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• Silver: Return to Treasure Island by Andrew Motion
  |title=Silver: Return to Treasure Island |genre=Literary Fiction
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• The Crabber Stories by Francis Bennett
  ...htful, coming-of-age collection of short stories set on the shores of Long Island in the nineteen-fifties. They work a magic on you and it was a real pleasu ...he once earned and which then stuck - and he grew up on the shores of Long Island in the nineteen-fifties. It was a close-knit community and a time when chi
  3 KB (554 words) - 14:30, 15 March 2018
• Skios by Michael Frayn
  |genre=General Fiction '''Shortlisted for Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction 2013'''
  5 KB (821 words) - 12:11, 5 March 2018
• Everland by Rebecca Hunt
  |genre=General Fiction There have been two expeditions to the Antarctic island of Everland a century apart. The ill-fated 1913 trip of Dinners, Napps and
  4 KB (606 words) - 11:29, 20 February 2018
• Jigsaw by Garry Kilworth
  ...an archaeologist would need a zoologist - or to be on a disappearing coral island at all - but Rambutu is a great guy and Max and Hass think little of it. ...n Time]] and Steve Voake's [[The Starlight Conspiracy]] also blend science fiction, fantasy and magic to marvellous effect.
  4 KB (682 words) - 10:40, 3 April 2018
• Lost and Found by Jacqueline Sheehan
  |genre=General Fiction ...he left her home, her job as a psychologist, her family and moved to Peaks Island off the coast of Maine where she took a job as an animal warden. On the ba
  5 KB (860 words) - 16:08, 7 September 2020
• Stars of Fortune (Guardians Trilogy) by Nora Roberts
  |genre=Women's Fiction ...famous five…err… six… for grown-ups in this fantasy/romance set on a Greek island against powers of evil. Possibly cheesy but for fans of cheesy it's an exc
  4 KB (643 words) - 13:50, 19 February 2018
• Escape from Silk Cotton Forest (Island Fiction) by Francis C Escayg
  |title= Escape from Silk Cotton Forest (Island Fiction) ...tula Tide by Sharon Tregenza]] leads the way in showing how small, insular island locales can lead to novel magic in a fully rounded way.
  3 KB (563 words) - 15:28, 4 April 2018
• Whisky Galore by Sir Compton Mackenzie
  ...hortened it) wrote ''Whisky Galore'' in 1946 as a tribute to the Hebridian island of Barra where he lived prior to moving to southeast England two years befo ...is partially accepted but he still has power over the previously enclosed island community that they resent and resist. This is even more evident in the ca
  5 KB (761 words) - 12:31, 23 March 2018
• The Summer Book by Tove Jansson
  |genre=Literary Fiction An island in the Gulf of Finland.
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• The Mystery of the Venus Island Fetish by Dido Butterworth and Tim Flannery
  |title=The Mystery of the Venus Island Fetish |sort=Mystery of the Venus Island Fetish
  4 KB (757 words) - 11:52, 18 March 2018
• Minecraft Guide to Exploration: An official Minecraft book from Mojang by Mojang AB
  |genre=Children's Non-Fiction I've just finished reading Max Brooks' novel, ''Minecraft: The Island'' and it was the perfect companion to this little book. On their own either
  3 KB (571 words) - 19:11, 24 February 2018
• The Lighthouse by P D James
  Combe Island, off the Cornish coast is a privately-owned retreat offering respite to peo ...Baroness James, in her eighties, was no longer up to producing good crime fiction. Whilst The Lighthouse isn't up to the standard of her best work - for me t
  5 KB (890 words) - 13:12, 12 August 2020
• Golden Hill by Francis Spufford
  |genre=Literary Fiction |summary=Much, much more than an engaging piece of historical fiction. Highly recommended.
  3 KB (536 words) - 12:21, 24 March 2018
• The Movement of Stars by Amy Brill
  |genre=Historical Fiction |summary=It starts off feeling like a reasonably good historical fiction about a woman fighting 19th century norms in a small town. Then, surreptit
  4 KB (714 words) - 15:13, 21 March 2018
• The Sea On Our Skin by Madeleine Tobert
  |genre=General Fiction |summary=An idyllic Pacific island and a mis-matched couple is the beginning of a story of love and hurt in a
  5 KB (802 words) - 09:29, 19 March 2018
• Finding Mother by Anne Allen
  |genre=Women's Fiction ...of Guernsey by Anne Allen|Dangerous Waters: Mystery, Loss and Love on the Island of Guernsey]] and if you've read that book you'll notice a glancing referen
  4 KB (611 words) - 09:12, 17 August 2021
• Top Ten Books For Your Auntie
  |genre=General Fiction |genre=Literary Fiction
  4 KB (686 words) - 10:05, 30 January 2024
• Koko Takes a Holiday by Kieran Shea
  |genre=Science Fiction ...e down. 'Koko takes a Holiday' is action-packed and humorous pulp science fiction at its best.
  4 KB (709 words) - 09:42, 20 August 2020
• Killer Heat by Linda Fairstein
  ...ar parts of the area, such as Governor's Island, Breezy Point or Bannerman Island, some fifty miles up the Hudson River. Excellent maps are provided and the ...Attorney of Manhattan's sex crimes unit and she knows her stuff – this is fiction written from knowledge rather than research and you sense that there's a lo
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