Reviews of the 2010 Festival:

Take a look at what our previous authors had to say about the Festival.

LITERALLY WORLD CLASS, The Nation, Sunday 7 February, 2010 - http://www.nation.lk/2010/02/07/eyefea6.htm

A MAJOR EVENT FOR BOOK-LOVERS, Dawn, Wednesday 3 February, 2010
http://www.dawn.com/wps/wcm/connect/dawn-content-library/dawn/the-newspaper/columnists/14-irfan-husain-the-fourth-galle-literary-festival-320-zj-05

HEAD TO THE TOTALLY-UNSTUFFY, THOUROUGHLY EXHILARATING GALLE LITERARY FESTIVAL, The Sunday Times, Sunday 7 February 2010
http://www.sundaytimes.lk/100207/Plus/plus_18.html

A PLATFORM FOR SERIOUS ARTISTS TO FEATURE THEIR WORK, The Sunday Times, Sunday 7 February 2010
http://www.sundaytimes.lk/100207/Magazine/sundaytimesmagazine_01.html

Literary Websites

Abe books - www.abebooks.com - Great second hand books.
Gutenberg - www.gutenberg.org
Poetry archive - www.poetryarchive.org
Bookslut - www.bookslut.com
Ready steady book - www.readysteadybook.com
Guardian books - www.books.guardian.co.uk 
Siyahi Literary Consultancy - www.siyahi.in

Other Literary Festivals

These are some of our favourites
 
January
Jaipur Festival -  www.jaipurfestival.org/literature_festival.html
 
March
Shanghai Literary Festival - www.m-restaurantgroup.com
Oxford - www.oxfordliteraryfestival.com

May
Hay on Wye - http://www.hayfestival.com/hayfestival/programme.asp
Charleston - www.charleston.org.uk/charlestonfestival/  

Festival of Asian Literature - London - www.festivalofasianliterature.com
 
June
Immrama, Lismore - http://www.lismore-immrama.com/index.shtml 

July
West Cork Literary festival - www.westcorkliteraryfestival.ie

August
FLIP, Brazil - www.flip.org.br
Byron Bay - www.byronbaywritersfestival.com.au
 
September
Hay Festival, Segovia, Spain - www.hayfestival.co.uk/segovia

October
Ubud - www.ubudwritersfestival.com

Henley Literary Festival - www.henleyliteraryfestival.co.uk

Specialist Book Publishers

Persephone Books: http://www.persephonebooks.co.uk/
Persephone prints mainly neglected fiction and non-fiction by women, for women and about women. The titles are chosen to appeal to busy women who rarely have time to spend in ever-larger bookshops and who would like to have access to a list of books designed to be neither too literary nor too commercial
 
Eland Books
http://www.travelbooks.co.uk/about.asp
Eland specializes in keeping the classics of travel literature in print

Blaft publications: www.blaft.com
Blaft Publications is an independent publishing house based in Chennai, India.
Our list includes bestselling Indian crime novels, experimental fiction, pulp art, and graphic novels.
 
Sort of books: www.sortof.co.uk
Publish few but wonderful books
 
Perera Hussein publishing www.ph-books.com

To enable and encourage talented South Asian writers to gain exposure and recognition

Bookshops

Lutyens & Rubinstein
21 Kensington Park Road,
London W11 2EU
0207 229 1010
bookshop@lutyensrubinstein.co.uk

The Travel Bookshop
13-15 Blenheim Crescent

London  W11 2E 020 7229 5260

020 7229 5260

post@thetravelbookshop.com

www.thetravelbookshop.com

Books for Cooks
4 Blenheim Crescent
London W11 1NN
020 7221 1992     

info@booksforcooks.com
www.booksforcooks.com

Galleries specialising in Sri Lankan Art
 
The Noble Sage, London - www.thenoblesage.com
 
Saskia Fernando Gallery, Colombo - www.saskiafernandogallery.com
 
The Red Dot Gallery, Colombo - www.theertha.org/Red-Dot-Gallery
 
Colombo Art Biennale - www.colomboartbiennale.com