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Monique Roffey is an award-winning Trinidadian-born British writer. House of Ashes, published in June 2014, is her most current novel, the third in a trilogy of novels set in the Caribbean. Archipelago, published in 2012, a New World odyssey which examines loss, grief and climate change, won the OCM BOCAS prize for Caribbean Literature in 2013. The White Woman on the Green Bicycle, first published in 2009, received widespread critical acclaim and was shortlisted for the Orange Prize 2010 and the Encore prize 2011. It was heralded as a major contribution to the New Generation of Caribbean fiction coming out of the region. Her erotic memoir, With the Kisses of his Mouth was published to much praise and controversy in the summer of 2011.
Awards: Costa (2020) see all
Genres: Literary Fiction, Fantasy
Novels
Sun Dog (2002)
August Frost (2003)
The White Woman On the Green Bicycle (2009)
Archipelago (2012)
House of Ashes (2014)
The Mermaid of Black Conch (2020)
Passiontide (2024)
August Frost (2003)
The White Woman On the Green Bicycle (2009)
Archipelago (2012)
House of Ashes (2014)
The Mermaid of Black Conch (2020)
Passiontide (2024)
Novellas and Short Stories
Anthologies edited
Non fiction show
Awards
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Award nominations
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Monique Roffey recommends
Love Forms (2025)
Claire Adam
"Love Forms is an exquisitely written and uniquely Caribbean novel about the hard edges of social pressure and the soft longing of mother love. I was swept way from page one to the kicker ending. A story of what - and who - is hidden in almost every family, Adam writes a compelling and tender narrative which feels as old as the hills and yet acutely contemporary. It felt true and pure and very feminine. Read this book and give it to your friends."
A House for Miss Pauline (2025)
Diana McCaulay
"Diana McCaulay is one of the Caribbean's finest writers. As an environmental activist, a Jamaican woman, and a writer of both contemporary and historical fiction, her novels are building blocks of the current Caribbean canon and will be read for years to come."
The God of Good Looks (2023)
Breanne Mc Ivor
"Part ribald farce, part feminist tract, part love letter to an island, The God of Good Looks takes a look at Caribbean island life and culture rarely seen in books, that of its bristling, competitive carnival culture and beauty world. McIvor writes with wit and confidence of a world where female beauty is celebrated and monetized. Her heroine, an outsider tarnished by scandal, navigates both with skill and satire. Every page we wince and smirk. A self-aware, modern, female-centered novel out of Trinidad which breaks new ground."
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