctic Circle, the story is narrated by Liv who is now 2
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  • ...se called "The Road To Reality". This would be my one book for that desert island. ...ry to "Setting The Record Straight". I would also like to write historical fiction if time permits.
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  • |genre=General Fiction ...ome... a place where her immigrant Cuban grandmother tried to recreate her island paradise... a place which later, under her aunt's tenure, became a home for
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  • ...d two gap year novels recently, [[In the Trees by Pauline Fisk]] and [[The Island by Sarah Singleton]]. They're very different books, but they're both great. Our book of the month in fiction is [[Revenge of the Mooncake Vixen: A Manifesto in 41 Tales by Marilyn Chin
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  • ...ag.co.uk/ Scoop] will offer an inspiring mix of short stories, poetry, non-fiction features, comic strips and activities. It will feature some of the very bes In fiction, Sue fell in love with [[Harmony by Carolyn Parkhurst]], the story of how a
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  • |genre=Literary Fiction ...dnight's Children by Salman Rushdie]]. You might also enjoy [[Desolation Island by Adolfo Garcia Ortega]].
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  • ...the Arctic by Sara Wheeler|The Magnetic North]] by Sara Wheeler, and [[The Island That Dared: Journeys in Cuba by Dervla Murphy]].
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  • |genre=General Fiction ...nimportant and I didn’t get much of a sense of the differences between our island and theirs other than the reversal in seasons. The author has lived in both
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  • |genre=General Fiction ...e imagery in this novel, intersecting the German wartime occupation of the island, the Afghan resistance to the Russians in the 1980s and present-day conflic
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  • ...s. 1800 people drowned in the darkness. The Sultana had just passed Sunken Island 42. ...ore books: some humorous non-fiction like 42, and at least one serious non-fiction title. I’ll start tomorrow.
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  • |genre=Women's Fiction After escaping a disastrous marriage, Katherine Walsh travels to an island retreat in Wales in order to pick up the pieces of her life, relax and deci
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  • |genre=Historical Fiction ...but storm clouds are hanging over them - and the rest of the world - as an island off the coast of America gathers prominence.
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  • * '''BB: If you could only take three books to a desert island, which would they be?''' ...ort the Dictatorial regime. I’m also flirting with short stories and flash fiction ones in the meantime.
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  • ...as a great [https://www.waterstones.com/blog/fall-in-love-with-young-adult-fiction?utm_source=WS_TheOriginals&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=august2016twitte In fiction, we have two books featuring East Asians in America for you. Very different
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  • |genre=Literary Fiction ...mething about the major characters of this unusual novel reminds me of the island-like status in which McRobie appears to place poetry . They all remain disc
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  • ...ing on the Burma Death Railway during World War II is a new classic of war fiction. And isn't he a lovely guy? ...it attracts attention for its scope alone. The story transcends the small island and its protagonists. It is the classic and ever tragic tale of a wealthy a
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  • ...put off reading in the past. I also see adults – those who understand that fiction about younger people is often as entertaining as the stuff in the adult mar ..., given the chance. We were constantly annoyed at not being represented in fiction. Nowadays, although things are better, that lack of representation still ho
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  • * '''BB: Where and how do you write? How did you learn to write fiction?''' * '''BB: What would be your desert island book?'''
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  • |genre=Literary Fiction ...set on American frontiers, take on [[Canada by Richard Ford]] or [[Caribou Island by David Vann]]. For a lighter read, try [[Devil's Cut by J R Ward]].
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  • ...st. It is the kind of estate much beloved by writers in the golden age of fiction: a manor house, a village where everyone knows everyone else, nosy postmast
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  • ...t when the Council Watch lays a trap to end the wrecking, they capture the island's leader and Mira's father. Desperate to save him from death, Mira makes a |genre=Historical Fiction
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  • |genre=Literary Fiction Coldbarrow, was an island – just off the coast, crossable to at low tide – if you follow the post
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  • ...at a dinner party who said that the current vogue was to write historical fiction through different periods. I immediately realised that a novel about a Rena ...e you reading at the moment? Which three books would you take to a desert island?'''
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  • |genre=Literary Fiction ...was a small war zone. In escalating tension prior to the Suez crisis, the island was a strategically important bridgehead for British forces in a possible f
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  • * '''BB: What would be your desert island book?''' I am definitely feeling the need to publish another book. More narrative non-fiction because people are demanding a sequel! Although, I think I'm going to pass
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  • ...creatures? The answer, in this amazingly fun book, is to a lush, tropical island. It’s full of friendly creatures and wondrous green foliage like none the ...'s books are the last place left that the surreal can thrive. Whilst adult fiction is dominated by the gritty and realistic, children still get the chance to
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  • That’s the point where (as with all detective fiction) you have to bite your tongue and refrain from saying ''Oh, come on! Don't ...able jaunt through the badlands of the Camorra, which reach far beyond the island of their birth.
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  • |genre=Literary Fiction ...with his father - an eccentric man to say the least - on a remote Scottish island. Frank is not your run-of-the mill adolescent; he announces from the outset
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  • ...he couple jobs with the party to ease some of the heat, but in this sultry island country, it remains the kind of heat forcing you out of the kitchen… ...has clearly fought to be a strong young woman. Perhaps too strong for the island, however – for every Wonder Woman origin story has her quickly leaving ho
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  • '''Shortlisted for the Waterstones Children's Book Prize 2016: Younger Fiction''' ...it]] and [[:Category:Frances Hodgson Burnett|F.H. Burnett]], the detective fiction of [[:Category:Agatha Christie|Agatha Christie]] and Carolyn Keene, the Vic
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  • ...y Heart Used to Beat by Sebastian Faulks]].In the early 1980’s, on a small island off the South of France, a Doctor named Robert Hendricks confronts his life In non-fiction, John thinks you should take a look at [[Frost: That Was The Life That Was:
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  • In fiction, Sean has a new fantasy author he'd like to point you towards. One hundred In non-fiction, John has something for fans of historical biography. Generally known durin
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  • |genre=Science Fiction ...robbery of a bank. Problem is: that bank is located in the citadel on the Island of Valiant Dreams that floats above the Lake of the Lost in the foothills o
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  • ...m. I wrote my masters dissertation on her books. I went to Prince Edward Island, Canada, for a conference about her works. I came back with a bottle of re [[Category:General Fiction]]
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  • ...om business to authorship, it was from fact; most of the time at least, to fiction. I'm still involved on a part-time basis with a couple of financial enterpr * '''BB: What are you reading at the moment? If you had one book on a desert island, what would it be?'''
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  • ''From California to the New York Island''' <br> [[Category:Children's Non-Fiction]]
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  • |genre=Literary Fiction ...is a quiet boy. Named for Jim Hawkins, the cabin-boy narrator of Treasure Island. CliffsNotes character analysis of that other Jim tell us he ''is a smart,
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  • ...alked directly to Declan in Silenced - it's so rare to see it used in teen fiction. Did you always know that you wanted to write it like that?''' ...e lead character joining a conservationist group/cult on a remote Scottish island. Consequently I've been trying to avoid reading the papers or watching the
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  • |genre=General Fiction ...the old Scottish language ''that had words for this little bit of a small island, this land of rain and clouds and shafts of poetry'' which I loved, and als
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  • ...c>Expert, full book reviews from most walks of literary life; fiction, non-fiction, children's books & self-published books plus author interviews & top tens. |genre=Science Fiction
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  • ...e of the way that everyone talks about including minorities in young adult fiction these days. I mean, sure, the Welsh doesn't ''''seem'' like a minority to m * '''BB: What would be your desert island book? '''
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  • |summary=This is a dyslexia-friendly, science fiction novella for young adults. It tells the tale of Hugo, an unwanted and rather ...y, about the circus owned by a tiger and whether it would ever come to her island and secondly, about a magical ice cream made from the berries of the Gongal
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  • ...id Blyton|Enid Blyton]] fan (particularly ''The Enchanted Wood'' and [[The Island of Surprises (New Adventures of the Wishing Chair) by Enid Blyton|The Wishi If people don't pay attention to children's writing as much as adult fiction, more fool them. They are the ones that are missing out. A lot of people ar
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  • |genre=Literary Fiction ...ection – it's the most rounded, but also has the Jansson trademarks of the island, the water, the weather being at once dangerous and also comforting, the bl
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  • ...d anthropology, a sense of history, a taste and wish for destiny. Science fiction is forward-looking and so I write to seek an optimistic, successful future, The target market for historical fiction is not altogether different. People who read and know about actual events
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  • ...s extremely consoling. Anyway, most autobiographies are a kind of elevated fiction. I tried to emulate Ransome’s oblique “inconsequential” prose style a ...im to be surprisingly naïve). This complicated, tormented character – half fiction half fact – is the inspiration for the person who grew up to be the Lucy
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  • ...s of Gosport after the idyll of her white cottage and her young son on the island of Kos. But she's back with a purpose. Her Eddie is dead, and she knows who One of Hampson's strengths is to mix the fact with the fiction. For the 40-something reader there are names that resonate from half-forgot
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  • ...d. He also wrote brilliant children's adventure stories such as ''Treasure Island'' and ''Kidnapped'', but, again, he did not restrict himself to prose writi ...ure of poetry, nature and travel pieces, and excerpts from longer works of fiction. Felicity Trotman, a freelance editor and member of the English Civil War S
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  • |genre=Literary Fiction ...'self-determination'. Actually they were fighting for the right to rid the island of, first the British, and then the Turks, so that they could self-determin
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  • ...passionate Scots in favour of independence signing up to the Walter Scott fiction, adopting the tartan and the Scots Gaelic in places where they'd never been
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  • ...re it not for the pesky US Government occupying Ringrock, the neighbouring island and perpetrating all manner of mischief in the name of science and quite po |genre=Historical Fiction
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  • ...going to be accidents with our new tools. We'll have a biotech Three Mile Island and a nanotech 9/11 I don't doubt. People are going to die. The question is MS: Well, Larry Niven (the science fiction author) said “The dinosaurs became extinct because they didn't have a spa
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  • |title=Nowhere Island ...ag of belongings – but that someone lives with his brother in a camp on an island between the two directions of a motorway, a place inaccessible and definite
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  • ...e full length novels, all published between 1929 and 1934. Even his short fiction fizzles out under two dozen and was pretty much complete by the same time. ...tments. He invites the Charles' to spend the weekend at his house on Long Island. He has been receiving warnings or maybe threats from the deliberately shad
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  • ...he couple jobs with the party to ease some of the heat, but in this sultry island country, it remains the kind of heat forcing you out of the kitchen… |genre=Science Fiction
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  • ...he couple jobs with the party to ease some of the heat, but in this sultry island country, it remains the kind of heat forcing you out of the kitchen… ...nd maybe poetic licence has taken over here and there and maybe calling it fiction means that its safer and therefore more people will read it. More people s
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  • ..., chaos whilst tracking a troll, and undertake a grand journey to raid Bad Island with their friends! They get up to all kinds of mischief and naughty behav ...from the Where's Wally? style volume, and taught the explorer about a non-fiction subject as they went a-searching. Well, it seems tweaking the form is going
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  • ...h OUP will appear: ''Cows in the Maze''. I'd like to write another science fiction novel or two, and there are tentative plans for another ''Discworld'' book ...n our 'to do' list. We go to Egypt most years. Last year we visited Easter Island, which was an amazing experience. This year we went to the Galapagos Island
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