Join us for a chat with Maine author Lewis Robinson whose novel The Islanders is one of my recent favourites. Debuting in 2024, The Islanders is a Maine Public Radio All Books Considered selection for 2026 and a 2026 Maine Humanities Council ReadME pick. Robinson teaches at the University of Maine in Farmington.

Wealthy summer residents of Whaleback Island recruit a group of teens and proceed to test them both mentally and physically as part of an “exclusive leadership program.” But the island is full of secrets. A “reckoning of class conflict” and a classic tale of loyalty and friendship formed in the forge of necessity.

*photo by Molly Haley