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• The Sea, The Sea by Iris Murdoch
  |genre=Literary Fiction ...dnight's Children by Salman Rushdie]]. You might also enjoy [[Desolation Island by Adolfo Garcia Ortega]].
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• Ox Travels by Michael Palin
  ...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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• Hilary and David by Laura Solomon
  |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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• The Return Home by Justin Huggler
  |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
  5 KB (844 words) - 11:31, 19 August 2020
• Top Ten Self-Published Books 2013
  |genre=Historical Fiction |genre=General Fiction
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• The Interview: Bookbag Talks To Peter Gill
  ...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.
  7 KB (1,149 words) - 17:37, 30 April 2011
• The 49th Day by Helen Noble
  |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
  5 KB (832 words) - 14:27, 3 April 2018
• Edge of Eternity (The Century Trilogy) by Ken Follett
  |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.
  5 KB (811 words) - 09:52, 21 March 2018
• The Interview: Bookbag Talks To Konstantina Sozou-Kyrkou
  * '''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.
  6 KB (994 words) - 15:33, 3 February 2015
• August 2016 Newsletter
  ...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
  8 KB (1,332 words) - 13:24, 11 August 2020
• Psalm 119 by Heather McRobie
  |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
  5 KB (897 words) - 15:34, 30 March 2018
• Costa Book Award 2016
  |genre=Literary Fiction |genre=Literary Fiction
  11 KB (1,790 words) - 10:19, 31 January 2024
• October 2014 Newsletter
  ...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
  8 KB (1,334 words) - 15:19, 22 August 2020
• The Interview: Bookbag Talks To Bali Rai
  ...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
  9 KB (1,623 words) - 07:10, 7 October 2020
• The Interview: Bookbag Talks To Nigel McClea
  * '''BB: Where and how do you write? How did you learn to write fiction?''' * '''BB: What would be your desert island book?'''
  6 KB (1,121 words) - 18:05, 2 February 2015
• The Son by Philipp Meyer
  |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]].
  5 KB (854 words) - 10:27, 24 August 2020
• Mystery Mile by Margery Allingham
  ...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
  6 KB (965 words) - 10:41, 6 October 2020
• Newest Fantasy Reviews
  ...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
  15 KB (2,604 words) - 09:13, 18 February 2024
• The Loney by Andrew Michael Hurley
  |genre=Literary Fiction Coldbarrow, was an island – just off the coast, crossable to at low tide – if you follow the post
  8 KB (1,366 words) - 20:40, 11 August 2020
• The Interview: Bookbag Talks To Daniel Peltz
  ...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?'''
  7 KB (1,242 words) - 12:44, 29 May 2018

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