River of Ink is “vivid and compelling” (Mail on Sunday).

Paul Cooper “transports us to 13th-century Sri Lanka in this stunning debut. The cowardly Asanka spends his days writing love poetry and his nights with Sarasi, a beautiful maid, before the ruthless conquering of his homeland by the benign prince Kalinga Magha.

Magha instructs Asanka to translate an ancient epic from Sanskrit to Tamil so that he can understand it. Asanka, spurred on by his mistress, slips in mistranslations, ones that subtly mock the tyrant –  a small rebellion that carries the unlikely poet-revolutionary into great danger.” (The Times)

The Times chose the novel as one of their Books of the Year 2016.

The paperback was published on January 26th 2017.

Buy it here.