The various story-collections known commonly as ‘The Island Tales‘ are a timeless Antaman literary phenomenon.
There are three variations, each of which is notable as a discrete collection:
Tales For Our Times
…contemporary micro-fictions collected by Patrick Newman, Andrew Halsall Smith and other modern-day storytellers
Contos das Ilhas
…Fernando Costa de Alfandega’s much-cherished classic tales of places, characters, anecdotes, traditions and folklore gathered on his lifelong journey of curiosity
The ‘Tales Of The Islands’ collection
…the five-volume collection of twentieth-century tales, imagined and re-imagined by Samuel Whitman Cooke