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- Location(s): Pacific Ocean
- Genre(s): Cli-fi, Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1870s
FINALIST FOR THE 2025 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD IN FICTION From “one of our great artists of catastrophe” (Laura van den Berg) comes North Sun, or the Voyage of the Whaleship Esther—an allegory of extraction and a tale of adventure...
- Location(s): Hawai'i, Guam, Marshall Islands, The Philippines
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): Modern
When Nathalie Thompson’s cameraman doesn’t show up at the airport alarm bells start to ring. But, with a TV commission on the table and a job to do she sets off across the world to make a documentary on...
- Location(s): South America, Pacific Ocean, Peru
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1579
April 1579: When two ships meet off the Pacific coast of New Spain, an enslaved woman seizes the chance to escape. But Maria has unwittingly joined Francis Drake’s circumnavigation voyage as he sets sail on a secret detour into...
- Location(s): Fiji
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
I’ve planted my feet on Fijian earth and I intend to stay here until the last sunset . Why don’t you join me? Leave behind everything that didn’t work out! When recently-widowed Kat writes to her four old school...
Robert Louis Stevenson in Samoa
- Location(s): Samoa, Upolu
- Genre(s): Biography, Travelogue
- Era(s): Late 19th century
Almost every adult and child is familiar with his Treasure Island, but few know that Robert Louis Stevenson lived out his last years on an equally remote island, which was squabbled over by colonial powers much as Captain Flint’s...
- Location(s): Pacific Ocean
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Present day
God gave her peace then; maybe He’ll do it again. When Amy Lee’s son heads off to college, the bed and breakfast owner finds life even lonelier and emptier than she had after losing her husband. She needs something...
- Location(s): Papua New Guinea, Sydney
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1950s / 1960s
From the lush Owen Stanley Ranges of Papua New Guinea to working-class inner Sydney… Ruth follows the story of its protagonist, the only daughter of John and Alice Madison, coffee plantation owners. Set in the fifties and sixties, Ruth...
- Location(s): Papua New Guinea
- Genre(s): Historical
- Era(s): 1940s, World War II
When Smoky, a tiny Yorkie Terrier, is miraculously found in a foxhole in the steaming jungles of Papua New Guinea, she has no way of knowing she will become a World War II hero and Hollywood star. Flying with...
- Location(s): Australia, Pacific Ocean
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical, Mystery
- Era(s): 1800s
When a girl goes missing on board of an ocean liner, only one person is convinced that the disappearance is no accident. Alyssa has found herself with a group of impoverished girls who are embarking from Australia to Canada...
- Location(s): Fiji
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): early 21st century
Shaw is in Fiji to sell a stolen painting to the crime boss, Vornis. It will be the deal of a lifetime, if Shaw can pull it off. But then Vornis parades his latest toy around in front of...
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