Blogs in July 2024

Two Friends on Many Roads: Travel Tales from Near and Far 3rd July 2024

Childhood reading pals Srianthi Perera and Romany Kadurugamuwa recount their travel experiences over a lifetime. The two friends have led almost parallel lives: they grew up in Sri Lanka and left their motherland soon after marriage. Srianthi lived in...

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The Sauceror’s Apprentice 19th May 2024

Randul, a young Veddah tribesman and expert in the flora and fauna of the forests of Sri Lanka, unexpectedly discovers four enormous Padparadscha sapphires. His simple life suddenly becomes more complicated. From the Sinharaja Forest of Sri Lanka to...

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THE SERPENT’S LAIR 27th November 2023

Max lands a dangerous mission on an Indian Ocean island quickly descending into chaos… Since a bomb blew him through a hotel window in Colombo, international fixer Max Donovan’s life has become more complicated. He in possession of a...

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Upon a Sleepless Isle 20th September 2023

Dense Green forests in Yala, white-sand coasts in Trincomalee, azure waters off the South Coast, Anuradhapura’s ancient temples, and cricket. Civil war, political assassinations, internally displaced communities, industrial-scale corruption. All are Sri Lanka. As are smug bureaucrats, nosy neighbours,...

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Song of the Sun God 23rd July 2023

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...

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