THE ST HELENA INSTITUTE

Poetry and Fiction:
a St Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha reading list

compiled by Alexander Hugo Schulenburg



 

Anon.  The Baptism of Slaves at St. Helena  (London: Bell and Dally, 1862)

Anon.  ‘The Green Hand: A “Short” Yarn, Part X’, The Gentleman’s Magazine  (June 1850)

Anon.  ‘A tale of four Christmas Eves, long years ago in St. Helena’, supplement to The Mosquito, 22.12.1888

Anon. [A Correspondent]  ‘A Fragment’, St. Helena Monthly Register (1810)

Bailey, John  Nine Tales from the Magic Island  (typescript, 1992)

Christianse, Yvette  Castaway  (London: Duke University Press,1999)

Cornwell, Bernard  Sharpe’s Devil: Richard Sharpe and the Emperor, 1820-21  (London: Harper Collins, 1992)

Costain, Thomas B.  The Last Love  (New York: Doubleday & Co., 1963)

E.D.L., ‘A Tour of St. Helena’ in The St. Helena “Wirebird”, Vol.III, No.100 (1963)

George, Basil  Stories from the Island of St Helena  (typescript, 1960)

George, Basil  The Pepper Tree  (Bishop Wilton: Wilton 65, 1994)

George, Basil  The Bayan Tree  (St Helena: Bussy Bee Books, 2002)

Gielgud, Val  Confident Morning  (London: Collins, 1943)

Goodwin, Francis  The Man in the Moone; or, A Discourse of a Voyage Thither  (London: 1638)

Hansen, Brookes  The Monsters of St Helena  (New York:  Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2003)

Pynchon, Thomas  Mason & Dixon  (London: Jonathan Cape, 1997)

Robertson, Bobby  The Stowaways and Other Stories from St. Helena  (Bishop Wilton: Wilton 65, 1996)

Robertson, Rober MacMillan  The Proud and the Passionate, 2 vols  (Scunthorpe: Robert Macmillan Robertson, 2003)

St. Helena Day Poetry Competition, May 1983 (St Helena: Education Department, 1983)

Thompson, Edward  ‘St Helena or The Isle of Love’, in Catherine Neal Parke (ed)  The Plays of Edward Thompson  (London: Garland Publishing, 1980; orig. 1776)

Watt, Duncan  The Sands of the Skeleton Coast  (Lutterworth: Tynron Press, 1993)

Watt, Duncan  Skulduggery in the South Atlantic  (Lutterworth: Tynron Press, 1995)

Wilkins, Vaughan  Being Met Together  (London: Jonathan Cape, 1944)

Yon, Keith  Slave Song: A Choral Piece  (typescript, 1974)

Yon, Keith  Watchcum and Other Fables for Island Children  (typescript, c.1976)

 

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