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• 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
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• 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!
  4 KB (717 words) - 17:24, 18 February 2018
• 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
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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
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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
  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
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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
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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
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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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