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  • The House at the Edge of Night by Catherine Banner
    |genre=General Fiction ...h love, loss and reconciliation in this epic family saga set on a Sicilian island.
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  • Time Swimmer (Island Fiction) by Gerald Hausman
    |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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  • Napoleon's Last Island by Thomas Keneally
    |title=Napoleon's Last Island |genre=Literary Fiction
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  • The Forsaken by Lisa Stasse
    ...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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  • Mr Peacock's Possessions by Lydia Syson
    |genre=Historical Fiction ...g tale of dark secrets and unforgiveable crimes against the backdrop of an Island paradise.
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  • The Island of Sheep (John Hannay) by John Buchan
    |title=The Island of Sheep (John Hannay) |sort= Island of Sheep (John Hannay)
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  • Coastliners by Joanne Harris
    |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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  • The Island by M A Bennett
    |title= The Island |sort= Island
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  • The Legend of the Swan Children (Island Fiction) by Maureen Marks-Mendonca
    |title=The Legend of the Swan Children (Island Fiction) |sort=Legend of the Swan Children (Island Fiction)
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  • The Chalice Project (Island Fiction) by Lisa Allen-Agostini
    |title=The Chalice Project (Island Fiction) |sort=Chalice Project (Island Fiction)
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  • The New World by Andrew Motion
    |genre=Historical Fiction |summary=Poet Andrew Motion continues the story of Treasure Island, as the children of the original characters explore America.
    4 KB (628 words) - 08:51, 22 March 2018
  • Satin Island by Tom McCarthy
    |title=Satin Island |genre=Literary Fiction
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  • The Island at the End of Everything by Kiran Millwood Hargrave
    |title= The Island at the End of Everything |sort= Island at the End of Everything
    4 KB (635 words) - 10:04, 11 March 2018
  • The Prisoner of Paradise by Romesh Gunesekera
    |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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  • Kiss Heaven Goodbye by Tasmina Perry
    |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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  • Stranded by Emily Barr
    ...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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  • Castle of Water by Dane Huckelbridge
    |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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  • Snake Ropes by Jess Richards
    |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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  • Nation by Terry Pratchett
    ...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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  • The Godless Boys by Naomi Wood
    |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
    3 KB (596 words) - 15:14, 16 March 2018
  • Island of Wings by Karin Altenberg
    |title=Island of Wings |genre=Historical Fiction
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  • Stern Men by Elizabeth Gilbert
    |genre=General Fiction |summary= Ruth returns to her Maine island home, where neighbouring lobster fishermen have fought for generations. I d
    4 KB (625 words) - 12:05, 19 March 2018
  • Desolation Island by Adolfo Garcia Ortega
    |title=Desolation Island |genre=Literary Fiction
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  • The Girls of Summer by Katie Bishop
    |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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  • The Philosopher Kings by Jo Walton
    |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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  • The Island at the End of the World by Sam Taylor
    |title=The Island at the End of the World |genre=Literary Fiction
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  • Breaking Light by Karin Altenberg
    |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
    4 KB (661 words) - 14:15, 23 March 2018
  • Sweet Salt Air by Barbara Delinsky
    |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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  • Hippy Chick by Louise Harwood
    |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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  • Take Back the Skies by Lucy Saxon
    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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  • The Last Anniversary by Liane Moriarty
    |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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  • Coconut Chaos by Diana Souhami
    |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
    4 KB (651 words) - 12:33, 22 February 2018
  • Wall of Days by Alastair Bruce
    |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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  • The Three Day Rule by Emlyn Rees and Josie Lloyd
    |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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  • The Brides of Rollrock Island by Margo Lanagan
    |title=The Brides of Rollrock Island |sort=Brides of Rollrock Island
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  • When The Sky Fell Apart by Caroline Lea
    |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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  • Delroy in the Marog Kingdom (Island Fiction) by Billy Elm
    |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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  • Jeff Somers' Avery Cates Series in Chronological Order
    {{amazonurl|isbn=B017WDM2JO|title=The Iron Island}} (short story, 2015) [[Category:Lists]] [[Category:Science Fiction]] [[Category:Jeff Somers]]
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  • City of Screams by John Brindley
    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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  • A Dog Like Lloyd by Jacqueline Sheehan
    |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
    3 KB (581 words) - 12:31, 16 March 2018
  • In the Beginning Was the Sea by Tomas Gonzalez
    |genre=General Fiction '''Shortlisted for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize 2015'''
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  • Lifegame by Alison Allen-Gray
    ...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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  • The Cousins by Karen M McManus
    |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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  • Without You by Saskia Sarginson
    |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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  • Dangerous Waters: Mystery, Loss and Love on the Island of Guernsey by Anne Allen
    |title=Dangerous Waters: Mystery, Loss and Love on the Island of Guernsey |genre=Women's Fiction
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  • The Girl of Ink and Stars by Kiran Millwood Hargrave
    ...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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  • Hearts of Stone by Simon Scarrow
    |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
    4 KB (745 words) - 11:49, 21 March 2018
  • Coming Home to Island House by Erica James
    |title=Coming Home to Island House |genre=Women's Fiction
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  • Where my Heart Used to Beat by Sebastian Faulks
    |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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  • Our Sister, Again by Sophie Cameron
    ...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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  • Fragments by Dan Wells
    ...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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  • Behold A Fair Woman by Francis Duncan
    |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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  • The Beach by Alex Garland
    |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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  • The Waking World (The Future King) by Tom Huddleston
    ...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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  • After The Honeymoon by Janey Fraser
    |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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  • Goat Mountain by David Vann
    |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
    3 KB (584 words) - 11:16, 31 August 2020
  • Simon Packham Talks To Bookbag About ''Firewallers''
    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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  • Mister Pip by Lloyd Jones
    |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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  • Here's To Us by Elin Hilderbrand
    |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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  • Really Weird Removals.Com by Daniela Sacerdoti
    ...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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  • 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,
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  • 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.
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  • 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
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  • 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
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  • 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
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  • 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
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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
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  • 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]].
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  • 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
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  • 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
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  • 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
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  • By Night The Mountain Burns by Juan Tomas Avila Laurel
    |genre=Literary Fiction '''Shortlisted for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize 2015'''
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  • 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
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  • 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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  • Silver: Return to Treasure Island by Andrew Motion
    |title=Silver: Return to Treasure Island |genre=Literary Fiction
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  • 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
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  • Skios by Michael Frayn
    |genre=General Fiction '''Shortlisted for Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction 2013'''
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  • 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.
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  • 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
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  • 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
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  • 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.
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  • 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
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  • The Summer Book by Tove Jansson
    |genre=Literary Fiction An island in the Gulf of Finland.
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  • The Mystery of the Venus Island Fetish by Dido Butterworth and Tim Flannery
    |title=The Mystery of the Venus Island Fetish |sort=Mystery of the Venus Island Fetish
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  • Minecraft Guide to Exploration: An official Minecraft book from Mojang by Mojang AB
    |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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  • The Lighthouse by P D James
    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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  • Golden Hill by Francis Spufford
    |genre=Literary Fiction |summary=Much, much more than an engaging piece of historical fiction. Highly recommended.
    3 KB (536 words) - 12:21, 24 March 2018
  • The Movement of Stars by Amy Brill
    |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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  • The Sea On Our Skin by Madeleine Tobert
    |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
    5 KB (802 words) - 09:29, 19 March 2018
  • Finding Mother by Anne Allen
    |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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  • Top Ten Books For Your Auntie
    |genre=General Fiction |genre=Literary Fiction
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  • Koko Takes a Holiday by Kieran Shea
    |genre=Science Fiction ...e down. 'Koko takes a Holiday' is action-packed and humorous pulp science fiction at its best.
    4 KB (709 words) - 09:42, 20 August 2020
  • Killer Heat by Linda Fairstein
    ...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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