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- Location(s): Papua New Guinea
- Genre(s): Nonfiction
- Era(s): WW2
For Australians, Kokoda is the iconic battle of World War II, yet few people know the names of the men who fought on the track, or even the details of what happened. More Australians died in the months of...
- Location(s): Pacific Ocean
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1950s
A plane crashes on an uninhabited island and the only survivors, a group of schoolboys, assemble on the beach and wait to be rescued. By day they inhabit a land of bright fantastic birds and dark blue seas, but...
- Location(s): Spain, Fiji
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): late 20th century
A chance meeting on the Fijian island of Taveuni is the trigger for a fascinating and mysterious novel that intertwines the stories of John Spooke, an English author who is grieving for his dead wife; Frank Andersen, a Norwegian...
- Location(s): Papua New Guinea
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1990s
In a novel that is at once intense, beautiful, and fablelike, Lloyd Jones weaves a transcendent story that celebrates the resilience of the human spirit and the power of narrative to transform our lives. On a copper-rich tropical island...
- Location(s): Papua New Guinea
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): late 20th century
Dear Mom and Pop, Two days ago we all spent the afternoon in palm trees. One of the village dogs broke his leash and treed the whole community. The dog is mean, but I have managed to form a...
Murder in the Pacific: Ifira Point
- Location(s): Vanuatu
- Genre(s): Crime, Fiction, Mystery
- Era(s): Contemporary
‘Shortlisted for 2024 Ned Kelly Awards, Best Debut Crime Fiction’ Esther Paul is 12 years old. She is reported missing on Vanuatu local radio. Two days later her body is found floating in the sea off Ifira Point in...
Murder in the Pacific: Mt Yasur
- Location(s): Vanuatu
- Genre(s): Crime, Fiction, Mystery
- Era(s): Contemporary
Book 1 in the series was Shortlisted for 2024 Ned Kelly Awards, Best Debut Crime Fiction’ In the heart of Vanuatu’s Tanna island, Hu Lee, the leader of an aid agency, meets a tragic end, fatally stabbed amidst a...
- Location(s): Papua New Guinea
- Genre(s): Thriller, Adventure
- Era(s): contemporary
A fugitive from justice, an impossible mission, and a taste for murder Nail-biting? You’ll chew your fingers off! Hiding away in a remote corner of Papua New Guinea, odd jobbing as a photographer and trek guide, ex-mountaineer Peter Blake...
- Location(s): Papua New Guinea
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1990s
Julie has grown up not knowing her father, with just the occasional Christmas card and the knowledge that he flies planes for a charter company in New Guinea. When she comes to stay with him one long summer, she...
- Location(s): Los Angeles, Santa Catalina Island
- Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
LAPD Detective Stilwell has been forced out of the Homicide department to a dead-end post on Santa Catalina Island. It might be an idyllic holiday destination but Stilwell knows it’s a backwater to keep him out of sight and...
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