Roma Tearne is a Sri Lankan-born, Oxford-based artist, film-maker and writer. She trained as a painter, completing her MA at the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art, Oxford.
Her debut novel, Mosquito, was shortlisted for the 2007 Costa Book Awards First Novel prize. The Swimmer was longlisted for the Orange Prize in 2011 and Asian Man Booker in 2012.
Roma Tearne was recently writer-in-residence at the Imperial War Museum.
9 Ebooks de Roma Tearne
Roma Tearne: The White City
A permanently frozen London is the setting for Roma Tearne’s ‘thoughtful exploration’ [The Guardian] of survival in a dystopian near-future. ‘Tearne reminds us that, woven into London’s cosmopolitani …
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Roma Tearne: Brixton Beach
Described as ‘rich and satisfying’ by The Times, Brixton Beach is the story of an artistic young girl forced to leave war-torn Sri Lanka, only to find that the shadow of violence has followed her to …
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Roma Tearne: Mosquito
A lyrical and profoundly moving story of love, loss and civil war, set in Sri Lanka, London and Venice.When author Theo Samarajeeva returns to his native Sri Lanka after his wife’s death, he hopes to …
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Roma Tearne: Bone China
An epic novel of love, loss and a family uprooted, set in the contrasting landscapes of war-torn Sri Lanka and immigrant London.Grace de Silva, wife of the shiftless but charming Aloysius, has five c …
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Roma Tearne: Brixton Beach
Opening dramatically with the horrors of the 2005 London bombings, this is the profoundly moving story of a country on the brink of civil war and a child’s struggle to come to terms with loss.London. …
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Roma Tearne: Swimmer
‘The Swimmer’ is a gripping, captivating novel about love, loss and what home really means.Forty-three year old Ria is used to being alone. As a child, her life changed forever with the death of her …
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Roma Tearne: Bone China
Grace de Silva, a mother of five, struggles to hold her family and her crumbling marriage together as civil unrest stirs in Sri Lanka. Her husband is charming but shiftless, and her children are pois …
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Roma Tearne: The Road to Urbino
In this ‘finely crafted novel’ [The Independent], Roma Tearne tells the story of a Tamil exile awaiting trial for art thievery. ‘Accomplished … painterly’ New York Times A story of obse …
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Monica Ali & Lisa Appignanesi: Refugee Tales
With nationalism and the far right on the rise across Europe and North America, there has never been a more important moment to face up to what we, in Britain, are doing to those who seek sanctuary. …
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