A Bird That Flies with Two Wings: Kastom and State Justice Systems in Vanuatu – by Miranda Forsyth

Agroforestry Guides for Pacific Islands – Ed. by Craig R Elevitch and Kim M Wilkinson

An Archeology of Early Christianity in Vanuatu: Kastom and Religious Change on Tanna and Erromango 1839-1920 – by James L. Flexner

Appropriate – A Provocation – by Paisley Rekdal

Arts of Vanuatu – Ed. by Joël Bonnemaison, Christian Kaufmann, Kirk Huffman and Darrell Tryon

Beyond Pandemonium: From the New Hebrides to Vanuatu – by Walter Lini

Birthing in the Pacific: Beyond Tradition and Modernity – ed. by Vicki Lukere and Margaret Jolly

Bislama Reference Grammar – by Terry Crowley

Black Stone: Poems – by Grace Meara Molisa

Braiding Sweetgrass – by Robin Wall Kimmerer

Breaking Spears & Mending Hearts – Peacemakers & Restorative Justice in Bougainville – by Pat Howley

Cannibalism: A Perfectly Natural History – by Bill Schutt

Christianity and Animism in Melanesia – Four Approaches to Gospel and Culture – by Ken Nehrbass

Discourse on Colonialism – by Aimé Césaire (trans. By Joan Pinkham)

Distant Relations: How My Ancestors Colonized North America – by Victoria Feeman

Elements of Indigenous Style – A Guide for Writing By and About Indigenous People – by Gregory Younging

Ethnology of Vanuatu – An early twentieth century study – by Felix Speiser

Family & Gender in the Pacific – domestic contradictions and the colonial impact – Ed. by Margaret Jolly and Martha Macintyre

Fast Talking PI – by Selina Tusitala Marsh

Forgiveness and Reconciliation: Public Policy and Conflict Transformation – Ed. by Raymond G. Helmick, Rodney Petersen

From Mānoa to a Ponsonby Garden – by Albert Wendt

Good White People – The Problem with Middle-Class White Anti-Racism – by Shannon Sullivan

Guns, Germs and Steel – The Fates of Human Societies – by Jared Diamond

Ho`olaule`A – Celebrating Ten Years of Pacific Writing – Ed. by Brian Doyle and Māhealani Perez-Wendt

House Girls Remember – Domestic Workers in Vanuatu – Ed. By Margaret Rodman, Daniela Kraemer, Lissant Bolton, and Jean Tarisesei

How Natives Think – About Captain Cook, for Example - by Marchall Sahlins

Hybrid Justice in Vanuatu: The Island Courts – by Michael Goddard, Leisande Otto

Imperial Benevolence – Making British Authority in the Pacific Islands – by Jane Samson

In the Land of Strangers: A Century of European Contact with Tanna 1774-1874 – by Ron Adams

Indigenous Pacific Islander Eco-Literatures - Ed. by Kathy Jetnil-Kijiner, Leora Kava, Craig Santos Perez

Island Queens and Mission Wives: How Gender and Empire Remade Hawaii’s Pacific World – by Jennifer Thigpen

Isles of Illusion – Letters from the South Sea – by Asterisk

John Frum He Come – by Edward Rice

John Geddie – Hero of the New Hebrides – by James Falconer

Knowledge and Power in a South Pacific Society – by Lamont Lindstrom

Life in Feejee – Or Five Years Among the Cannibals – by Mary Wallis

Man Belong Mrs. Queen – Adventures with the Philip Worshippers – by Matthew Baylis

Maternities and Modernities – colonial and postcolonial experiences in Asia and the Pacific – Ed. By Kalpana Ram and Margaret Jolly

Mauri Ola – Contemporary Polynesian Poems in English – Whetu Moana II – Ed. by Albert Wendt, Reina Whattiri and Robert Sullivan

Missionary Life Among the Savages – by George Patterson

Nabanga – An illustrated anthology of the oral traditions of Vanuatu – Collected and transcribed by Paul Gardissat

Nature, Culture and History – the “Knowing” of Oceania – by KR Howe

Nguna Texts – by Albert J Shütz

No Longer Captives of the Past – The story of reconciliation on Erromango – by Carol E. Mayer, Anna Naupa and Vanessa Warri

Nuana – Pacific Writing in English Since 1980 – Ed. by Albert Wendt

Pacific Futures – Past and Present – Ed. by Warwick Anderson, Miranda Johnson and Barbara Brooks

Paul Gaugin – The Writings of a Savage – Ed. by Daniel Guerin

Person and Place – Ideas, Ideals, and the Practice of Sociality on Vanua Lava, Vanuatu – by Sabine C. Hess

Pidgin Phrasebook – Lonely Planet

Representing the South Pacific: Colonial Discourse from Cook to Gaugin - by Rod Edmond

Saints and Savages – The Story of Five Years in the New Hebrides – by Robert Lamb

Sea People: The Puzzle of Polynesia – by Christina Thompson

Sista, Stanap Strong! A Vanuatu Women’s Anthology - Ed. by Mikeala Nyman, Rebecca Tobo Olul-Hossen

Some Modern Poetry from Vanuatu – Ed. by Albert Wendt

Taf Tumas - by multiple writers

Tanna Times: Islanders in the World – by Lamont Lindstrom

Terra Nullius: A Journey Through No One’s Land – by Sven Lindqvist

The Last Heathen: Encounters with Ghosts and Ancestors in Melanesia – by Charles Montgomery

The New Hebrides and Christian Missions: With a Sketch of the Labor Traffic and Notes of a Cruise Through the Group in the Mission Vessel –by Robert Steel

The Last Resort - by Sarah Stodola

The Other Side – Ways of Being and Place in Vanuatu – by John Patrick Taylor

The Tree and the Canoe – History and Ethnogeography of Tanna – by Joël Bonnemaison (trans. by Josée Pénot-Demetry

Tradewinds and Coconuts – A Reminiscence and Recipes from the Pacific Islands – by Jennifer Brennan

Tuhituhi – William Hodges, Cook’s Painter in the South Pacific – by Laurence Simmons

Vanuatu & New Caledonia – Lonely Planet

Vanuatu Daily Post

Waves of Knowing – A Seascape Epistemology – by Karin Amimoto Ingersoll

We Are the Ocean – Selected Works – by Epeli Hau`ofa

White Flights – Race, Fiction and the American Imagination – by Jess Row

Women in Vanuatu: Analyzing Challenges to Economic Participation – by Chakriya Bowman, Jozefina Cutura, Amanda Ellis, Clare Manuel

Women of the Place – Kastom, Colonialism and Gender in Vanuatu – by Margaret Jolly

The following is a large, but incomplete list of books, essays, websites and resources that inspired and guided the writing of The Sea Between Two Shores.

Other relevant works may be added from time to time.