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Michèle Roberts


(Michèle Brigitte Roberts)
UK flag (b.1949)

Half-English and half-French, Michèle Roberts was born in 1949. DAUGHTERS OF THE HOUSE (1992) was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and won the WH Smith Literary Award.


Genres: Literary Fiction
 
Novels
   A Piece of the Night (1978)
   The Visitation (1983)
   The Wild Girl (1984)
   Book of Mrs. Noah (1987)
   In the Red Kitchen (1990)
   Daughters of the House (1992)
   Flesh and Blood (1994)
   Impossible Saints (1997)
   Fair Exchange (1999)
   The Looking Glass (2000)
   The Mistressclass (2003)
   Reader, I Married Him (2005)
   The Secret Gospel of Mary Magdalene (2007)
   Delusion (2008)
   Ignorance (2012)
   The Walworth Beauty (2017)
   Cut Out (2021)
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Collections
   The Mirror of the Mother (poems) (1986)
   Psyche and the Hurricane (poems) (1991)
   During Mother's Absence (1993)
   All the Selves I Was (poems) (1995)
   God's House (1996)
   Playing Sardines (2001)
   Mud: Stories of Sex and Love (2010)
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Anthologies edited
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Non fiction show
 
Books containing stories by Michèle Roberts
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Stories of Hope and Wonder (2020)
In Support of the UK's Healthcare Workers
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The Best British Short Stories 2011 (2011)
(Best British Short Stories)
edited by
Nicholas Royle
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Magic (2002)
New Stories
edited by
Sarah Brown and Gil McNeil

More books 


Award nominations
1992 Booker Prize (shortlist) : Daughters of the House


Michèle Roberts recommends
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The White Flower (2024)
Charlotte Beeston
"Sensitively and tenderly written, The White Flower performs the mother-daughter bond as a loving tug-of-war between present and past, forgetting and remembering, loss and joyful reparation."
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The Element -inth in Greek (2012)
Alison Fell
"A compelling chase through patterns of desire."

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