Fiction

Freelove

Sia Figiel

"Girl can I give you a lift?" He smiled at me as if he were meeting me for the very first time. Inosia, a huge fan of science and Star Trek, accepts a ride to Apia from her fav… [+]

The Girl in the Moon Circle

Sia Figiel

Often fiction allows authors to tell truths that otherwise would be too painful. Sia Figiel is uninhibited in The Girl in the Moon Circle, an observation of life in Samoa for perce… [+]

So Many Islands

Edited by Nicholas Laughlin with Nailah Folami Imoja So Many Islands brings together stories from the distant shores of the island communities in the Caribbean, Mediterranean, Ind… [+]

Talanoa

Leki Jackson-Bourke, Lolo Fonua, Louise Tuʻu, Vela Manusaute, ʻAmanaki Prescott-Faletau

Talanoa: Four Pacific Plays is a timely collection from five playwrights who interweave Pacific languages with English.  Masters in the art of comedy and real-life theatre, these… [+]

Tales of Niue Nukututaha

Zora Feilo

These twelve tales from the island of Niue, in both Niuean and English, give traditional Polynesian storytelling a new twist. [+]

Taranga

Reina Kahukiwa

Taranga is the mother of Māui, a great cultural hero in the Māori creation narrative. Here Reina Kahukiwa recounts the birth of Māui seen through the eyes of Taranga. Inā te ātaa… [+]

where we once belonged

Sia Figiel

Winner of the 1997 Asia/Pacific Commonwealth Writer’s Prize for fiction. In Where We Once Belonged Sia Figiel uses the storytelling traditions of Samoa to weave together experience… [+]