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Archipelago will be released on June 20, 2013 in Mass Market Paperback
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Archipelago will be released on July 05, 2012 in Hardcover, eBook
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With the Kisses of His Mouth will be released on March 01, 2012 in Mass Market Paperback
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The White Woman on the Green Bicycle will be released on April 20, 2010 in Trade Paperback
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Monique Roffey's Books
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ArchipelagoThe magical new novel from the Orange Prize shortlisted author of The White Woman on the Green Bicycle will take you on a journey like no other...Read More -
With the Kisses of His MouthA passionate, provocative and pioneering memoir from an Orange Prize shortlisted authorRead More
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The White Woman on the Green BicycleAn unforgettable love story brimming with politics and passion, hope and despair, set over fifty years in TrinidadRead More
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Monique Roffey Revealed
Q. What is your motto or maxim?
A. Live each day as though it were your first.
Q. How would you describe perfect happiness?
A. A cold beer on the beach, watching a cricket match on the sand.
Q. Who is your favorite fictional villain?
A. Cathy, the whore in East of Eden
Q. With whom in history do you most identify?
A. Jean Rhys
Q. If you could acquire any talent, what would it be?
A. Tap dancing
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Trinidad and Tobago's Newsday, May 2, 2013
...last weekend walked off with thousands of dollars worth of prizes at the third NGC Bocas Lit Fest. Monique Roffey and Barbara Jenkins were the winners of the third OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature, for the best book of 2012, and the inaugural...
Nudge, May 1, 2013
...Archipelago 7.99Read MoreShortlisted for the Orange Prize for her second novel, White Woman on a Green Bicycle, Monique Roffey went on to gain a degree of notoriety for her explicit memoir, With the Kisses of His Mouth, an account of the painful...
Caribbean News Agency, April 29, 2013
...PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, Apr 29, CMC – Trinidad-born United Kingdom-based writer, Monique Roffey, whose work titled “Archipelago” based on the 2008 floods here, has won the US$10,000 2013 One Caribbean Media (OCM) Bocas Prize for Caribbean...
Trinidad Guardian, April 28, 2013
...of France 2–5 pm • AV Room DISCUSSION The Books that Made Me, with Roger Robinson, Monique Roffey, James Christopher Aboud, and Lisa Allen-Agostini, chaired by Susheila Nasta. To mark the launch of a special Trinidad issue of the...
Trinidad Guardian, April 27, 2013
...Rupert Roopnaraine, who won the non-fiction category with The Sky’s Wild Noise: Selected Essays; and T&T’s Monique Roffey, adjudged the best in the fiction category with Archipelago. In addition to having your work deemed the best Caribbean...
The Voice St Lucia, April 6, 2013
...Fault Lines” means that the book is now among the three collections nominated for the overall prize. Trinidadian Monique Roffey’s “Archipelago” dominated the fiction category, while Guyanese Rupert Roopnaraine’s “The Sky’s Wild Noise:...
Kaieteur News, March 20, 2013
...the One Caribbean Media (OCM) Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature. These two titles, along with a third from Monique Roffey, will compete for the overall OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature. Roopnaraine’s book is a wide-ranging collection of...
Trinidad and Tobago's Newsday, May 2, 2013
...last weekend walked off with thousands of dollars worth of prizes at the third NGC Bocas Lit Fest. Monique Roffey and Barbara Jenkins were the winners of the third OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature, for the best book of 2012, and the inaugural...
Nudge, May 1, 2013
...Archipelago 7.99Read MoreShortlisted for the Orange Prize for her second novel, White Woman on a Green Bicycle, Monique Roffey went on to gain a degree of notoriety for her explicit memoir, With the Kisses of His Mouth, an account of the painful...
Trinidad Guardian, April 30, 2013
...Sic Transit Wagon in the T&T Guardian online.) Saturday night also brought the news of my mentor Monique Roffey’s win in the OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature. Her third novel, Archipelago, took the award over two strong competitors, St...
Caribbean News Agency, April 29, 2013
...PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, Apr 29, CMC – Trinidad-born United Kingdom-based writer, Monique Roffey, whose work titled “Archipelago” based on the 2008 floods here, has won the US$10,000 2013 One Caribbean Media (OCM) Bocas Prize for Caribbean...
Trinidad Express, April 29, 2013
...of the flooding of her brother’s home in Maraval in 2008 that inspired Trinidad-born, United Kindom-based writer Monique Roffey to pen her fiction novel Archipelago. That work won her the 2013 One Caribbean Media (OCM) Bocas Prize for Caribbean...
Trinidad Guardian, April 28, 2013
...Eckhart Tolle’s The Power of Now. And some of the 2013 OCM Bocas Prize shortlisted books, like Monique Roffey’s Archipelago. If I could, I’d eat only chocolate. Chocolate cake, pudding, mousse, cookies, drinking chocolate, Nutella and...
Trinidad Guardian, April 28, 2013
...of France 2–5 pm • AV Room DISCUSSION The Books that Made Me, with Roger Robinson, Monique Roffey, James Christopher Aboud, and Lisa Allen-Agostini, chaired by Susheila Nasta. To mark the launch of a special Trinidad issue of the...
