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Monique Roffey, FRSL, is an award winning British-Trinidadian writer. Her most recent novel, Passiontide, (Harvill, 2024), a crime thriller and protest novel, was a finalist for the prestigious US Caricon Award.

The Mermaid of Black Conch (Peepal Tree Press/Vintage) won the Costa Book of the Year Award, 2020 and was shortlisted for the Goldsmiths Prize, 2020, the Rathbones/Folio Award 2021, and the Republic of Consciousness Award. Her other novels have been shortlisted for The Orange Prize, Costa Novel Award, Encore and Orion Awards. In 2013, Archipelago won the OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature. She is Professor of Contemporary Fiction at Manchester Metropolitan University.

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The Mermaid of Black Conch
3.85 avg rating — 20,662 ratings — published 2020 — 33 editions
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3.48 avg rating — 3,480 ratings — published 2009 — 26 editions
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Archipelago
3.97 avg rating — 1,133 ratings — published 2012 — 18 editions
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Sun Dog
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The Tryst
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House of Ashes
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With the Kisses of His Mouth
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“Later I saw that change came as change always comes, from a chain of events with a long history, too long to see from back to front, till it come.”
― Monique Roffey, The Mermaid of Black Conch
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“Travelling, he'd always thought, was where he'd meet his other self. Somewhere in a foreign place, he would bump into the bit of himself which was lost.”
― Monique Roffey, Sun Dog
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“The sea was the giant woman of the planet, fluid and contrary.”
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