Step into Cryptoland, a plain‑spoken exploration of the wild frontier where brilliance collides with folly, greed, and utopian dreams. Written by a seasoned financial sector expert, this book unpacks Bitcoin, blockchains, NFTs and the Metaverse in clear, story‑driven language that cuts through jargon and hype. You’ll journey past trillion‑dollar bubbles, the darknet, Bored Apes, to a failed Fijian crypto paradise.Cryptoland dissects day‑trading fantasies, influencer‑led schemes, DA...

Imagine living in the country of your birth, and of your ancestors, yet being treated as a third‑class citizen. This is the plight of Solomoni people, whose forebears came to Fiji from the Solomon Islands as indentured labourers in the late 19th century.Over the last 150 years, the Anglican Church has played a pivotal role in helping them, but it now faces its own challenges.Their story includes massive injustices inflicted by Australian blackbirders, the economic forces th...

Vaitupu is a sleepy island in the Pacific, part of the tiny country of Tuvalu.In the days after the end of World War II, their leaders decide to buy a remote island in Fiji, sight unseen, after a meeting with the former headmaster of their school, who was passing by the island in a ship.The British Colonial authorities in Fiji let them buy it and populate it with their own natives.This true story documents how this came about, traces the varied career of the headmas...

This Is Our Home takes you back 3000 years to the Lapita people, the first humans to settle the Fiji Islands, and follows the evidence trail through pottery sherds, DNA, language and landscape to reconstruct their world. It then sets that scientific story alongside the powerful iTaukei origin myths of Lutunasobasoba, Degei and the Kaunitoni voyage, showing how a colonial administration, missionaries and local chiefs together shaped a national story that was never as ancient as it claimed.

Here is a Christian story with a difference. “2057” is a 45 minute short story.A South Korean doomsday cult lives in Fiji, a promised land, where the cult sent 400 of its members to await the end of days.A cult member reads letters she wrote to her granddaughter, chronicling her faith and her life. Her relationship with her pastor, her intimate relationship with a cryptocurrency dude, her faith, the woeful future of the world.It seems like everything the cult believ...