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• 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
  3 KB (620 words) - 10:03, 20 March 2018
• 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
  4 KB (626 words) - 15:15, 22 April 2018
• 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
  4 KB (617 words) - 10:14, 28 September 2020
• 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
  3 KB (546 words) - 09:51, 18 February 2018
• 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
  4 KB (682 words) - 10:27, 3 February 2024
• 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
  5 KB (865 words) - 08:19, 31 March 2024
• 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
  3 KB (520 words) - 15:56, 24 February 2018
• 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
  4 KB (651 words) - 15:46, 11 March 2018
• 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.
  4 KB (674 words) - 10:30, 1 March 2018
• 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]]
  3 KB (576 words) - 15:08, 12 March 2018
• 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
  3 KB (511 words) - 11:19, 25 February 2018
• 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
  5 KB (787 words) - 11:00, 24 February 2018
• 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
  3 KB (576 words) - 11:37, 25 February 2018
• 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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