Roma Tearne

• Mar-2008
• / General Fiction
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When Grace de Silva's once-prominent family loses their vast tea estate, she has little idea how everyone's life in her lush, Eden-like homeland of Sri Lanka is about to change. Her children dream of escape -- Jacob, the eldest, wants desperately to ...

• Apr-2008
• / General Fiction
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Shortlisted for the Costa (Whitbread) 2007 First Novel Award

Set adrift by the recent death of his wife, Theo Samarajeeva abandons his comfortable writer’s life in London and returns to Sri Lanka, his war-torn homeland. There he find...

• Jun-2009
• / General Fiction
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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 London.'An ambitious, lyrical novel' TLSOpenin...

• May-2010
• / General Fiction
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• Jul-2015
• / Literary
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With 'tension [that] grips like a vice' [The Independent], The Last Pier is a gripping drama of dark family secrets in rural England from the author of Brixton Beach, Bone China and Mosquito.'Tearne charts the patterns of love and loss with beautiful...

• Oct-2017
• / Dystopian
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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 cosmopolitanism, are memories of places to which individuals ca...

• Jan-2020
• / General Fiction
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‘Every act has a past. Events don’t just materialise from nowhere.’ 

Ras, a Tamil exile in London, is awaiting trial for the theft of a Renaissance masterpiece. Searching for the truth behind her client's act, Ras's lawyer, Elizabeth ...