Costa Award winner Monique Roffey is one of the most blazingly original novelists writing in English today. Her fiction - rooted in the Caribbean but reaching to the universal - explores mythology, desire, displacement and the deep human need to belong.
 
In this event, Monique joins chair Julia Wakelam to discuss her remarkable body of work, from the award-winning The Mermaid of Black Conch to her most recent novel. Expect a conversation as vivid and passionate as Roffey's prose.
 
Format: Interview & Q&A
Themes: Fiction, Adults, Young People, Headliner, Literary, Book Club
Access: Hearing Loop
 
Monique Roffey Books: Sun Dog, August Frost, The White Woman on the Green Bicycle, A House For Miss Pauline, Archipelago, House of Ashes, The Tryst, The Mermaid of Black Conch, Passiontide
Monique Roffey, FRSL, is an award-winning Trinidadian born British writer. DRAGONFLY, (Cape) will be published in 2027. The Mermaid of Black Conch, won the Costa Book of the Year Award, 2020. Archipelago won the OCM Bocas Award for Caribbean Literature, 2013. Her work has been translated into many languages and adapted for screen. She is a member of the Hard Art collective and co-founder of Hey! Festivals. She is Professor of Contemporary Fiction at Manchester Metropolitan University.
 
Julia Wakelam
Julia Wakelam is one of the founders of Bury St Edmunds Literature Festival and the Chair of Trustees.