Meet Mister Bigelow. He's elderly, living alone on Long Island, New York, with some health problems but more than enough family and friend
...ok at [[A Secret Madness by Elaine Bass]]. There's some particularly good fiction about the nineteen fifties, such as [[The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishig
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...of hard lives lived on far-flung corner, this peninsular that is almost an island, with nothing between it and the Arctic, that kept me entranced.
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...re concerned, his previous two (''The English Monster'' and ''The Poisoned Island'') have given him a reputation as an expert manipulator of crime tinted wit
[[Category:Historical Fiction]]
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Meanwhile, Whistler has a secret arson club that meets on 'Alcatraz', an island in the middle of a local lake. At first, Lucia only supports the ''idea'' o
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...nse, as in these two examples: '[Nora] and her mom had been stranded on an island, the tropic of cancer with its thickets of growth' and 'There was Hannah Po
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...ately plausible history. There is a fine line between 'peddling historical fiction' and preserving the earliest foundation myths of the nation.
...in Britain rebelled against the Roman Emperor Constantine II, 'taking the island out of the Roman Empire for good'. (Was this the first Brexit, over 1500 ye
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...reds of miles north to a new and hopefully happy life on a remote Scottish island. We get a peek at the personalities of the children straight away: Alba is
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...d journey into the Jamaican country that completely evokes an image of the island. Ironically, it was only when I read this that I felt that I'd lacked that
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...eople the money belongs to won't let the trail go cold. The tiny Caribbean island of Saint Mark's seems a safe bet, but that's reckoning without the unexpect
...author Patrick Quinlan is a writer who weaves together elements of ''Pulp Fiction'', ''Kill Bill'' and ''Get Shorty''. He is certainly a writer who is doing
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...in, accompanied by their respective spouses. To the uninformed, Manhattan island is about the size of my handbag.
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* '''BB: If we were playing a sort of Desert Island Dialogue, what would you pick as you Top 5 words?'''
* '''BB: Who are your favourite authors, either fiction or non-fiction?'''
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...re and watch co-operating countries' organisations slug it out with ''Pulp Fiction'' (the movie) type violence. (Museums and caves appear to be places to avo
...s lit an urge for more about Napoleon, we also recommend [[Napoleon's Last Island by Thomas Keneally]]. If you're already a fan of EM and more a thriller th
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.... Readers are, I suspect, quite varied but with a preference for literary fiction, perhaps, and novels involving mysteries or problems that need to be solved
* '''BB: What would be your desert island book?'''
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...of the time not a lot happens - but always spookily. Set on the Norwegian island of Kvaløya in the Arctic Circle, the story is narrated by Liv who is now 2
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...se called "The Road To Reality". This would be my one book for that desert island.
...ry to "Setting The Record Straight". I would also like to write historical fiction if time permits.
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...ome... a place where her immigrant Cuban grandmother tried to recreate her island paradise... a place which later, under her aunt's tenure, became a home for
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...d two gap year novels recently, [[In the Trees by Pauline Fisk]] and [[The Island by Sarah Singleton]]. They're very different books, but they're both great.
Our book of the month in fiction is [[Revenge of the Mooncake Vixen: A Manifesto in 41 Tales by Marilyn Chin
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...ag.co.uk/ Scoop] will offer an inspiring mix of short stories, poetry, non-fiction features, comic strips and activities. It will feature some of the very bes
In fiction, Sue fell in love with [[Harmony by Carolyn Parkhurst]], the story of how a
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