https://www.timetravelceylon.com/timetravellers-diary daily 0.75 2026-08-09 https://www.timetravelceylon.com/timetravellers-diary/reading-sri-lanka monthly 0.5 2026-08-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6911c71b55c6993602cd4180/69c34d10-2c65-4279-984e-2bc11e4684d3/saint.png Timetraveller's Diary - Reading Sri Lanka - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6911c71b55c6993602cd4180/3d142884-c8d4-43cd-b7ec-629126d28336/michk.png Timetraveller's Diary - Reading Sri Lanka - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6911c71b55c6993602cd4180/b50d73a3-4af0-4dfc-97ef-8d23cfeb9e34/Reef%2BGranta%2Bpa1.webp Timetraveller's Diary - Reading Sri Lanka Reef — Romesh Gunesekera Shortlisted for the Booker Prize, 1994 There are novels you read. And there are novels you almost taste. Reef is one of them. Set around a coastal household, it follows a young boy growing up under the influence of an enigmatic cook. Food, the sea, village life, nature and the changing political landscape of Sri Lanka quietly enter the story: The kitchen carries aromas of all change. And a cook can sometimes tell you more about a society than a historian can. Read this before heading south. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6911c71b55c6993602cd4180/3743497e-333d-48e7-a69e-7ea96699b353/chinaman.jpg Timetraveller's Diary - Reading Sri Lanka Chinaman: The Legend of Pradeep Mathew Shehan Karunatilaka Winner, Gratiaen Prize; DSC Prize for South Asian Literature; Commonwealth Book Prize I am not a cricket fan, but this is one of the best books to come out of the island in my humble opinion. It is simply so much more than cricket. In Karunatilaka's hands, the search for an elusive cricketer becomes an excuse to wander through Colombo, journalism, politics, drinking culture, corruption, memory, eccentric characters and the particular species of male conversation known locally as the "uncle". It is funny. It is chaotic. It is occasionally outrageous. And somewhere underneath it all is a deeply affectionate portrait of Sri Lanka. Read this if you want more than landscape and history out of this island. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6911c71b55c6993602cd4180/cb347250-2754-4a37-bc11-5bc3cfae98fe/WAVE-book-cover-800x1244.jpg Timetraveller's Diary - Reading Sri Lanka Wave — Sonali Deraniyagala PEN/Ackerley Prize; National Book Critics Circle Award finalist This is the difficult one. Wave is Sonali Deraniyagala's devastating memoir of losing her family in the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami. There is no clever way to introduce it. It is a book about grief. But it is also about landscape, memory and the strange relationship between human beings and the places we call home. If you have spent time on Sri Lanka's southern or eastern coast, you will read the sea differently afterwards. I would not recommend this as light holiday reading. I would recommend it as a book for those who want to understand how deeply a landscape can inhabit a person. https://www.timetravelceylon.com/timetravellers-diary/islandofmuseums monthly 0.5 2026-03-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6911c71b55c6993602cd4180/91011b6d-7355-4edf-838d-266ed6b28e30/Bawa+House+No+11.png Timetraveller's Diary - Island of Museums - Make it stand out Interior, No 11 Bawa House, Colombo. 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