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• Space Blasters by Philip Caveney
  ...anderthals, and another one from a Bond-style spy movie. Lovers of science fiction will quickly recognise where they are with this book: a princess to rescue, ...in the series, [[Night on Terror Island by Philip Caveney|Night on Terror Island]] and [[Spy Another Day by Philip Caveney|Spy Another Day]]. Read them once
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• The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer
  |genre=General Fiction ...ows of any other books by Charles Lamb. There are no bookshops left on the island, you see, since the Germans left. In passing, Dawsey mentions in his letter
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• The Birthdays by Heidi Pitlor
  |genre=Women's Fiction ...r siblings are all expecting their first children as they converge on Salt Island, Maine for their father's 75th birthday, when a dramatic event shifts the f
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• The Sunrise by Victoria Hislop
  |genre=General Fiction ...e bloody conflict in the 1970s between Greece and Turkey played out on the island. In an eye-opener of a novel, she treats both sides even-handedly even if,
  5 KB (870 words) - 10:47, 9 August 2020
• Guernsey Retreat: The Guernsey Novels Book 3 by Anne Allen
  |genre=Women's Fiction ...'re ''seriously'' easy to read, with some great characters and a brilliant island location which is used to full advantage: you really feel as though you're
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• Dirt by David Vann
  |genre=Literary Fiction ...in a long time. It was followed by [[Caribou Island by David Vann|Caribou Island]] which has a similarly dark theme.
  4 KB (728 words) - 10:02, 24 March 2018
• Illegal by Miriam Halahmy
  Illegal is the second in Miriam Halahmy’s Hayling Island cycle. I haven’t read book 1, Hidden, but it was easy enough to follow th ...he end. I’ll definitely be checking out the other two books in the Hayling Island cycle in the hope that Halamhy’s taut writing style is married with a cen
  3 KB (439 words) - 18:56, 10 April 2018
• Our Young Man by Edmund White
  |genre=LGBT Fiction ...y is taking on the fashion world and fast becoming the darling of the Fire Island's gay community. Fred, Andre and Pierre-Georges are all fixated on Guy, and
  4 KB (610 words) - 15:57, 29 August 2020
• Scramasax: The Viking Sagas, Book Two by Kevin Crossley-Holland
  ...sent by Zoe to pacify the Muslims on Sicily and wrest back control of the island. Hidden amongst the soldiers goes Solveig and for her, this journey will be ...om the court of Miklagard, through life on board a Viking longboat, to the island of Sicily, its mountain people and Islam in the middle ages, Solveig's jour
  3 KB (448 words) - 11:36, 22 March 2018
• The Last Brother by Nathacha Appanah
  |genre=Literary Fiction ...rovides the background to this story of loss and persecution on a tropical island as two boys form the most unlikely of friendships. Gorgeous and sad in equa
  4 KB (756 words) - 14:27, 17 March 2018
• Caribou Island by David Vann
  |title=Caribou Island |genre=Literary Fiction
  3 KB (592 words) - 14:43, 23 March 2018
• On The Island by Tracey Garvis Graves
  |title=On The Island |genre=Women's Fiction
  4 KB (666 words) - 11:53, 25 February 2018
• The Brilliant and Forever by Kevin MacNeil
  ...wed by them as little more than second-class citizens. But everyone on the island – human and alpaca alike – is obsessed with writing, each of them despe If you like intelligent fiction that will make you chuckle, you might enjoy [[Solar by Ian McEwan]].
  3 KB (488 words) - 15:53, 22 March 2018
• According to Arnold: A Novel of Love and Mushrooms by Giles Milton
  |genre=General Fiction ...s passion for mushrooms leads him to become king of a remote South Pacific island and the centre of a major conspiracy. An imaginative and unique read, perf
  4 KB (685 words) - 13:00, 22 September 2020
• The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender by Leslye Walton
  ...real genre-buster so it isn't at all predictable. You get some historical fiction, you get love stories, you get myth and legend and superstition. And you ge ...isappointed. This isn't a genre piece and if you're looking for commercial fiction, you won't find it here in ''Sorrows''. The density of the prose is a chall
  4 KB (612 words) - 15:31, 23 April 2018
• The Devil is White by William Palmer
  |genre=Historical Fiction ...ng under in late Eighteenth Century England, have an idea of claiming this island as a kind of Utopia where there are no slaves and everyone lives in comfort
  5 KB (822 words) - 14:27, 22 February 2018
• By Night The Mountain Burns by Juan Tomas Avila Laurel
  |genre=Literary Fiction '''Shortlisted for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize 2015'''
  5 KB (900 words) - 07:41, 4 September 2020
• Black Rock by Amanda Smyth
  |genre=Women's Fiction ...out from everything on wheels. I particularly enjoyed the loving detail of island life and the clever way new novelist Amanda Smyth caught the lilting rhythm
  4 KB (720 words) - 10:26, 8 August 2020
• The Castaways by Elin Hilderbrand
  |genre=Women's Fiction On the island of Nantucket, four couples have forged strong bonds of friendship. Together
  5 KB (935 words) - 10:13, 4 April 2018
• Richard and Judy Shortlist 2008
  |genre=General Fiction |genre=Literary Fiction
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