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• Top Ten Adult Books That Teens Should Read
  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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• Gillespie and I by Jane Harris
  |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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• Angel of Brooklyn by Janette Jenkins
  |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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• Ariadne's Thread by Gavin James
  |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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• Man Booker Prize 2015
  |genre=Literary Fiction |title=Satin Island
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• Island on Fire: The extraordinary story of Laki, the volcano that turned eighteenth-century Europe dark by Alexandra Witze and Jeff Kanipe
  |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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• In the Name of Love by Patrick Smith
  |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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• A Single Breath by Lucy Clarke
  |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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• Hurricane Hole by John Kerr
  |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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• The Last Resort by Susi Holliday
  ...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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• Black Lake by Johanna Lane
  |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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• Holy Island: A DCI Ryan Mystery by L J Ross
  |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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• An Island of Our Own by Sally Nicholls
  |title=An Island of Our Own |sort=Island of Our Own, An
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• Top Ten War Novels
  |genre=Literary Fiction |genre=Literary Fiction
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• The Hidden Keys by Andre Alexis
  |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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• The Ingo Chronicles: Stormswept by Helen Dunmore
  ...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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• Savage Blood by Alex Chance
  |genre=General Fiction ...And the common factor linking them all together - cannibalism in a remote island.
  4 KB (600 words) - 15:05, 18 March 2018
• Wild Life by Liam Brown
  |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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• The Martian War by Kevin J Anderson
  |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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• House of Odysseus by Claire North
  |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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• The Honeymoon by Tina Seskis
  ...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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• Swamplandia! by Karen Russell
  |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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• The Last Wild by Piers Torday
  '''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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• The Interview: Bookbag Talks To Stephen Mark Norman
  ...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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• Little Beach Street Bakery by Jenny Colgan
  |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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• Honeymoon Suite by Wendy Holden
  |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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• The Interview: Bookbag Talks To SJ Griffin
  ...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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• Siracusa by Delia Ephron
  |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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• The Headmaster's Wife by Thomas Christopher Greene
  |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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• Tigerman by Nick Harkaway
  |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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• The Suicide Run by William Styron
  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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• Lots – The Diversity of Life on Earth by Nicola Davies and Emily Sutton
  |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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• Leonce Gaiter Talks To Bookbag About Why Men Are Only 20% of all Fiction Readers
  |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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• Dark Matter by Juli Zeh
  |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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• Minecraft Guide to Creative: An Official Minecraft Book From Mojang by Mojang AB
  |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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• A Climate of Fear by Fred Vargas and Sian Reynolds (translator)
  ...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
  4 KB (698 words) - 08:31, 19 September 2020
• From The Fatherland, With Love by Ryu Murakami
  |genre=Literary Fiction |summary=Speculative fiction focusing on North Korea's invasion of Japan in 2011.
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• The Final Hitch by Samantha Scott-Jeffries
  |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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• Brixton Beach by Roma Tearne
  |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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• The Sixteen Trees of the Somme by Lars Mytting and Paul Russell Grant (Translator)
  |genre=General Fiction ...way to an area of France synonymous with devastation and a remote Scottish island loaded with secrets.
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• A Kind of Eden by Amanda Smyth
  |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
  6 KB (987 words) - 14:15, 24 March 2018
• The Interview: Bookbag Talks To Hugo Driscoll
  ...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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• A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki
  |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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• Father's Day by Simon Van Booy
  |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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• The Lovely Horrible Stuff by Eddie Campbell
  ...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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• Faithful by Alice Hoffman
  |genre=General Fiction Growing up on Long Island, Shelby Richmond is an ordinary girl until one night an extraordinary trage
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• The Interview: Bookbag Talks To Ken Howard
  ...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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• Beautiful Place by Amanthi Harris
  |genre=Literary Fiction ...writes unflinchingly of the beauty and the hypocrisy and corruption of the island.
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• The Legacy of Elizabeth Pringle by Kirsty Wark
  |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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• The Religion by Tim Willocks
  |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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