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• The Interview: Bookbag Talks To B C R Fegan
  ...’t grown out of my love for children’s picture books. Sure, I grew into YA fiction (which I also still love) and then fantasy, mysteries, thrillers and even p ...’t grown out of my love for children’s picture books. Sure, I grew into YA fiction (which I also still love) and then fantasy, mysteries, thrillers and even p
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• The True Tale of the Monster Billy Dean by David Almond
  |genre=Literary Fiction ...le room is also the central conceit in [[Room by Emma Donoghue]]. In [[The Island at the End of the World by Sam Taylor]], the central character Finn is also
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• The Interview: Bookbag Talks To Angela Young
  ...used by what was happening outside me. And so, because I have always loved fiction and always read and written, I began to write SPEAKING of LOVE to try to un ...to you? What are you reading at the moment and what would be your desert island book?'''
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• Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
  |genre=Literary Fiction ...s Antoinette's childhood in Jamaica and her honeymoon on a small Caribbean island with her new husband and their domestic servants, and the point of view shi
  3 KB (487 words) - 15:11, 24 February 2018
• Marooned in the Arctic by Peggy Caravantes
  ...ny other 'Eskimo' and four intrepid Westerners, to the uninhabited Wrangel Island, perched off the northern Siberian coast. They were there just to stick a ...allmark volume, for the simple fact that it is dressed as a children's non-fiction title. And boy it opened my eyes a little – if they could all be this go
  4 KB (741 words) - 19:07, 24 February 2018
• The Sultan's Tigers by Josh Lacey
  ...hat way – and even Tom himself learnt the benefits of such a life in the [[Island of Thieves by Josh Lacey|first book in the series]]. With the passing of t ...s two children going to the subcontinent for an inheritance, as historical fiction.
  3 KB (545 words) - 09:09, 23 April 2018
• Mistress of the Sea by Jenny Barden
  |genre=Historical Fiction ...ok, with one of the most interesting characters being marooned on a remote island, which is quite limiting in terms of action. Thankfully, the book picks up
  3 KB (525 words) - 13:47, 25 August 2020
• What to Look for in Winter: A Memoir in Blindness by Candia McWilliam
  ...cts with writers and artist, the recreation of family life on the Scottish island of Colonsay or in Edinburgh, the twists and turns of her two marriages and ...cancer which makes for poignant comparison with McWilliam. For lovers of fiction, we can recommend [[Blind by Cath Weeks]].
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• The Quickening by Julie Myerson
  |genre=General Fiction ...and Dan are on holiday in the Caribbean, but soon after they arrive on the island of Antigua odd and disturbing things start to happen. Items seemingly move
  3 KB (600 words) - 13:55, 18 March 2018
• The Ice Lands by Steinar Bragi and Lorenza Garcia (translator)
  ...ly come from Iceland. There's something about the genre fiction from that island that has an earthy, gritty mysticism running through it like letters throug ...nature of Iceland and her people making sections feel almost like literary fiction in the use of character to act as cyphers for authorial statements, alongsi
  5 KB (778 words) - 15:09, 22 March 2018
• Gladiator: Fight for Freedom by Simon Scarrow
  ...ally put down, he retired from the army and bought a farm on a small Greek island. Marcus has spent most of his boyhood on the farm, learning to train dogs, [[Category:Historical Fiction]]
  3 KB (534 words) - 14:26, 25 August 2020
• Sag Harbor by Colson Whitehead
  |genre=Literary Fiction ...cationing youngster. Sag Harbor really does exist - at the far end of Long Island and next to the up-market Hamptons. It has a history of whaling and an asso
  5 KB (870 words) - 13:08, 21 April 2018
• The Space Between by Meg Grehan
  |publisher=Little Island Books [[Category:LGBT Fiction]]
  4 KB (604 words) - 21:51, 16 February 2018
• If I Never Went Home by Ingrid Persaud
  |genre=General Fiction ...of Trinidadian life, ''If I Never Went Home'' paints a vivid picture of an island full of life, personality, sunshine and wonderful food and drink? But does
  3 KB (609 words) - 12:00, 17 March 2018
• The Serpent Sword by Matthew Harffy
  |genre=Historical Fiction |summary= An incredible work of historical fiction. A deft and skilful author who builds tension well and delivers simply bril
  4 KB (765 words) - 11:45, 22 March 2018
• The Light Between Oceans by M L Stedman
  |genre=Literary Fiction ...novel. How would a story about a couple and a baby on a remote rock of an island be sustained for 300 plus pages? It's actually sustained rather beautifully
  4 KB (752 words) - 15:20, 11 October 2020
• The Spinning Heart by Donal Ryan
  |genre=Literary Fiction ...ancial crash has hit and Pokey has done a runner. An investment in a fake island off Dubai finished him and now he's disappeared. On the estate of forty ho
  3 KB (557 words) - 12:45, 5 March 2018
• Bellewether by Susanna Kearsley
  ...he supernatural that centres around something so simple as a house on Long Island. Kearlsey carries on her streak of skilfully written historical fictions wh [[Category:Historical Fiction]] [[Category:Paranormal]]
  4 KB (606 words) - 13:49, 25 August 2020
• Needlework by Deirdre Sullivan
  |genre=General Fiction |publisher=Little Island
  3 KB (563 words) - 10:17, 28 September 2020
• The Lemon Grove by Helen Walsh
  |genre=General Fiction This is a sultry book that needs a hot, steamy setting, so the Spanish island works well. It becomes a character in its own right quite quickly, and soon
  3 KB (624 words) - 15:38, 17 March 2018

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