Michele Roberts

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  • Bibliography:
    18 Books
  • First Book:
    May 1988
  • Latest Book:
    November 2021
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Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice

Wooing Mr. Wickham (Nov-2011)

Book List in Order: 18 titles

  • The Book of Mrs. Noah

    A woman visiting Venice fantasizes that she is Noah's wife, accompanied by five story-telling Sybils, each representing a different aspect of women's experience down the centuries. From the author of A PIECE OF THE NIGHT, THE VISITATION and THE WILD ...

  • In the Red Kitchen

    Evoked in the voices of several women, four in particular, the tale of Flora Milk is one of dark Victorian hypocrisy and exploitation, and of questioning contemporary passion. The author won the 1992 W.H. Smith Literary Award....

  • Wild Girl

    In the parched soil of Provence, a fifth gospel has been discovered. It is Mary Magdalene's account of Christ's teaching and her relationship with him, and it unveils a new Christianity which embraces the female equally with the male. The author won ...

  • Daughters of the House

    A Booker Prize Finalist, Daughters of the House is Michèle Roberts' acclaimed novel of secrets and lies revealed in the aftermath of World War II. Thérèse and Léonie, French and English cousins of the same age, grow up together in Normandy. Intri...

  • During Mother's Absence

  • Flesh and Blood

  • Impossible Saints

    What does it take for a woman to be judged saintly? In this wily, wonderfully original novel, Michle Roberts tells the story of the fictional Saint Josephine: her life and death, her childhood and evolution from woman to nun to abbess, her unlikely...

  • The Looking Glass

    A lushly imagined, sensual novel about memory, desire, and the power of storytelling, from a Booker Prize nominee.Geneviève is an outsider, raised in an orphanage, now living an isolated existence as a maid to the widowed Madame Patin in a small Fre...

  • Visitation

    Helen is in conflict with her suburban upbringing, her independence, her creativity, and generations of silence surrounding notions of gender and sexual behavior. This story is a daring exploration of female sexuality....



  • Fair Exchange

    In the early 1800s in a small village in rural France, a peasant woman named Louise summons her priest. Fearing she is about to die, Louise begins her final confession to the bored cleric and reveals a lifelong secret involving a famous woman writer,...

  • The Mistressclass

    A painter's death sets into motion a story of desire--past and present--and its enduring repercussionsCatherine and Vinny are sisters and writers living in contemporary London. Catherine, a professor, publishes erotic novels under an assumed name, ke...

  • Reader, I Married Him

    After three abruptly ended marriages, Aurora is ready to lose her dreary black trouser-suit and find refuge in the Tuscan sun. It's her new eau de nil frock that she sheds, however, when she finds herself in the hotel room of the disconcertingly m...

  • Delusion

    "On the narrative level alone, this is a compelling combination of Victorian pastiche and psychological thriller, fully and vividly imagined and often very funny. Rarely has the creative interaction of past and present been so suggestively and ent...

  • Mud

    Chosen as a Fiction Book of the Year in the Daily Telegraph by Maggie O'FarrellIn this witty and subversive collection of stories, Michÿle Roberts explores women's desires, memories and loves as only she can. A jilted woman skirts the edges of tim...

  • Wooing Mr. Wickham

    Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice

    Taking their inspiration from the heroes and villains of Jane Austen's novels, the authors of these short stories have opened a new dialogue between readers and the enduringly beloved author that spans everything from imagining the secret impre...

  • Ignorance

    A stunning war-time novel set in France from Booker-shortlisted author Michele Roberts After every war there are stories that are locked away like bluebottles in drawers and kept silent. But sometimes the past can return: in the smell of carbolic soa...

  • The Walworth Beauty

    A sensuous, evocative novel exploring the lives of women in Victorian London 2011: When Madeleine loses her job as a lecturer, she decides to leave her riverside flat in cobbled Stew Lane, where history never feels far away, and move to Apricot Pl...

  • Cut Out

    'Impressive.' --The Sunday Times 'Brimming with delights, as full of life and colour as Matisse's cut outs.' -Susie Boyt Denis knows his mother kept things from him. His godmother, Clemence, knows the truth. In rich, sensuous p...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Michele Roberts has published 18 books.

Michele Roberts does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Cut Out, was published in November 2021.

The first book by Michele Roberts, The Book of Mrs. Noah, was published in May 1988.

No. Michele Roberts does not write books in series.
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