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GIVEAWAY: 3 copies of The Island of Forgetting – BARBADOS

10th July 2022

We are pleased to be able to offer 3 copies of The Island of Forgetting by Jasmine Sealy, set on Barbados.

UK only

3 copies of The Island of Forgetting

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 life far removed from his reality; Atlas’s daughter Calypso, struggling to find her place in an unforgiving society; and her son Nautilus, grappling with various parts of a complex identity.

Each of them longs to escape – to go beyond the borders and circumstances that have contained them for so long – but each finds that they are trapped by a history found only in whispers and half-remembered fragments; and that it is dictating a future over which they have little control.

With every passing decade another generation must contend with the same doubts about their identity, about their place in the small world they have carved out for themselves and the same question: how can the things we don’t know define our futures?

Perfect for fans of Girl, Woman, Other and Homegoing, THE ISLAND OF FORGETTING is a powerful story of family and hope, and marks the arrival of a stunning new voice in literary fiction.

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  2. Tell us in the comments below which island around the world you would most like to visit – it can be far-flung it can be close. It’s as simple as that. Pop your thoughts into the comments below by Saturday, 23 July 2022 to be eligible to enter this giveaway. The first three names chosen at random will be sent a copy each of the novel. UK ONLY

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  1. User: FiLe

    Posted on: 28/07/2022 at 7:57 pm

    Cyprus my best holiday ever ❤

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  2. User: Tina Hartas

    Posted on: 27/07/2022 at 6:56 am

    WINNERS

    Quod
    Georgie Wright
    JuanKerr

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  3. User: Victoria Bazley

    Posted on: 23/07/2022 at 9:28 pm

    I’ve always wanted to go to the Isle of Man and see a Manx cat.

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  4. User: Bookmark

    Posted on: 23/07/2022 at 9:14 pm

    I would love to visit Bora Bora because it is said to be one of most beautiful and most scenic places on Earth.

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  5. User: Georgie Wright

    Posted on: 23/07/2022 at 7:12 pm

    I’d like to visit Tasmania and go wildlife spotting.

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  6. User: Emma Barham

    Posted on: 23/07/2022 at 6:40 pm

    Love to visit islands of Japan. Or revisit Majorca.

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  7. User: Amy

    Posted on: 23/07/2022 at 1:57 pm

    Folegandros, Greece

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  8. User: Heather N

    Posted on: 23/07/2022 at 11:18 am

    I’d love to visit Rarotonga in the Cook Islands

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  9. User: Lauren Old

    Posted on: 23/07/2022 at 8:32 am

    I’d love to visit Jamaica

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  10. User: Patricia Barrett

    Posted on: 22/07/2022 at 10:46 pm

    The Galápagos Islands in Ecuador are on my bucket list of islands to visit.

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  11. User: Claire Hamilton

    Posted on: 22/07/2022 at 10:46 pm

    I’d love to go diving in the Andaman Islands in India

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  12. User: Adrian Bold

    Posted on: 22/07/2022 at 10:45 pm

    I’d love to visit Folegandros, Greece

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  13. User: angiemac18

    Posted on: 22/07/2022 at 9:04 pm

    I would love to visit to Oahu in Hawaii

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  14. User: LadySpirit

    Posted on: 22/07/2022 at 8:41 pm

    Always wanted top visit Corfu…

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  15. User: Joyce Willis

    Posted on: 22/07/2022 at 8:22 pm

    Komodo

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  16. User: Liz Atkin

    Posted on: 22/07/2022 at 7:16 pm

    iceland is on my list

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  17. User: Sheena Read

    Posted on: 22/07/2022 at 5:44 pm

    Isle of Skye

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  18. User: ellie gilmour

    Posted on: 22/07/2022 at 5:19 pm

    i would love to go to japan

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  19. User: Glynis O'Halloran

    Posted on: 22/07/2022 at 3:52 pm

    I would love to go to Mykonos. Visited very briefly once and would love to have time to explore it better

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  20. User: Karen R

    Posted on: 22/07/2022 at 3:36 pm

    I wasn’t allowed to go on a school trip to the Isle of Man because I joined the school too near the day of the trip, so I’d love to visit the Isle of Man 🙂

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  21. User: Jeanette Leighton

    Posted on: 22/07/2022 at 3:26 pm

    I would love to visit Barbados as my partners mum is from there

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  22. User: phillippalee

    Posted on: 22/07/2022 at 2:16 pm

    i would love to go to Iona in Scotland. Such a beautiful spiritual island with turqouise seas and a peaceful feeling.

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  23. User: Daphne Monk

    Posted on: 22/07/2022 at 11:21 am

    I have always wanted to visit Lewis and Harris in the Outer Hebrides the beautiful beaches and it’s history draws me.

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    • User: LadySpirit

      Posted on: 22/07/2022 at 8:43 pm

      I have always wanted to visit Corfu…

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  24. User: beckwalks

    Posted on: 22/07/2022 at 10:23 am

    I would love to visit pig island, where they are all feral and swim with them in the sea

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  25. User: Janine Atkin

    Posted on: 22/07/2022 at 10:21 am

    id love to go to Bali

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  26. User: Elaine Lane

    Posted on: 22/07/2022 at 9:22 am

    Although I’ve lived in the Outer Hebrides, I’ve never visited the island of Barra, and I would love to. Not by ferry, that’s far too ordinary. By plane, and the flight times are determined by tide tables because the plane lands on the beach.

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  27. User: petaljuice

    Posted on: 22/07/2022 at 8:22 am

    I’d love to visit Árainn Mhór Island off the coast of County Donegal. I enjoyed The Storm Keeper’s Island which was set there.

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  28. User: Patricia Avery

    Posted on: 22/07/2022 at 8:09 am

    Iceland has always fascinated me and the swimming in one of those hot springs would be irresistible. I’d never want to get out!

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  29. User: Tamdy

    Posted on: 22/07/2022 at 6:26 am

    Got to be Galapagos

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  30. User: claire Little

    Posted on: 21/07/2022 at 10:32 pm

    Mauritius

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  31. User: Madelaine McLaughlin

    Posted on: 21/07/2022 at 8:44 pm

    The Isle of Iona- such a beautiful and spiritual place

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  32. User: Sheri

    Posted on: 21/07/2022 at 6:31 pm

    I would love to go to Sardinia, it looks so weird

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  33. User: Angela Kelly

    Posted on: 21/07/2022 at 3:00 pm

    I would love to visit Japan. The culture has always interested me and there would be so much to see.

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  34. User: Laney

    Posted on: 21/07/2022 at 11:24 am

    Japan

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  35. User: JuanKerr

    Posted on: 20/07/2022 at 10:43 pm

    Lord Howe Island

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  36. User: Katherine McDonald

    Posted on: 20/07/2022 at 9:36 pm

    Bermuda – it looks beautiful!

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  37. User: Rebecca F

    Posted on: 20/07/2022 at 7:27 pm

    Ischia in Italy

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  38. User: Kevin Webster

    Posted on: 20/07/2022 at 6:46 pm

    Mauritius

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  39. User: Gul Akkaya

    Posted on: 20/07/2022 at 3:01 pm

    Koh Tao island

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  40. User: Erica Hughes

    Posted on: 20/07/2022 at 11:30 am

    The Shetland Islands

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  41. User: Sarah Parker

    Posted on: 20/07/2022 at 7:43 am

    I think it would be amazing to go to galapagos islands

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  42. User: Turtledove

    Posted on: 20/07/2022 at 5:21 am

    Pitcairn Island. Not really set up for tourists, I understand, but steeped in history. Really want to visit.

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  43. User: becksta75

    Posted on: 19/07/2022 at 9:53 pm

    I’d love to visit Australia

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  44. User: Quod

    Posted on: 19/07/2022 at 2:11 pm

    South Island New Zealand

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  45. User: Debbie W

    Posted on: 19/07/2022 at 9:24 am

    Reunion, off the east coast of Africa. At university, my husband and I were close friends with a student from Reunion who was on an exchange program. He was going out with a girl a couple of years below us and for a while we were all really close. A couple of years after graduating, she moved to Reunion with him and they had a family, although they aren’t together as a couple now. I’ve always fancied visiting, as their children were brought up in such a different location to our own. It feels like our lives crossed and were on the same path for a while and then took such different trajectories.

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  46. User: Pamela Cook

    Posted on: 19/07/2022 at 8:27 am

    Any warm and sunny island – preferably with a sandy beach!

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  47. User: jeanniev1

    Posted on: 19/07/2022 at 7:51 am

    I would love to visit Guadeloupe. A island missed out on my tour.

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  48. User: Sandra Joy Anderton

    Posted on: 19/07/2022 at 5:53 am

    I would love to visit Jersey

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  49. User: Sandra Joy Anderton

    Posted on: 19/07/2022 at 5:51 am

    I would like to visit Jersey

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  50. User: petmad53

    Posted on: 19/07/2022 at 1:04 am

    Isle of Wight

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  51. User: Rich Tyler

    Posted on: 18/07/2022 at 10:09 pm

    Barbados would be amazing!

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  52. User: shivster

    Posted on: 18/07/2022 at 8:02 pm

    I would love to visit Barbados!

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    • User: Sandra Joy Anderton

      Posted on: 19/07/2022 at 5:54 am

      Madeira is beautiful we have been many a time

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  53. User: bZ4X-SUV

    Posted on: 18/07/2022 at 6:14 pm

    Bora Bora, French Polynesia – not only is this a lush tropical volcanic island it has mouthwatering French cuisine to match.

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  54. User: Denise

    Posted on: 18/07/2022 at 5:59 pm

    I’d love to visit Santorini

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  55. User: Kelos

    Posted on: 18/07/2022 at 5:36 pm

    Always wanted to visit Cuba 🙂

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  56. User: jennifer moville

    Posted on: 18/07/2022 at 4:49 pm

    i always wanted to visit barbados and did when i went on a carribean cruise a number of years ago – beautiful island

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  57. User: Fairyfiona

    Posted on: 18/07/2022 at 4:31 pm

    All the Caribbean islands look wonderful.Barbados perhaps to begin my adventures

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  58. User: Ellie F Wood

    Posted on: 18/07/2022 at 3:45 pm

    I’ve always wanted to go to Mauritius

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  59. User: myrrh

    Posted on: 18/07/2022 at 3:29 pm

    I would love to visit Hawaii

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  60. User: SYLV

    Posted on: 18/07/2022 at 3:17 pm

    HAWAII, MY DAD ALWAYS WANTED TO GO THERE, BUT PASSED AWAY, SO I WOULD LOVE TO GO THERE FOR HIM

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  61. User: Esmerelda

    Posted on: 18/07/2022 at 2:41 pm

    A tropical one with white sands, blue sea, hot sun, shade, secrets

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  62. User: Sarah Hamilton

    Posted on: 18/07/2022 at 12:40 pm

    Maui

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  63. User: Carol Greenfield

    Posted on: 18/07/2022 at 12:32 pm

    Maui and watch the whales.

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  64. User: aspella

    Posted on: 18/07/2022 at 10:43 am

    I’d like to visit the Shetland islands

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  65. User: Marycarol

    Posted on: 18/07/2022 at 10:31 am

    Love the Greek islands so just any of them!

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  66. User: Cornelia Ridler

    Posted on: 18/07/2022 at 9:32 am

    I used to holiday on The Isle of Skye as a child and would love to return, but would also love to visit other Scottish islands

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  67. User: Jo Jones

    Posted on: 18/07/2022 at 9:16 am

    I would love to visit Grand Caymon to view the Stingrays, and go in the submarine to see the marine life.

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  68. User: pateci0

    Posted on: 18/07/2022 at 9:10 am

    Tahiti

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  69. User: redfox5

    Posted on: 18/07/2022 at 8:05 am

    Japan! I’ve been before but loved it so much, can’t wait to go back.

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  70. User: John Rossington

    Posted on: 17/07/2022 at 10:08 am

    Sicily please. My favourite fictional detective lives and works there. It looks wonderful.

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  71. User: Sheena Batey

    Posted on: 16/07/2022 at 9:42 pm

    Farne Islands to see the bird colonies

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  72. User: Greenblue12

    Posted on: 16/07/2022 at 7:16 pm

    The island I would love to visit is Sardinia, Italy

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  73. User: amypriestley

    Posted on: 16/07/2022 at 7:09 pm

    I would love to visit Bora bora

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  74. User: Tess P

    Posted on: 16/07/2022 at 6:12 pm

    Fiji always sounds so exotic to me. Any tiny Pacific isle would be bliss.

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  75. User: Sagrl

    Posted on: 16/07/2022 at 2:30 pm

    Mull

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  76. User: Leah Tonna

    Posted on: 16/07/2022 at 9:03 am

    I’ve always wanted to visit Iceland, should have gone there for my 70th birthday but Covid intervened.

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  77. User: Julie

    Posted on: 15/07/2022 at 10:45 pm

    thailand and island coh samui

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  78. User: Doddle1

    Posted on: 15/07/2022 at 12:59 pm

    All of the Orkney isles

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  79. User: Alyson Caddick

    Posted on: 15/07/2022 at 9:38 am

    Would love to visit Barbados

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  80. User: pamelacook

    Posted on: 15/07/2022 at 9:15 am

    I would love to visit any of the smaller Greek islands which do not have an airport (so we get a ferry ride as well)!

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  81. User: galadrial

    Posted on: 15/07/2022 at 9:11 am

    I would like to visit the Seychells and go to Anse Source d’Argent beach.

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  82. User: Laura Pritchard

    Posted on: 14/07/2022 at 7:10 pm

    I’d love to visit Komodo!

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  83. User: May Burgess

    Posted on: 14/07/2022 at 6:40 pm

    id love to win

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  84. User: Gdog

    Posted on: 14/07/2022 at 4:18 pm

    Evia in Greece!

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  85. User: SavvyAng

    Posted on: 14/07/2022 at 2:42 pm

    Sicily

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  86. User: Cotswoldlass

    Posted on: 14/07/2022 at 11:54 am

    Ischia off the coast of Italy

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  87. User: lizhar

    Posted on: 14/07/2022 at 5:23 am

    Madeira

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  88. User: Denise

    Posted on: 13/07/2022 at 10:21 pm

    Santorini always looks so magical

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  89. User: twinkle49

    Posted on: 13/07/2022 at 9:47 pm

    Hawaii

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  90. User: Janet Haste

    Posted on: 13/07/2022 at 6:31 pm

    I would love to go to Maui to see the dolphins.

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  91. User: Cookingprophecy

    Posted on: 13/07/2022 at 6:03 pm

    Would love to visit Tuvalu, beautiful beaches and in the middle of nowhere.

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  92. User: SAK

    Posted on: 13/07/2022 at 5:47 pm

    Hawaii

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  93. User: SnazzyNanma

    Posted on: 13/07/2022 at 5:25 pm

    Iceland – ever since seeing it as a kid on Blue Peter… a long time… lol

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  94. User: clairew137

    Posted on: 13/07/2022 at 4:58 pm

    Maldives

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  95. User: Lisa

    Posted on: 13/07/2022 at 4:05 pm

    I’d like to visit Santorini.

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  96. User: Rowy45

    Posted on: 13/07/2022 at 3:41 pm

    Great

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  97. User: myrrh

    Posted on: 13/07/2022 at 3:37 pm

    Borneo

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  98. User: moonray

    Posted on: 13/07/2022 at 3:34 pm

    It has to be the Island of Man , I’ve always been so fascinated by it and by its many myths, legends and folklore

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  99. User: Laura Jeffs

    Posted on: 13/07/2022 at 3:30 pm

    It would have to be the Isle of Man, I’m so fascinated by it and by all its myths and legends and folklore

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  100. User: byzbee33

    Posted on: 13/07/2022 at 3:24 pm

    I would like to go to the Fiji islands, I imagine that the wildlife will be fantastic,, all the nature lush and in season, a scenery of colour and pretty birds flying around wild animals just roaming.

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  101. User: chris2468

    Posted on: 13/07/2022 at 2:50 pm

    Cabo Verde aka Cape Verde as it is quite remote

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  102. User: Jackief

    Posted on: 13/07/2022 at 1:25 pm

    I’d love to visit St Lucia it looks truly beautiful

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  103. User: Plumbobmummy

    Posted on: 13/07/2022 at 12:48 pm

    I’d like to visit Crete

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  104. User: KhadijaQazi

    Posted on: 12/07/2022 at 2:09 pm

    I would want to visit Cyprus because of its abounding natural beauty

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  105. User: Yvonne @Fiction_Books

    Posted on: 12/07/2022 at 10:02 am

    Nowhere too far-flung or exotic for me, I’ve got all that out of my system since Covid. I have always fancied visiting Gurnsey and maybe one or two of its smaller islands, Sark and Alderney

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  106. User: Michelle Ptak

    Posted on: 12/07/2022 at 7:14 am

    I would love to visit Lampedusa, a lover of all things Italian we absolutely loved visiting Capri. Lampedusa has beautiful beaches and the marine life looks amazing for snorkelling which we love. Looks idyllic!

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  107. User: philatel

    Posted on: 11/07/2022 at 11:49 pm

    I would love to visit Madagascar and see the lemurs.

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  108. User: Janine Phillips

    Posted on: 11/07/2022 at 1:27 pm

    I would always choose the island of Gozo, my fave place x

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  109. User: Christine Aiello

    Posted on: 11/07/2022 at 1:15 pm

    I would love to go to Tahiti and stay in one of those over water bungalows!

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  110. User: lapsapchung

    Posted on: 11/07/2022 at 4:53 am

    I’d love to visit Corsica.

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  111. User: Claire Harris

    Posted on: 10/07/2022 at 10:03 pm

    I would like to revisit the island of Borneo, where I worked for 3.5 years in the early Eighties!
    It was a calm backwater, where the Malays, Chinese, Indians and local tribes lived in apparent harmony.
    I know there have been many changes in the intervening 40 years, such as high rise buildings & the impact that the internet has had on tribes who, back then, were still living their lives in longhouses, hunting with blowpipes, fishing & planting subsistence crops of wild rice & sago palm.
    It would be so interesting to see all the changes & whether anything has stayed the same!

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  112. User: Toocrmum

    Posted on: 10/07/2022 at 9:07 pm

    I’d love to visit Madagascar

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  113. User: Rachel Hall

    Posted on: 10/07/2022 at 5:58 pm

    The Isle of Wight because I’d be going with my mum and she wouldn’t want to fly. Also it looked lovely on The Hotel Inspector the other night and neither of us have been there.

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