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• Caribou Island by David Vann
  |title=Caribou Island |genre=Literary Fiction
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• On The Island by Tracey Garvis Graves
  |title=On The Island |genre=Women's Fiction
  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
  4 KB (579 words) - 09:14, 2 February 2024
• Silver: Return to Treasure Island by Andrew Motion
  |title=Silver: Return to Treasure Island |genre=Literary Fiction
  5 KB (833 words) - 14:59, 25 September 2020
• The Crabber Stories by Francis Bennett
  ...htful, coming-of-age collection of short stories set on the shores of Long Island in the nineteen-fifties. They work a magic on you and it was a real pleasu ...he once earned and which then stuck - and he grew up on the shores of Long Island in the nineteen-fifties. It was a close-knit community and a time when chi
  3 KB (554 words) - 14:30, 15 March 2018
• Skios by Michael Frayn
  |genre=General Fiction '''Shortlisted for Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction 2013'''
  5 KB (821 words) - 12:11, 5 March 2018
• Everland by Rebecca Hunt
  |genre=General Fiction There have been two expeditions to the Antarctic island of Everland a century apart. The ill-fated 1913 trip of Dinners, Napps and
  4 KB (606 words) - 11:29, 20 February 2018
• Jigsaw by Garry Kilworth
  ...an archaeologist would need a zoologist - or to be on a disappearing coral island at all - but Rambutu is a great guy and Max and Hass think little of it. ...n Time]] and Steve Voake's [[The Starlight Conspiracy]] also blend science fiction, fantasy and magic to marvellous effect.
  4 KB (682 words) - 10:40, 3 April 2018
• Lost and Found by Jacqueline Sheehan
  |genre=General Fiction ...he left her home, her job as a psychologist, her family and moved to Peaks Island off the coast of Maine where she took a job as an animal warden. On the ba
  5 KB (860 words) - 16:08, 7 September 2020
• Stars of Fortune (Guardians Trilogy) by Nora Roberts
  |genre=Women's Fiction ...famous five…err… six… for grown-ups in this fantasy/romance set on a Greek island against powers of evil. Possibly cheesy but for fans of cheesy it's an exc
  4 KB (643 words) - 13:50, 19 February 2018
• Escape from Silk Cotton Forest (Island Fiction) by Francis C Escayg
  |title= Escape from Silk Cotton Forest (Island Fiction) ...tula Tide by Sharon Tregenza]] leads the way in showing how small, insular island locales can lead to novel magic in a fully rounded way.
  3 KB (563 words) - 15:28, 4 April 2018
• Whisky Galore by Sir Compton Mackenzie
  ...hortened it) wrote ''Whisky Galore'' in 1946 as a tribute to the Hebridian island of Barra where he lived prior to moving to southeast England two years befo ...is partially accepted but he still has power over the previously enclosed island community that they resent and resist. This is even more evident in the ca
  5 KB (761 words) - 12:31, 23 March 2018
• The Summer Book by Tove Jansson
  |genre=Literary Fiction An island in the Gulf of Finland.
  9 KB (1,563 words) - 11:14, 29 March 2024

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