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Heaven’s Edge

by Romesh Gunesekera

“Gunesekera evokes his birthplace, Sri Lanka, as he presents a love story made more brilliant and more sweet by the destruction all around.” –Monica Mehta, Entertainment Weekly…

Pablo Neruda

…Neruda was an active politician, as well a writer, and held administrative positions in Spain, Burma (Myanmar), Indonesia, and Ceylon (Sri Lanka). He was also forced into exile 1949 because…

Romesh Gunesekera

Romesh Gunesekera grew up in Sri Lanka and lives in London. His first novel, Reef, was shortlisted for both the Booker Prize and The Guardian First Fiction Prize in 1994….

The Beholder’s Eye

by Walt Harrington

“Aims to dispel the old journalistic clich”: that a journalist writing about him/herself is always ‘self-indulgent and, quite likely, narcissistic.” He couldn’t have put together a better lineup of writers…

Worm: the First Digital World War, by Mark Bowden

by Mark Bowden

The fascinating story of the Conficker computer worm and the cyber security elites who have joined forces in a high-tech game of cops and robbers to find its creators and…

A Diamond in the Desert

by Jo Tatchell

Part history, part memoir, part travel guide, this search for the mysteries behind one of the world’s richest cities is “the best book . . . on the Gulf coast…

Walpola Rahula

The Venerable Dr. Walpola Sri Rahula, himself a Buddhist monk and scholar, received the traditional monastic training and education in his ancient religion in Ceylon and held eminent positions in…

Alan Spence

…the Year Award for his novel Stone Garden. He lives in Edinburgh where he and his wife run the Sri Chinmoy Meditation Centre. He is currently writer-in-residence at Aberdeen University….

Vanilla

by Tim Ecott

“While the scientific information is plentiful, detailed and readable, as the title suggests it is a story of the author’s travels, his love affair with the exotic islands in the…