Kathryn Lomer

Will and Summer meet online and strike up a friendship based on coincidence. Summer lives in Will's old hometown, Kettering, a small Tasmanian coastal community. Summer isn't telling the whole truth about herself, but figures it doesn't matter if they never see each other in person, right? When Will returns to Kettering, the two finally meet and Summer can no longer hide her secret - she is deaf. Can Summer and Will find a way to be friends in person even though they speak a completely different language?

Talk Under Water

A novel about finding yourself, your friends and your future Only a day ago, things were normal. As normal as this year gets anyway. Tilda Braint is nearly sixteen, restless and having trouble figuring out what on earth she's supposed to do next. Living in a small coastal town doesn't help either. When two seals land in the middle of Tilda's life, they turn it upside down. They're a long way from home and may well be lost. For Tilda, the seals may turn out to be in exactly the right place at exactly the right time. What Now, Tilda B? is a new young adult novel by Kathryn Lomer, award-winning author of the CBCA Notable Book, The Spare Room.

What Now, Tilda B?

This family, she said very slowly, is the Titantic. She looked up at me and added something about an iceberg. Journeys take on many forms ...... Akira is sent by his family to Japan to learn English in Australia, a journey into a world very different from his own. Akira's homestay hosts, the Moffat family, are not quite what he was expecting. But then, what does he know about Australians? In this tender and evocative tale, Kathryn Lomer takes us into two cultures, into lives connected by grief and uncertainty but with hope in common. It is the story of a journey into belonging, understanding and empowerment ...... where the first steps are often the hardest. AWARDS FOR THE SPARE ROOM CBCA Notable Book Courier-Mail Book of the Year Award for Younger Readers Children's Peace Literature Award Festival Award for Children's Literature

The Spare Room

Only a day ago, things were normal.aAs normal as this year gets anyway. Tilda Braint is nearly sixteen, restless and having trouble figuring out what on earth sheOCOs supposed to do next. Living in a small coastal town doesn't help either. When two seals land in the middle of Tilda's life, they turn it upside down. They're a long way from home and may well be lost. For Tilda, the seals may turn out to be in exactly the right place at exactly the right time. A novel about finding yourself, your friends and your future"

Light and shadow, love and loss, the extraordinary and the everyday are captured through the lens of this evocative new collection of fiction. Camera Obscura moves through Greece, Italy and France, across to Japan and into the Australian suburbs, as its characters take journeys into themselves and away from their pasts. A mother's shattered view of the world is healed through her friendship with a blind man, and a mortician, unable to engage in life, finds solace among the dead. A couple plays out the final moments of a fading love, while an old man sets out to rekindle an enduring love from long ago. Using a poet's ear and a photographer's eye, Kathryn Lomer infuses her writing with a distinctive irony and an intuitive understanding of the human experience.

Camera Obscura

This family, she said very slowly, is the Titantic. She looked up at me and added something about an iceberg.Journeys take on many forms ...Akira is sent by his family to Japan to learn English in Australia, a journey into a world very different from his own.Akira’s homestay hosts, the Moffat family, are not quite what he was expecting. But then, what does he know about Australians?In this tender and evocative tale, Kathryn Lomer takes us into two cultures, into lives connected by grief and uncertainty but with hope in common. It is the story of a journey into belonging, understanding and empowerment ... where the first steps are often the hardest.

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