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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...

The Island of Lost Girls

The Island of Lost Girls
  • Author(s): Alex Marwood
  • Location(s): The Mediterranean
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1985/2016

Sun-drenched glamour and obscene wealth hide the darkest of secrets and lost girls in this ripped-from-the-headlines thriller. 1985 For twelve-year-old Mercedes,...

The Island of Lost Maps

The Island of Lost Maps
  • Author(s): Miles Harvey
  • Location(s): World
  • Genre(s): Nonfiction
  • Era(s): 20th Century

In December 1995 Gilbert Bland was chased from a rare book room of Johns Hopkins University, clutching a 232-year-old map. He turned out to be one of the greatest map thieves in history. Miles Harvey traced Bland¿s journey from...

The Island of Ted

The Island of Ted
  • Author(s): Jason Cunningham
  • Location(s): The Philippines
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): early 2000s

Would you give up everything you know to find paradise? That’s the question facing movie producer, Ted LaSalle. After a string of personal tragedies, Ted decides to leave it all behind and purchase his own island off the Philippine...

The Island Retreat

The Island Retreat
  • Author(s): Cathy Kelly
  • Location(s): Corfu
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Six people gather on a fabulous Greek island, each one hoping that ten days in the sun, writing their life stories, will magically fix their lives. Rose Talisman is pinning it all on a fresh start. Five years after...

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