SUGGESTED READING
Version françaiseby Hilary Roots (Author)
Let brother and sister, Nini and Lolo, take you there where the sun mostly shines and the sky's mostly blue. Discover their lives through short stories and meet wondrous land and sea creatures in verse :
a strange bird that barks,
a marine inhabitant older than a dinosaur,
a dangerous fish that makes good eating …
All this and more in Tales and Rhymes from a Paradise Island. Pages to read by yourself or for parents and grandparents to share with younger ones. Step into another world.
Have fun.
* New Caledonia - Travel Survival Kit, Lonely Planet, Australia
* Vanuatu & New Caledonia - Lonely
Planet Australia
* One Rose in Bali, (2022) and *Papaya (2023). The latter unveils the virtues of this tropical and sub-tropical ‘fruit of the angels’ and presents 70 recipes using the often little-known fruit/vegetable.
Both are available for purchase through Booktopia, Barnes & Noble and Amazon.
In search of historical information
Hilary Roots, has lived on the island since 1975. Journalist by trade, she continues her research and writing about her adopted island.
She’s
interested in the handful of women convicts who were deported to Isle of Pines from France (1872-1880) along with 3000 male political deportees from the uprising of the Paris Commune. She would like to find letters, photos and any other information concerning these convict women, as well as the 50 or so other women who voluntarily joined their husbands in exile.
Hilary is also keen to find material concerning the 20 or so convicts who opted to go to Australia or New Zealand, following their amnesty in 1879/80, rather than return to France.
Contact the author by e-mail : cleoidp@canl.nc
