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Christmas in Nuala (The Inspector de Silva Mysteries Book 5)
- Location(s): Sri Lanka
- Genre(s): Historical, Novella
- Era(s): 1930s
The little town of Nuala is full of Christmas good cheer, until a brutal murder overshadows the festivities. The mystery he needs to solve baffles Inspector de Silva. It’s just as well he has his wife Jane to support...
- Location(s): Sri Lanka
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1920s
Lush and beautiful, Cinnamon Gardens is a story of intertwined lives in the gracious world of Ceylon in the 1920s In a novel of exceptional achievement, Shyam Selvadurai evokes the life of the upper classes of Colombo’s wealthy suburb,...
Dark Clouds Over Nuala. The Inspector de Silva Mysteries #2
- Location(s): Sri Lanka
- Genre(s): Mystery, Crime
- Era(s): 1930s
The Inspector de Silva Mysteries are set in Ceylon in the 1930s and offer a colourful, relaxing read. In this second book in the series, the arrival in the hill town of Nuala of the heir to an English...
- Location(s): Sri Lanka
- Genre(s): Travelogue
- Era(s): Modern
Sri Lanka is a small island with a long, violent and enthralling history. Home to thousands of wild elephants, this is a place where natural beauty has endured, indifferent to human tragedy. Journeying through its many regions – some...
Eyesha and the Great Elephant Gathering
- Location(s): Sri Lanka
- Genre(s): Children
- Era(s): Modern
Teach your children that elephants belong in the wild, that they are highly intelligent and endangered, through this engaging story. Eyesha the baby elephant visits the Minneriya Tank with her family for the first time to experience the annual...
- Location(s): Colombo
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): early 2000s
In the world of his large family, affluent Tamils living in Colombo, Arjie is an oddity, a ‘funny boy’ who prefers dressing as a girl to playing cricket with his brother. In FUNNY BOY we follow the life of...
Growing: Seven Years in Ceylon
- Location(s): Sri Lanka
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1904 - 1911
Growing is a portrait of a young man sent straight out from university to help govern Ceylon. It is doubtful that any Empire at any time has been served by such an intelligent, dutiful, hardworking and incorruptible civil servant...
High Wire in Nuala (The Inspector de Silva Mysteries #9)
- Location(s): Sri Lanka
- Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
- Era(s): 1930s
Much to the delight of the locals, a colourful Russian circus rolls into Nuala, but the fun ends abruptly when, on the opening night, a tragic accident takes place. Shanti de Silva and his wife, Jane are among the...
- Location(s): Syria, Sri Lanka
- Genre(s): Biography
‘It has always seemed to me that what I write about is humanity in extremis, pushed to the unendurable, and that it is important to tell people what really happens in wars.’ Marie Colvin, 2001 Marie Colvin was glamorous,...
- Location(s): Sri Lanka
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1983
Priyanthi Silva is born in Sri Lanka into a peaceful, loving Sinhalese family, but into a turbulent country dogged by religious and political tensions. She and her brother Hemantha grow up in Araliya Gardens, a tropical paradise full of...
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