 | The Summer Book by Tove Jansson
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £0.01 Tove Jansson's sweet and alluring novel set in the Finnish archipelago - maps a tender grandmother/granddaughter relationship and moved me to tears.
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 | A Summer Tide by Tony Peake
Buy used from: £0.01 A quasi-romantic mystery page-turner set on Osea Island in the Blackwater estuary
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 | Drinking the Rain by Alix Kates Shulman
Buy used from: £3.67 Mid-life crisis for the author takes place on an Eastern Seaboard retreat - powerfully observed and fastidiously written. Quite superb
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 | The Bay of Noon (King Penguin) by Shirley Hazzard
Buy used from: £0.01 An awesomely perfect piece of writing by one of my favourite writers maps a set of brittle relationships on and around Capri in the 1960s
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 | Greene on Capri by Shirley Hazzard
Buy new: £7.99 / Used from: £0.53 A second appearance for Hazzard and Capri on my list - this time in an interesting memoir of Grahame Greene and that lovely island
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 | Katie Morag's Island Stories (Katie Morag Stories) by Mairi Hedderwick
Buy new: £5.96 / Used from: £3.23 A bit of Island magic for the kids - delightful evocation of Hebridean life through the day-to-day tales of Katie Morag.
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 | Wildfire at Midnight by Mary Stewart
Buy used from: £0.27 Some sofa-afternoon schlock from the most literate of pulp novelists. Back to the Hebrides for a rip-roaring adventure of murder on the mountainside, complete with Bletane fires and romance!
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 | Dirt Music by Tim Winton
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £0.01 Scrapes into my Island list by virtue of a fantastic, suspensful island hopping climax to a strong, scarred novel
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 | Kensuke's Kingdom by Michael Morpurgo
Buy used from: £0.01 Morpurgo can come across a bit too solidly educational at times, but this is a thrilling cast-away adventure for the 9-11s
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 | The Island of the Great Yellow Ox by Walter Macken
Buy used from: £0.23 On for purely sentimental reasons - this was my FAVOURITE book when I was 10! It wouldn't top my list now but is still good fun.
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