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Books are listed in order of year of publication - newest titles are at the top. There are 11 books in this booklist
£9.99 paperback (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781914502071 | ISBN 10: 1914502078
WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE 2022 SHORTLISTED FOR THE RSL ONDAATJE PRIZE 2023 An epic, searing satire of Sri Lanka. Colombo, 1990. Maali Almeida, war photographer, gambler and closet queen, has woken up dead in what seems like a ... more
View book details£8.99 paperback (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781783786961 | ISBN 10: 1783786965
Shortlisted for the 2021 Booker Prize It begins with a message: a telephone call informing Krishan that his grandmother”s former care-giver, Rani, has died in unexpected circumstances, at the bottom of a well in her village in the north, her ... more
View book details£9.99 paperback (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781910312315 | ISBN 10: 1910312312
“We architects must be idealists. We construct not just individual buildings, but whole cities. We plan cities, and in doing so, change lives.” Plastic Emotions is inspired by the life of Minnette de Silva – a forgotten feminist icon and ... more
View book details£12.99 paperback (2018) - ISBN 13: 9780385544023 | ISBN 10: 0385544022
Globe and Mail bestseller, The Boat People is an extraordinary novel about a group of refugees who survive a perilous ocean voyage only to face the threat of deportation amid accusations of terrorism. When a rusty cargo ship carrying Mahindan an ... more
View book details£8.99 paperback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781846592003 | ISBN 10: 1846592003
In Buddhist myth, those that have desired too much during their lifetime may be reborn as hungry ghosts spirits with a stomach so large they can never be full. Six-year-old Shivan is boarded up in his grandmothers mansion in Sri Lanka. ... more
View book details£8.99 paperback (2014) - ISBN 13: 9780241001547 | ISBN 10: 0241001544
Randy Boyagoda's Beggar's Feast is a tour de force of a novel set in Sri Lanka about a man living in defiance of fate. Sam Kandy, born in 1899 in a poor village in the heart of Ceylon and abandoned by his family ten years later at the gates ... more
View book details£9.99 paperback (2012) - ISBN 13: 9780099555681 | ISBN 10: 0099555689
One of the most acclaimed debuts of the year - a rumbustuous, brilliant novel about Sri Lanka, cricket and the search for a legendary sportsman. Retired sportswriter WG Karunasena is dying. He will spend his final months drinking arrack, maki ... more
View book details£8.99 paperback (2011) - ISBN 13: 9780141040073 | ISBN 10: 0141040076
Since her days in the orphanage, Latha has been a companion and servant to Thara, a more fortunate girl her own age. But since her trip to the hill country when she caught her first glimpse of a rose, Latha has known she was destined for a better lif ... more
View book details£9.99 paperback (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780007301560 | ISBN 10: 0007301561
Opening dramatically with the horrors of the 2005 London bombings, this is the profoundly moving story of a country on the brink of civil war and a child's struggle to come to terms with loss. London. On a bright July morning a series of bombs br ... more
View book details£8.99 paperback (2008) - ISBN 13: 9780007233663 | ISBN 10: 0007233663
A lyrical and profoundly moving story of love, loss and civil war, set in Sri Lanka, London and Venice. When author Theo Samarajeeva returns to his native Sri Lanka after his wife's death, he hopes to escape his gnawing loss amid the lush lands ... more
View book details£8.99 paperback (2007) - ISBN 13: 9781905147595 | ISBN 10: 1905147597
Winner of the Sagittarius Prize. Shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers' Prize. A powerful three-generational saga of a Sri Lankan family's search for coherence and continuity in a country broken by colonial occupation and riven by ethnic wars ... more
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