Blogs in November 2023

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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Savage Beasts 22nd May 2023

Calcutta, 1757. Bengal is on the brink of war. The East India Company, led by the fearsome Sir Peter Chilcott, are advancing and nobody is safe. Meena, the Nawab’s neglected and abused daughter, finds herself falling under the spell...

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Brotherless Night 8th February 2023

Sixteen-year-old Sashi wants to become a doctor. But over the next decade, as a vicious civil war tears through her hometown of Jaffna, her dream takes her on a different path as she sees those around her, including her...

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