Monique Rooney

Sep 25, 2024 | euppublishing.com | Monique Rooney |Proposal Guidelines |Benjamin Dalton |Ben Tyrer

Adventures and solitude of a young vagabond (neither withdrawn nor talkative), told by those who had crossed her path, that winter in the South of France. But can one render silence, or capture freedom? (Agnès Varda, “Publicité”, quoted in Flitterman-Lewis, 1996, pp.

Aug 21, 2024 | theconversation.com | Jo Case |Aidan Coleman |Alexander Cothren |Alexander Howard |Ali Mohammad Alizadeh |Amanda Tink | +44 more

Like so many avid readers around the world, I was fascinated by the recent New York Times list of the Best Books of the 21st century, as voted by 503 authors, critics and book lovers. But like many Australians, I was disappointed to see no Australian books on the list. Even those authors who’ve made a splash in the US literary scene this century – Helen Garner, Gerald Murnane, Maria Tumarkin – didn’t get a guernsey. That’s where we come in.

Aug 1, 2024 | theconversation.com | Monique Rooney

Fiona McFarlane is known for her gripping narratives of psychological complexity and haunted Australian spaces. Her debut novel, The Night Guest (2013), was set in a small coastal town where Ruth, a retired widow with dementia, begins to sense a tiger in her home, as Frida, a supposed government caregiver, gradually takes over Ruth’s life. McFarlane’s next novel, The Sun Walks Down (2022), revisited the archetypal Australian story of a child lost in the wilderness.

Nov 20, 2023 | econotimes.com | Monique Rooney

The cover of The Conversion is an image of two yellow-tailed black cockatoos ascending against a pale sky, their horizontal outstretched wings crossed by the vertical lines that run from their beaks to their tail feathers. Black cockatoos turn up on page three of the novel. Nick Whitelaw and Zoe North are walking the grounds of a deconsecrated church. Nick is keen to buy the church; his wife, Zoe, is “less upbeat”. She is not convinced a church can be converted into a home.

Nov 19, 2023 | hashtag.net.au | Monique Rooney

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