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  • ...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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  • |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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  • |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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  • ...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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  • |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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  • |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
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  • 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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  • |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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  • |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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  • ...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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  • ...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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  • |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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  • |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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  • |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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  • |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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  • |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 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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  • |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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  • ...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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  • |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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  • |title=Caribou Island |genre=Literary Fiction
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  • |title=On The Island |genre=Women's Fiction
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  • ...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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  • |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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  • ...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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  • |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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  • |genre=Literary Fiction '''Shortlisted for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize 2015'''
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  • |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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  • |genre=Women's Fiction On the island of Nantucket, four couples have forged strong bonds of friendship. Together
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  • |genre=General Fiction |genre=Literary Fiction
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  • |title=Silver: Return to Treasure Island |genre=Literary Fiction
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  • ...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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  • |genre=General Fiction '''Shortlisted for Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction 2013'''
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  • |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
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  • ...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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  • |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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  • |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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  • |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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  • ...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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  • |genre=Literary Fiction An island in the Gulf of Finland.
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  • |title=The Mystery of the Venus Island Fetish |sort=Mystery of the Venus Island Fetish
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  • |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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  • 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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  • |genre=Literary Fiction |summary=Much, much more than an engaging piece of historical fiction. Highly recommended.
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  • |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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  • |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
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  • |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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  • |genre=General Fiction |genre=Literary Fiction
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  • |genre=Science Fiction ...e down. 'Koko takes a Holiday' is action-packed and humorous pulp science fiction at its best.
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  • ...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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  • Do you remember your first foray into adult fiction? We certainly do. There's a whole world of grown up books out there just wa |genre=General Fiction
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  • |genre=Literary Fiction |summary=That rare thing - literary fiction that is highly readable. Set mostly in Victorian Glasgow, telling one side
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  • |genre=Women's Fiction ...from his travels in America with a new bride, a former showgirl from Coney Island. Beatrice is captivatingly beautiful and as such, becomes quite the focus
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  • |genre=General Fiction ...re she was born, until the war was over. German soldiers had occupied the island and whilst they were there it would not be home to her, her mother and sist
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  • |genre=Literary Fiction |title=Satin Island
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  • |title=Island on Fire: The extraordinary story of Laki, the volcano that turned eighteent ''Island on Fire'' was the perfect book for me. Laki erupted in 1783 and Alexandra
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  • |genre=General Fiction When Dan Byrne's wife died suddenly he took refuge on an island near Stockholm and worked quietly at home as a translator, needing little i
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  • |genre=General Fiction ...ure escapism, set in a beautiful location; the coast of a remote Tasmanian island. The plot is fast-paced and the characters well drawn and likeable. As the
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  • |genre=Historical Fiction ...ain that Ericsson was building a base for U-boats at Hurricane Hole on Hog Island. The problem was what to do about it. The Governor of the Bahamas was the
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  • ...melia whose presence is a mystery. We follow the group as they explore the island, and each other's histories and it becomes clear that they all have a dark [[Category:Dystopian Fiction]]
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  • |genre=Literary Fiction ...he family chapel on the lake's island. It used to be in the middle of the island, central but became side-lined to one end by erosion.
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  • |title=Holy Island: A DCI Ryan Mystery ...lly dawns on Ryan that isn't going to help at all: the murderer must be an island resident. Not something that will endear Ryan to the locals!
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  • |title=An Island of Our Own |sort=Island of Our Own, An
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  • |genre=Literary Fiction |genre=Literary Fiction
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  • |genre=General Fiction Alexis was inspired by ''Treasure Island'' and this does ring true throughout the story, with Tancred's journey bese
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  • ...talent for playing the violin. One day, he will play the special violin of island legend, but for now, Conan's fiddle sits high on a shelf waiting for him. ...more|Ingo]] series. It's absolutely unforgettable. For more classy mermaid fiction, you could also look at [[Selina Penaluna by Jan Page]], a lyrical book in
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  • |genre=General Fiction ...And the common factor linking them all together - cannibalism in a remote island.
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  • |genre=General Fiction ...and family due to addictions, he may find himself in a park rather than an island but the allegorical meaning goes along the same lines.
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  • |genre=Science Fiction ...nd Kevin J Anderson’s latest novel ''The Martian War''. Blending fact with fiction, the author’s obvious love of Wells' cannon shines though in this elegant
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  • |genre= Literary Fiction ...two rulers come together, all the eyes of the world turn towards the small island, wondering which path fate will be led down.
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  • ...e been through together, how can this be happening? Is there anyone on the island who Jemma can trust? And above all - where has her husband gone? [[Category:General Fiction]]
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  • |genre=Literary Fiction ...lder sister Ossie is in love with a ghost. They have grown up on a Florida island theme park with their parents, their grandfather and their big brother Kiwi
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  • '''Shortlisted for Waterstone's Best Fiction for 5-12s 2014''' ...gest food company, which has gradually taken over the running of the whole Island, including schools, hospitals and eventually the government itself.
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  • ...eir books with genuinely heroic characters. People who love their science-fiction and want to find something new to add to their list of favourite books or t ...se it is about science, history, politics and economics and although it is fiction, I wanted to be as accurate as possible with the facts behind the story. T
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  • |genre=Women's Fiction ...urther afield for new affordable accommodation and finds a neglected tidal island in Cornwall connected by a causeway to the mainland. In the harbour, there
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  • |genre= Women's Fiction ...where we had been bound in holy(ish) matrimony to the hot sunny Caribbean island where we would moon, in a sweet, honeyed fashion, for a further week, I pic
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  • ...f Thrones'' but it's probably as much a fantasy trilogy as it is a science fiction trilogy. I didn't mean it to be so awkward but I quite like that it is. * '''BB: What would be your desert island book?'''
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  • |genre=General Fiction ...ler about two American couples who take a holiday together to the Sicilian island of Siracusa. Shifting between the perspectives of the four main characters,
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  • |genre=General Fiction ...Bick]] touches on the same themes, and is a brilliant read, as is [[On The Island by Tracey Garvis Graves]]
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  • |genre=General Fiction |summary=A 40 year old retired soldier posted as consul on a small island seeks to impress a young boy he wants to father. Deeper, more considered a
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  • A WW2 naval soldier, guarding a prison island for those found guilty at court-martials, is forced to wonder if he is winn ...nding in the Pacific is quite educative, and gives a different tint to war fiction, being away from the European theatre us in the UK read about and learn abo
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  • |genre=Children's Non-Fiction ...cts that will encourage children to find out more. This is children's non-fiction at its very best, inspiring, informative and beautiful.
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  • |title= Leonce Gaiter Talks To Bookbag About Why Men Are Only 20% of all Fiction Readers '''Why Men Opt Out of the (Women’s) Fiction World'''
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  • |genre=Literary Fiction ...sland' were put to Oskar I suspect he would immediately declare himself an island. He's brilliant and controversial. A heady mix. Some would say a lethal
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  • |genre=Children's Non-Fiction Further reading [[Minecraft: The Island by Max Brooks]] is a perfect companion to this book as is [[Minecraft Guide
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  • ...ly a thriller of two halves, as one plods but the other visits other crime fiction scenes in Europe. We are used to Vargas books being wholly enjoyable, howe ...d) point to a hushed-up murder and rape on a remote and isolated Icelandic island ten years previously, but Adamsberg and his team will soon be working on th
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  • |genre=Literary Fiction |summary=Speculative fiction focusing on North Korea's invasion of Japan in 2011.
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  • |genre=Women's Fiction ...nds herself back in his arms, planning to start a new life together on the island. But as they start to renovate their beautiful new home in the mountain to
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  • |genre=Literary Fiction ...are immediately left hanging as we're transported back thirty years to an island still called Ceylon, where a young half-Tamil, half-Singhalese girl called
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  • |genre=General Fiction ...way to an area of France synonymous with devastation and a remote Scottish island loaded with secrets.
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  • |genre=Literary Fiction ...that it is to pay for the school fees post-redundancy, but he settles into island life too fully for that to be the whole story. When his wife and daughter
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  • ...at you're now a content writer. How difficult was it to switch to writing fiction, and which discipline do you like best?''' HG: I think fiction is unquestionably the most difficult medium of writing. You're trying to co
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  • |genre=Literary Fiction ...'Hello Kitty' bag washed up on the shore of Whaletown, the small Canadian island that she and her husband Oliver call home. As Ruth opens it and begins rea
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  • |genre=General Fiction ..., ''Father's Day'' weaves together the story of Harvey's childhood on Long Island, and her life as a young woman in Paris.
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  • ...re. In the second half of this book it causes a journalistic piece of non-fiction as he takes a look at Pacific islanders who used man-sized stone discs as c ...tures in a plain 3x3 grid is enlivened by the way he can dash from fact to fiction to fantasy and back again, all on one page. I noted bits of this that coul
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  • |genre=General Fiction Growing up on Long Island, Shelby Richmond is an ordinary girl until one night an extraordinary trage
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  • ...unusual story about an American boy who finds himself on a remote Scottish island in the middle of a clan conflict. It's easy to read, but with several layer ...r great books for children. I am very honoured to have written their first fiction title.
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  • |genre=Literary Fiction ...writes unflinchingly of the beauty and the hypocrisy and corruption of the island.
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  • |genre=Historical Fiction |summary=Newsnight/The Review Show's Kirsty Wark can write fiction and this is the book that proves it. The lives of three women from three g
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  • |genre=Historical Fiction ...rla hasn't seen since the day of his birth) is rumoured to be on Malta, an island currently being threatened by 30,000 Turks and defended by a tenth of that
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