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The Island at the End of Everything

The Island at the End of Everything
  • Author(s): Kiran Millwood Hargrave
  • Location(s): The Philippines
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): timeless

Amihan lives on Culion Island, where some of the inhabitants – including her mother – have leprosy. Ami loves her home – with its blue seas and lush forests, Culion is all she has ever known. But the arrival...

The Island Between Us

The Island Between Us
  • Author(s): Dougie McHale
  • Location(s): Skiathos
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Two lives. One island. A past that won’t stay buried. After a shattering breakup in Edinburgh, Carissa escapes to the sun drenched Greek island of Skiathos, hoping to heal in the quiet rhythms of nature and solitude. There, she...

The Island Brief

The Island Brief
  • Author(s): Pippa McCathie
  • Location(s): London, Mauritius
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Adventure, Romance
  • Era(s): Present day

Abigail Kendall’s busy London life is turned upside down by the unexpected news of an inheritance brought to her from Mauritius by Raj, the attorney of her deceased uncle. Adding to the confusion is Raj’s charm, which Abi finds...

The Island Escape

The Island Escape
  • Author(s): Jess Ryder
  • Location(s): Greece
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary looking back to 1980s

Forty years ago, the island was paradise. Now, it’s haunted by shadows of the past. When Juno arrives at the breathtaking Greek island of Inios, she has one purpose: to find the father she’s never met. But he isn’t...

The Island Getaway

The Island Getaway
  • Author(s): Lucy Diamond
  • Location(s): Kefalonia (Cephalonia)
  • Genre(s): RomCom
  • Era(s): Contemporary

The dream holiday just got complicated . . . On the sun-drenched island of Kefalonia, the new arrivals at The Ionian Escape hotel are hoping for a break from everyday life. But some of them are bringing a lot...

The Island Hideaway

The Island Hideaway
  • Author(s): Louise Candlish
  • Location(s): Panarea
  • Genre(s): Suspense, Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

First published as “Prickly Heat” The island is the perfect romantic getaway. The kind of place Eleanor Blake dreamed of coming to with Will, the love of her life. Now they’re both here. Only Will is with another woman,...

The Island Home

The Island Home
  • Author(s): Libby Page
  • Location(s): The Hebrides
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Lorna’s world is small but safe. She loves her daughter, and the two of them is all that matters. But after nearly twenty years, she and Ella are suddenly leaving London for the Isle of Kip, the tiny remote...

The Island of Dreams

The Island of Dreams
  • Author(s): Helen McGinn
  • Location(s): Paxos
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Martha is the youngest of three sisters and, in her mid-thirties, has the dubious honour of being the only one to call off a wedding at the last moment. Now, feeling as if she’ll be single forever, and trying...

The Island of Forgetting

The Island of Forgetting
  • Author(s): Jasmine Sealy
  • Location(s): Barbados
  • Genre(s): Mythology
  • Era(s): 1960s-2019

In this compelling debut, an unknowable legacy passes through generations of one family living on the beautiful island of Barbados. There is Iapetus, a lonely soul haunted by the memory of his father; his son Atlas, dreaming of a...

The Island of Longing

The Island of Longing
  • Author(s): Anne Griffin
  • Location(s): County Cork, Dublin
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

One unremarkable afternoon, Rosie watched her daughter Saoirse cycle into town, expecting to hear the slam of the door when she returned a few hours later. But the slam never came. Eight years on, after an extensive investigation into...

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