English books from Oceania
Recommended English books (382)
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If you speak English here are some English books from Oceania for the next part of the "Read Around The World Challenge".
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Finding Gobi : A Little Dog with a Very Big Heart by Dion Leonard, Craig Borlase EN
AustraliaDescription:
Dion Leonard, a seasoned ultramarathon runner, crossed paths with a stray dog while competing in a 155-mile race through the Gobi Desert in China. The lovable pup, who would later earn the name Gobi, proved that what she lacked in size, she more than made up for in heart, as she went step for step with Dion over the Tian Shan Mountains, across massive sand dunes, through yurt villages and the black sands of the Gobi Desert, keeping pace with him for 77 miles. As Dion witnessed the incredible determination and heart of this small animal, he found his own heart undergoing a change as well. Where... continue
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First Nations Writers Festival 2024 : Short Story Award Winners by Willy Jnr Fafoi, Marlene Dee Gray Potoura, Romney Charles Tabara EN
Country: Oceania / 
Solomon Islands
Solomon Islands
Description:
Anthology of stories written in their own words, filled with culture and allegories, village bon mots, and family joys and sadness. Mythology and spirits, cultural lores and community - whether in both the natural or human worlds. All writers are Literature Elders of the Greater Pacific, and it is an honour to publish their work.
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Flyaway by Kathleen jennings EN
Description:
'A superbly told tale of folklore-infused fantasy, full of rising dread, set in a sharply observed Australian outback town.' Garth Nix Strange what chooses to flourish here. Which plants. Which stories. Bettina Scott lives a tidy, quiet life in Runagate, tending to her delicate mother and their well-kept garden after her father and brothers disappear - until a note arrives that sends Bettina into the scrublands beyond, searching for answers about what really happened to this town, and to her family. For this is a land where superstitions hunt and folk tales dream - and power is there for the t... continue
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Flying-Fox in a Freedom Tree by Albert Wendt EN
SamoaDescription:
This early collection of eight short stories and a novella is vintage Wendt. Stories convey the unease of traditional island community caught up in the rapid changes of the modern world. Wendt writes with enviable directness and with deep feeling: comedy and tragedy are often hard to distinguish as his characters struggle to come to terms with their changing world.
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Follow the Rabbit-proof Fence: The True Story of One of the Greatest Escapes of All Time by Doris Pilkington EN
Description:
Three mixed-race Australian girls, having been taken from their Aboriginal families, escape and return home on foot, without supplies or gear, while trying to evade recapture, in an account based on a true story.
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Forgotten War : New Edition by Henry Reynolds EN
Description:
'We are at war with them,' wrote a Tasmanian settler in 1831. 'What we call their crime is what in a white man we should call patriotism.' Australia is dotted with memorials to soldiers who fought in wars overseas. So why are there no official memorials or commemorations of the wars that were fought on Australian soil between Aborigines and white colonists? Why is it more controversial to talk about the frontier wars now than it was one hundred years ago? In Forgotten War, winner of the 2014 Victorian Premier's Award for non-fiction, influential historian Henry Reynolds makes it clear that the... continue
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Forty Two Stories by Marlene Dee Gray Potoura EN
Country: Oceania / 
Papua New Guinea
Papua New Guinea
Description:
"Ordinary people, the types of people you meet every day - a cleaner, a cook, a bus driver, a street vendor, a school boy - all have a story to tell. Tales of courage, compassion, hope and self-belief. They live in villages, towns and cities around Bougainville and Papua New Guinea, and their stories explore values that inspire. There are some colourful characters that leap out of the real and spirit world of Papua New Guinea in this short story collection." — Stephanie Wynne, Editor of Tusitala Short Story Competition - Samoa Observer
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Freelove : A Novel by Sia Figiel EN
Description:
It is 1985 in Nu'uolemanusa/Village of the Sacred Owl, Western Samoa. Madonna's Like a Virgin rules the airwaves. Brilliant and inquisitive high school student and Star Trek fanatic, 17 1/2 year old Inosia Alofafua Afatasi, is sent by her mother to the capital, Apia, to buy three giant white threads. While she waits at the bus-stop, Mr. Ioane Viliamu, her teacher of Science and Mathematics and recent graduate of the University of Papua New Guinea and the pastor's eldest son, in turn, her spiritual brother, stops to offer her a ride in his red pick-up truck. Should she wait for the bus? Or shou... continue
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Country: Oceania / 
New Zealand
New Zealand
Description:
Set on a remote island in a post-apocalyptic, plague-ridden world, this bold and ingenious thriller questions what it means to be human as philosophical questions collide with technology.