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The Flower Boy

The Flower Boy
  • Author(s): Karen Roberts
  • Location(s): Sri Lanka
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1930s

An accomplished debut, The Flower Boy is the tragically romantic story of people from two cultures, one ruling the other, and the human passions that defy and nearly overcome social taboos. In the colonial society of 1930s Ceylon, the...

The Girl Who Lost a Leopard

The Girl Who Lost a Leopard
  • Author(s): Nizrana Farook, David Dean (illustrator)
  • 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. The third thrilling adventure set in a fictional Sri Lanka is jam-packed with peril, poachers and an endangered leopard! Selvi is a wild child who...

The Girl Who Stole an Elephant

The Girl Who Stole an Elephant
  • Author(s): Nizrana Farook
  • Location(s): Sri Lanka
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): early 21st century

Chaya, a no-nonsense, outspoken hero, leads her friends and a gorgeous elephant on a noisy, fraught, joyous adventure through the jungle where revolution is stirring and leeches lurk. Will stealing the queen’s jewels be the beginning or the end...

The Golden Wave

The Golden Wave
  • Author(s): Michele Ruth Gamburd
  • Location(s): Sri Lanka
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Nonfiction, Travelogue
  • Era(s): 2004

n December 2004 the Indian Ocean tsunami devastated coastal regions of Sri Lanka. Six months later, Michele Ruth Gamburd returned to the village where she had been conducting research for many years and began collecting residents’ stories of the...

The Match

The Match
  • Author(s): Romesh Gunesekera
  • Location(s): Sri Lanka, London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): early 2000s

As a teenager from Sri Lanka, Sunny liked to play cricket. But none of his new friends in Manila were remotely interested. That is until the gorgeous Tina arrived, all poise and perfection. Three decades on, Sunny is settled...

The Pavilion in the Clouds

The Pavilion in the Clouds
  • Author(s): Alexander McCall Smith
  • Location(s): Sri Lanka
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1938

It is 1938 and the final days of the British Empire. In a bungalow high up in the green hills above the plains of Ceylon, under a vast blue sky, live the Ferguson family: Bella, a precocious eight-year-old, her...

The Road From Elephant Pass

The Road From Elephant Pass
  • Author(s): Nihal de Silva
  • Location(s): Sri Lanka
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Adventure
  • Era(s): Early 2000s

Brand new 14th edition direct from publisher in Sri Lanka. now a major motion picture. The exciting story of an Army captain who has to escort a Liberation Tigers of Tamil eelam (LTTE) female terrorist across hostile territory dangerous...

The Sandglass

The Sandglass
  • Author(s): Romesh Gunesekera
  • Location(s): Sri Lanka, London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): early 2000s

The Sandglass tells the story of two feuding families whose lives are interlinked by the changing fortunes of postcolonial Sri Lanka. Moving back and forth between London and Sri Lanka, the novel brings to life Prins Ducal and his...

The Story of a Brief Marriage

The Story of a Brief Marriage
  • Author(s): Anuk Arudpragasam
  • Location(s): Sri Lanka
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Later 20th Century

Dinesh is a young man trapped on the frontlines between the Sri Lankan army and the Tamil Tigers. Desensitized to the horror all around him, life has been pared back to the essentials: eat, sleep, survive. All this changes...

The Sweet And Simple Kind

The Sweet And Simple Kind
  • Author(s): Yasmine Gooneratne
  • Location(s): Sri Lanka
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1948

Loyalty (and the damnable lack of it in his wife) was the thought uppermost in the mind of Sir Andrew Millbanke as he looked down at Lady Alexandra’s dead body, spread-eagled on the paved pathway of the Residency.’ And...

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