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- Location(s): Sri Lanka
- Genre(s): Satire, Thriller
- Era(s): 1980s
Ashok Ferrey’s first novel is part satire, part thriller, part comedy of manners. Set in 1980s Colombo it contains over twenty characters, Which he fixes with merciless wit and pin-sharp accuracy to the dusty velvet boards of his cabinet...
- Location(s): Sri Lanka, Sydney
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1930s-2010
Song of the Sun God is about the wisdom, mistakes and sacrifices of our past that enable us to live more freely in the future. Nala and Rajan, a young couple, begin their married life in 1946, on the...
Still Counting the Dead: Survivors of Sri Lanka’s Hidden War
- Location(s): Sri Lanka
- Genre(s): Nonfiction
- Era(s): 2009
The tropical island of Sri Lanka is a paradise for tourists, but in 2009 it became a hell for its Tamil minority, as decades of civil war between the Tamil Tiger guerrillas and the government reached its bloody climax....
- Location(s): Sri Lanka
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1980s
The setting is Sri Lanka, 1980, and it is the season of monsoons. Fourteen-year-old Amrith is caught up in the life of the cheerful, well-to-do household in which he is being raised by his vibrant Auntie Bundle and kindly...
- Location(s): Sri Lanka
- Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
- Era(s): 1930s
No, 8 in the Inspector de Silva mystery series set in 1930s CEYLON When an American millionaire and his glamorous daughter visit Nuala, the splendour they bring to the town’s high society is soon tragically tarnished by a vicious...
- Location(s): Sri Lanka
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): 1987
Two days before Christmas in 1987, at the age of 17, Niromi de Soyza found herself in an ambush as part of a small platoon of militant Tamil Tigers fighting government forces in the bloody civil war that was...
- Location(s): Colombo
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Eddie trusted, an english school teacher in colombo, wants to spend his life with menaka rupasinghe, a vibrant sri lankan beauty, but her orthodox terror of a father stands in his way. If eddie wants to wed menaka, it...
- Location(s): Sri Lanka
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1983
When rumors of civil war between the ruling Sinhalese and the Tamils in the northern sector of Sri Lanka reach those who live in the south, somehow it seems not to be happening in their own country. At least...
- Location(s): Horton Plains
- Genre(s): Adventure, Fiction
- Era(s): 21st Century
Four close friends begin a search for the mysterious ‘beast’ in a dark and spooky wilderness, but little do they know that they’ll discover much more about themselves on this beautifully bleak young adult adventure. Love, danger, and the...
- Location(s): Sri Lanka
- Genre(s): Children
- Era(s): N/A
From the author of The Girl Who Stole an Elephant comes another brilliant escapade for 9+ readers! A thrilling adventure set in fictional Sri Lanka, jam-packed with peril and kidnap and a huge blue whale! Razi, a local fisherboy,...
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