The Woman Who Had Two Navels: A very inaccurate synopsis

The Woman Who Had Two Navels, and Tales of the Tropical Gothic, Nick Joaquin, 2017

Philippine Short Stories 1925-1940

Philippine Short Stories 1925-1940, Leopoldo Y. Yabes, ed., 1975

Cuentos Filipinos, Jose Montero y Vidal, 1883, translated by Renan Prado

Lali: A Pacific Anthology, ed. Albert Wendt, 1980

Cook Islands, #5; Tonga, #2; Samoa, #2; Niue, #1; Fiji, #1; Vanuatu, #1; Solomon Islands, #1; Papua New Guinea, #7; Kiribati, #2
£13.84 from Amazon.co.uk
Read: September 2015-December 2016
Rating: 3/5
Recommended for: Moana groupies

Raetemaot: Creative Writing from Solomon Islands, Julian Maka’a, ed.

Solomon Islands, #6
Paperback, $20 from Alibris.com (I kind of can’t believe I paid $20 for this)
Read September 2016
Rating: 2/5
Recommended for: trainee editors after a rousing game of spot-the-professional-writer

Suremada: Faces from a Solomon Island Village, Rexford Orotaloa, 1989

Black Stone, Grace Mera Molisa, 1983

The Story of the Eel, Elder Mark of Emil Potun, 2004

Vanuatu, #2 & #3
Black Stone: skimmed on Google Books; Story of the Eel: read online through JSTOR
Read August, 2016
Opening line (Black Stone): Ageless Vatu/ primeval source/ of creative forces/ ad infinitum
Opening line (Story of the Eel): There was once an old man and an old woman.

The Kanak Apple Season: Selected Short Fiction of Déwé Gorodé, Déwé Gorodé, translated and edited by Peter Brown, 2004

The Challenge, Ruperake Petaia, 2011

Samoa, #5
Kindle, (a waste of) $4.99 from amazon.com
Read January 2016
Rating: 1/5
Recommended for: Ruperake Petaia (because I can’t imagine anyone aside from the author enjoying this particular piece of literature)

Well, that’s half an hour of my life I’m never going to get back.