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• The Interview: Bookbag Talks To Clive Lawton
  ...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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• Bhalla Strand by Sarah Maine
  |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
  4 KB (578 words) - 10:19, 20 February 2018
• The Storied Life of A J Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin
  |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
  4 KB (796 words) - 08:23, 7 August 2020
• Across the Divide by Anne Booth
  ...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
  4 KB (626 words) - 09:12, 26 May 2018
• My Book of Stories: Write Your Own Adventures by Deborah Patterson
  |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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• The City We Became by N K Jemisin
  |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
  5 KB (901 words) - 09:38, 12 February 2020
• The Dying Game by Asa Avdic
  ...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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• White Nights by Ann Cleeves
  ...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
  4 KB (620 words) - 07:51, 12 August 2020
• The Gessami Residence by Jane L Gibson
  |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
  4 KB (625 words) - 12:12, 4 April 2018
• If I Knew You Were Going To Be This Beautiful, I Never Would Have Let You Go by Judy Chicurel
  |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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• Heretics by Leonardo Padura
  ...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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• The Interview: Bookbag Talks To Stephanie Elmas
  * '''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?'''
  7 KB (1,358 words) - 12:49, 14 November 2013
• The Elephant Keepers' Children by Peter Hoeg
  |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
  5 KB (827 words) - 12:36, 16 March 2018
• Top Ten Literary Fiction Books of 2016
  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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• The Interview: Bookbag Talks To Justin Huggler
  ...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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• The Interview: Bookbag Talks To Patricia Watkins
  ...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
  14 KB (2,488 words) - 16:09, 2 February 2013
• The Interview: Bookbag Talks To Linda Gillard
  ...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
  13 KB (2,411 words) - 19:28, 18 November 2009
• The Figurine by Victoria Hislop
  |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)
  4 KB (594 words) - 08:56, 3 April 2024
• May 2015 Newsletter
  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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• Eight Detectives by Alex Pavesi
  ...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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