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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]]
  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
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• 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
  3 KB (417 words) - 09:15, 23 April 2018
• 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
  4 KB (624 words) - 12:42, 4 April 2018
• 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
  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

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