Blogs in April 2020

Running in the Family 10th April 2020

Twenty-five years after leaving his native Sri Lanka for the cool winters of Ontario, a chaotic dream of tropical heat and barking dogs pushes Michael Ondaatje to travel back home and revisit a childhood and a family he never...

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Swimming in the Monsoon Sea 18th November 2019

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...

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Tsunami Kids 15th October 2019

On Boxing day 2004, Rob, Paul, Matty and Rosie Forkan tragically lost their parents in the Boxing Day Tsunami that devastated Sri Lanka. Aged from 8 to 17, they subsequently faced a harrowing and solitary 200km trek across the...

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Beautiful Place 6th October 2019

Beautiful Place is a novel about leaving and losing home and making family. It is about being oppressed and angry and wanting a better life but how is a better life to be defined? The Villa Hibiscus is a...

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Reef 2nd August 2019

A single lighted match banishes Triton from his father’s home to the employ of Mister Salgado, a marine biologist obsessed by swamps, sea movements and a Sri Lankan island’s disappearing reef. Stranded in London years later, Triton plumbs the...

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