NOVEL October 2026 …. Outpost of Empire by Shavindra Fernando
Available on Amazon and Waterstones, Kindle Edition £ 3.50 Paperback £15.99 …. 637 Pages 38 Chapters freeview first 20 pages
A political allegory set in a tropical island paradise. The story unfolds in the Republic of Lackadasia, in the thrall of neo-colonial manipulation by the Dominion of Burgherbugaria. It is a story of the silence of an island republic, quietly weaponized by large sharks that lurked beneath the surface of her strategic waters. The Dominion waives the rules. The division of Lackadasia had been a vital interest in the Indo-Pacific, for an empire addicted to command.
According to its imperial theology; it is destined to govern the human race, in any corner of the earth. Lackadasia’s big brotherly neighbour, was an imperial proxy used to shatter the islands deterrence, and reduce her to a flag, an anthem, and nothing more.
One Christmas eve when bombs exploded in her Roman Catholic churches, Jihadists were blamed. Then the natives became suspicious. There was speculation within the grey area of fighting global terrorism, if the preacher was the perpetrator.
The greater nations brushed aside the “conspiracy theories”, to rush to Lackadasia in her hour of need, with the milk of human kindness. She needed their protection from global terrorism, it was proclaimed.
by the same author
NOVEL October 2024 ………… The Vague Poetess by Shavindra Fernando, …. Available on Amazon and Waterstones, Kindle Edition £ 6.99 Paperback £10.50 …. 255 Pages 14 Chapters freeview first 20 pages
A political allegory on the run up to an insurrection. Third edition published in England in 2024. Recalled as a lost revolution novel, as a Marxist led coalition turned tables within a Westminster style democracy, and took power in Sri Lanka.
AUTHOR
Shavindra Fernando has worked as a reporter. He read English & Classics at the University of Peradeniya in Sri Lanka, and took International Relations & Ethnic Politics as a Reuter Fellow at the University of Oxford in England.
SINHALA TRANSLATION December 2014
The Vague Poetess (1999) was translated into Sinhala in 2014 as නොඉඳුල් කිවිඳිය (Noindul Kivindia) by Upul Abeyrathne, Professor of Political Science at the University of Peradeniya in Sri Lanka.
Availability: inquire from abeyrathne.upul@gmail.com; abeyrathne.upul@arts.pdn.ac.lk;
‘What is timely about this novel is its insistence upon an interiority that betrays an overlapping crux of ignorance, fear, and desire. [But] Fernando’s depiction of horrific violence is no fiction. By turns beautiful, comic, close, perceptive, and painfully aware, Fernando’s story makes its point: ‘You can’t be playing the fool in the middle of a revolution.’ …………. James Methven, Professor of English, University of Oxford, England
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As Sri Lanka rebuilds its shattered society, a gripping novel revisits a seminal moment of crisis.
NOVEL October 2026 ……. Outpost of Empire by Shavindra Fernando, …
Available on Amazon and Waterstones ……… Kindle Edition £ 3.50 Paperback £15.99
637 Pages 38 Chapters freeview first 20 pages
A political allegory set in a tropical island paradise. The story unfolds in the Republic of Lackadasia, in the thrall of neo-colonial manipulation by the Dominion of Burgherbugaria. It is a story of the silence of an island republic, quietly weaponized by large sharks that lurked beneath the surface of her strategic waters. The Dominion waives the rules. The division of Lackadasia had been a vital interest in the Indo-Pacific, for an empire addicted to command.
According to its imperial theology; it is destined to govern the human race, in any corner of the earth. Lackadasia’s big brotherly neighbour, was an imperial proxy used to shatter the islands deterrence, and reduce her to a flag, an anthem, and nothing more.
One Christmas eve when bombs exploded in her Roman Catholic churches, Jihadists were blamed. Then the natives became suspicious. There was speculation within the grey area of fighting global terrorism, if the preacher was the perpetrator.
The greater nations brushed aside the “conspiracy theories”, to rush to Lackadasia in her hour of need, with the milk of human kindness. She needed their protection from global terrorism, it was proclaimed.
by the same author
NOVEL October 2024
The Vague Poetess by Shavindra Fernando
Available on Amazon and Waterstones
Kindle Edition £ 6.99 Paperback £10.50
255 Pages 14 Chapters freeview first 20 pages
A political allegory on the run up to an insurrection. Third edition published in England in 2024. Recalled as a lost revolution novel, as a Marxist led coalition turned tables within a Westminster style democracy, and took power in Sri Lanka.
AUTHOR: Shavindra Fernando has worked as a reporter. He read English & Classics at the University of Peradeniya in Sri Lanka, and took International Relations & Ethnic Politics as a Reuter Fellow at the University of Oxford in England.
SINHALA TRANSLATION December 2014
The Vague Poetess (1999) was translated into Sinhala in 2014 as නොඉඳුල් කිවිඳිය (Noindul Kivindia) by Upul Abeyrathne, Professor of Political Science at the University of Peradeniya in Sri Lanka.
Availability: inquire from abeyrathne.upul@gmail.com; abeyrathne.upul@arts.pdn.ac.lk;
‘What is timely about this novel is its insistence upon an interiority that betrays an overlapping crux of ignorance, fear, and desire. [But] Fernando’s depiction of horrific violence is no fiction. By turns beautiful, comic, close, perceptive, and painfully aware, Fernando’s story makes its point: ‘You can’t be playing the fool in the middle of a revolution.’
James Methven, Professor of English, University of Oxford, England
As Sri Lanka rebuilds its shattered society, a gripping novel revisits a seminal moment of crisis. On an idyllically beautiful university campus set among the hills of Sri Lanka, a student theatre company is rehearsing a production of Blood Wedding, Frederico Garcia Lorca’s gripping exploration of love, hate and divided loyalty. Soon the Edenic life on campus is transformed into a deadly real-world drama of rebellion and reprisal.
Richard Simon, Author and Historian , Colombo, Sri Lanka
On an idyllically beautiful university campus set among the hills of Sri Lanka, a student theatre company is rehearsing a production of Blood Wedding, Frederico Garcia Lorca’s gripping exploration of love, hate and divided loyalty. Soon the Edenic life on campus is transformed into a deadly real-world drama of rebellion and reprisal.
Richard Simon, Author and Historian , Colombo, Sri Lanka
