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- Location(s): Tanna (Tana), Vanuatu
- Genre(s): Travelogue
- Era(s): Modern
As a bookish child growing up on Merseyside in the 1980s, Matthew Baylis identified with the much-mocked Prince Philip as a fellow outsider. He even had a poster of him on his bedroom wall. Years later, his Philip-worship long...
- Location(s): New Zealand (Aotearoa), Pacific Ocean
- Genre(s): Fiction, Suspense
- Era(s): Modern
They had found paradise. What would they do to keep it? With a quick spin of the globe, Kitty and Lana escape their grey reality and journey to the Philippines. There they discover The Blue – a beautiful yacht, with a...
- Location(s): Kiribati
- Genre(s): Biography
- Era(s): Early 20th century
A Pattern of Islands is the funny, charming and self-deprecating adventure story of a young man in the Pacific. Living for thirty years in the Gilbert and Ellis Islands, Grimble was ultimately initiated but not before he was severely...
- Location(s): The Atlantic Ocean, Pacific Ocean, World
- Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery
- Era(s): Early WW2
1939, Europe on the brink of war. Lily Shepherd leaves England on an ocean liner for Australia, escaping her life of drudgery for new horizons. She is instantly seduced by the world onboard: cocktails, black-tie balls and beautiful sunsets....
- Location(s): Papua New Guinea
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1930s
It is December 1932 and Andrew Bankson, isolated for several years whilst studying a tribe in New Guinea, is increasingly frustrated by his research. Then on Christmas Eve, he meets Nell Stone, famous and controversial anthropologist, and her wry,...
- Location(s): Tarawa
- Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
- Era(s): Modern
Nothing ever happens on Tarawa, a coral atoll in the middle of the Pacific. Then a mutilated body is found in a children’s nursery hut. Detective Sergeant Louisa Townsend from Edinburgh is on the island, helping train local police...
From Kauri Trees to Sunlit Seas
- Location(s): The Cook Islands
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): Mid 20th Century
Don Silk built his first boat, the “Patsy Jean”, with a book on boat building in one hand. Constructed from specially milled Northland kauri, it was launched at Opononi, on the Hokianga Harbour, and in 1959 he set off...
- Location(s): Samoa
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 20th Century
An epic spanning three generations, Leaves of the Banyan Tree tells the story of a family and community in Western Samoa, exploring on a grand scale such universal themes as greed, corruption, colonialism, exploitation, and revenge. Winner of the...
- Location(s): New Caledonia (Nouvelle-Calédonie), Sydney
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
Peter Corris’ world weary but always charismatic hero Cliff Hardy has long been established as Australia’s favourite investigator. Often bloodied but never bowed in this latest gripping novel, Hardy is in pursuit of missing millions from Sydney to the...
- Location(s): Bougainville Island
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1990s
A young girl is caught up in civil unrest on Bougainville Island, Papua New Guinea. Everyone who can, flees. Remaining is the only white man, who sets about teaching the children left on the island, and the only material...
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