LIBRARY ACQUISITONS – SEPTEMBER 2025

VICTOR  MELDER  SRI  LANKA LIBRARY
(FOR DETAILS OF THE LIBRARY, please contact: Hemal or Victor)
Telephone: Hemal + 61 0427 725 740 or Victor 61 3909 4040
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THOSE WISHING TO DONATE BOOKS & OTHER PUBLICATIONS TO THIS LIBRARY, THEY ARE MOST WELCOME. PLEASE CONTACT HEMAL OR VICTOR AT ABOVE ADDRESS, BY EMAIL OR TELEPHONE. Thank You.

                                       ACQUISITIONS   FOR  THE  MONTH  OF  SEPTEMBER  2025

BOOKS.

More Read

Loving Memory Of LORENZO SAMPATH JAYASINGHE

Sri Lanka fall short after spirited run chase in first one-dayer against Pakistan. Agha and Rauff swing the scales in Pakistan’s favour. – BY TREVINE RODRIGO IN MELBOURNE. (eLanka Sports Editor).

SRI JAYAMINI ATTANAYAKE REPUTED JOURNALIST APPOINTED DIRECTOR OF MEDIA AND CORDINATOR OF KANDY DISTRICT BY THE ‘UNIVERSAL HUMAN RIGHTS ORGANIZATION’ – By Sunil Thenabadu

1. Tears For My Roots, Poems by Asoka Weerasinghe, 2018.
2. Tears For My Roots, Poems by Asoka Weerasinghe, 1994.

                    (No’s 1 -2, Donated by the Author, Ottawa, Canada)

3. “True Catholicism” in Colonial South Asia. The Independent Catholics in Ceylon and India in the late Nineteenth and early Twentieth

     Centuries edited by Kalus Koschorke & Johannes Meier, 2023  

4. Sri Lanka, Serendib and The Silk Road of the Sea by Sanjiva Wijesinha, 2025

                    (Donated by Roger Thiedeman, Keysborough, Vic)

5. An Inspector De Silva Mystery, Rough Time in Nuala by Harriet Steel, 1993.
6. An Inspector De Silva Mystery, Long Odds in Nuala by Harriet Steel, 2023.
7. An Inspector De Silva Mystery, Retreat at Nauala by Harriet Steel, 2024.
8. An Inspector De Silva Mystery, Changing Times at Nuala by Harriet Steel, 2025.

    (No’ 5 – 8, Donated by Cuthbert  Lethbridge, Noble Park, Vic)   

MAGAZINES.

NEWSLETTERS & PERIODICALS

1. Community Newsletter, Burgher Association (Australia) Inc, Spring Edition, September 2025.

OTHERS.

1. Burgher Association (Australia) Inc – Notice of AGM, 2025/2026
2. Tobacco Smuggling in Sri Lanka – A Scoping Study by Erandathie Pathiraja et al, Institute of Policy Studies, Sri Lanka, Occasional 

    Paper Series No 75, July 2025, 44pp.

3.  The Aragalaya Protest Movement and the Struggle for Political Change in Sri Lanka by David G. Timberman, Carnegie Endowment

                     For International Peace, 2025, 39pp    

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