The Culture Interview – Monique Roffey
7 mn read Monique Roffey is an award-winning Trinidadian-born British writer of novels, essays, a memoir and literary journalism.
7 mn read Monique Roffey is an award-winning Trinidadian-born British writer of novels, essays, a memoir and literary journalism.
2 mn read Monique Roffey is an award-winning Trinidadian-born writer. Her erotic novel The Tryst, was published in the summer of 2017. Her novel House of Ashes, 2014, was shortlisted for the COSTA Fiction Award, 2015, as well as the OCM BOCAS Award 2015. Her erotic memoir, With the Kisses of his Mouth, caused controversy and critical acclaim in […]
11 mn read Suzanne Portnoy wrote The Butcher, the Baker and the Candlestick-maker about her outrageous sexual explorations in her 40s & Monique Joffrey’s White Woman on a Green Bicycle was short-listed for the Orange Prize…
8 mn read January 2017, and I’m fifty-one years old and by all accounts in the middle of a full-blown, multi-dimensional mid-life crisis.
12 mn read Hetaera was a type, or archetype Wolff herself identified with. It is the word for ‘companion’ in Greek and refers to a kind of educated courtesan found in ancient Greek society…