Notes from Ceylon

Confessions   St Augustine This is, apparently, the world’s first autobiography. The parts of the narrative that deal with the author’s pers...

When people project their thoughts along what even we greybeards no longer call the Information Superhighway, nuance and subtlety seem to ge...

The Many Faces of the Kandyan Kingdom by Gananath Obeyesekere In this slender but fact-filled volume, the author presents an alternative and...

I normally enjoy the work of Umberto Eco. A professor as well as a novelist, he all but invented the field of semiology, the study of the me...

The Order of Time Carlo Rovelli A strange, slim, captivating volume. Its scope is wide-ranging, the writing dense in terms of content and re...

She H. Rider Haggard A lowbrow classic,   She  is a book for schoolboys of all ages from twelve to... well, two thousand, I suppose. I can’t...

The Book of Imaginary Beings by Jorge Luis Borges  A literary bestiary. The Classical monsters, from Kronos to the satyrs, are well represen...