Suspiciously Specific #11: Novels in Lighthouses
- The Fiction Fox
- 6 days ago
- 3 min read
Genre: literary fiction, classic
Pagecount: 268 pages
For years now the Ramsays have spent every summer in their holiday home in Scotland, and they expect these summers will go on forever; but as the First World War looms, the integrity of family and society will be fatally challenged.
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Pagecount: 358 pages
A nature photographer travels to the Farallon Islands, for a one-year residency capturing the landscape. Shortly after her arrival, she is assaulted by one of the island’s inhabitants. A few days later, her assailant is found dead, perhaps the result of an accident.
Danger and violence lurk in every corner of these isolated islands, and it's more than just the natural- environmental kind.
Genre: middlegrade contemporary
Pagecount: 204 pages
10-year old Julia has followed her mum and dad to live on a remote island for the summer – her dad, for work; her mother, on a determined mission to find the elusive Greenland shark. But when her mother’s obsession threatens to submerge them all, Julia finds herself on an adventure with dark depths and a lighthouse full of hope…
Genre: middlegrade fantasy
Pagecount: 400 pages
Washed up as a baby beside a remote lighthouse and raised by a mermaid, Alpha Lux was the first foundling at Haven Point. Now the lighthouse is a ramshackle home for any disabled person who needs somewhere to belong. Looting from passing ships to make a living, they call themselves the Wrecklings. But when Alpha spots a strange light up on the headland, she realizes that her beloved family are in danger of being discovered by Outsiders. With their home under threat, the Wrecklings must decide what kind of future they want . . . and what they're willing to do to get it.
Genre: middlegrade horror
Pagecount: 256 pages
A sweetly spooky ghost story about a Cuban American boy who befriends a pair of spirits and tries to break the curse on his island home . . . only to discover a seemingly lost piece of his family’s history in the process.
Genre: literary fiction
Pagecount: 328 pages
It's no ordinary existence on the rugged isle of Muckle Flugga.The only human inhabitants are the lighthouse keeper, known as The Father, and his otherworldly son, Ouse. Them, and the occasional lodger to keep the wolf from the door.
When one of those lodgers - Firth, a chaotic writer - arrives from Edinburgh, the limits of the world the keeper and his son cling to begin to crumble. A tug of war ensues between Firth and the lighthouse keeper for Ouse's affections - and his future. As old and new ways collide, and life-changing decisions loom, what will the tides leave standing in their wake?
Genre: horror
Pagecount: 432 pages
Two sisters go missing on a remote Scottish island. Twenty years later, one is found—but she's still the same age as when she disappeared. The secrets of witches have reached across the centuries in this chilling Gothic thriller.
Genre: fantasy
Pagecount: 336 pages
At the edge of Chicago, nestled on the shores of Lake Michigan, there is a waystation for the dead. Every night, the newly-departed travel through the city to the Station, guided by its lighthouse. There, they reckon with their lives, before stepping aboard a boat to go beyond.
Nera has spent decades watching her father – the ferryman of the dead – sail across the lake, each night just like the last. But tonight, something is wrong. A living person has found her way onto the boat.
Her name is Charlie. She followed a song. And she is searching for someone she lost.
Genre: literary historical fiction
Pagecount: 352 pages
Three keepers vanish from a remote lighthouse, miles from the shore. The entrance door is locked from the inside. The clocks have stopped. The Principal Keeper’s weather log describes a mighty storm, but the skies have been clear all week.What happened to those three men, out on the tower? The heavy sea whispers their names. Twenty years later, the women they left behind are still struggling to move on. Helen, Jenny and Michelle should have been united by the tragedy, but instead it drove them apart. And then a writer approaches them. He wants to give them a chance to tell their side of the story.
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