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Rituals of the Dead: An Artifact Mystery

Rituals of the Dead: An Artifact Mystery
  • Author(s): Jennifer S Alderson
  • Location(s): Netherlands, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction, Mystery, Thriller
  • Era(s): 1962, 2017

Art, religion, and anthropology collide in Alderson’s latest art mystery thriller, Rituals of the Dead, Book three of the Adventures of Zelda Richardson series. Art history student Zelda Richardson is working at the Tropenmuseum in Amsterdam on an exhibition...

The Castaways

The Castaways
  • Author(s): Lucy Clarke
  • Location(s): Fiji, South London
  • Genre(s): Thriller, Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

t should be like any other holiday. Beautiful beaches. Golden sunsets. Nothing for miles. You’ll never want to leave. Until you can’t… Gripping, twisty and full of sun-soaked atmosphere, THE CASTAWAYS will whisk you far away to the island...

The Shoeshine Killer

The Shoeshine Killer
  • Author(s): Marianne Wheelaghan
  • Location(s): Tarawa, Suva
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Modern

The Shoeshine Killer is the second of the bestselling Scottish Detective Lady mysteries, featuring DS Louisa Townsend from Edinburgh. Louisa is on her first visit to Fiji and immediately gets caught up in the search for a double killer....

Treasure Islands

Treasure Islands
  • Author(s): Pamela Stephenson
  • Location(s): The South Seas
  • Genre(s): Travelogue
  • Era(s): Early 20th Century

Megaselling biographer, internationally renowned psychologist, ex-comedienne and mother of four (three teenage girls and Billy Connolly), the extraordinary Pamela Stephenson now adopts a new guise – historian, sailor, and circumnavigator of the globe. In Treasure Islands, Pamela follows in the intrepid footsteps...

46 Days Adrift

46 Days Adrift
  • Author(s): Barry Donnelly
  • Location(s): Kiribati, Pacific Ocean
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Modern

Imagine yourself … adrift in a four-metre tinnie in the shark-infested waters of the Pacific Ocean – lost and seemingly forgotten – shark bait! Ben Tooki, his uncle and a friend were caught in a storm off the island...

Fiji: A Novel

Fiji:  A Novel
  • Author(s): Lance and James Morcan
  • Location(s): Fiji
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical, Romance
  • Era(s): 1800s and earlier

Fiji is a spellbinding novel of adventure, cultural misunderstandings, religious conflict and sexual tension set in one of the most exotic and isolated places on earth. As the pharaohs of ancient Egypt build their mighty pyramids, and Chinese civilization...

French Sand

French Sand
  • Author(s): Catherine Broughton
  • Location(s): New Caledonia (Nouvelle-Calédonie)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1960s

The South Pacific island of New Caledonia is home to many ex-pats, to include Melanie, a young English woman who is suddenly – and totally inexplicably – abandoned by her husband. Based on a true story and set in...

Polar Star

Polar Star
  • Author(s): Martin Cruz Smith
  • Location(s): The Bering Sea
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): 1980s

The sequel to Gorky park. Renko is working on a factory ship in the ocean, lost in the transient crowd of migrant workers. The body of a female is found in one of the fishing nets and he is...

Reef Passsage

Reef Passsage
  • Author(s): Bernard Thorogood
  • Location(s): The Cook Islands
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

A new administrator arrives at a Polynesian island in the South Pacific with the instruction to prepare the way for self-government. The traditional authority of the chiefs and the moral authority of the church are also due to face...

The Beloved

The Beloved
  • Author(s): Annah Faulkner
  • Location(s): Port Moresby
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Mid 20th Century

When Roberta “Bertie” Lightfoot is struck down with polio, her world collapses. But Mama doesn’t tolerate self-pity, and Bertie is nobody if not her mother’s daughter – until she sets her heart on becoming an artist. Through drawing, the...

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