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Alphabet Sisters in the Pink

My fourth novel The Alphabet Sisters is one of 12 titles to be published as a limited edition Pink Popular Penguin in Australia in late March, helping the McGrath Foundation raise funds…

Australia’s Favourite Novelist poll

I’m delighted to have finished in the Number 3 spot (behind Tim Winton at 2 and Kate Morton at 1) in Booktopia’s poll for Australia’s Favourite Novelist – thanks so…

The House of Memories shortlisted in RNA Awards

The House of Memories has been shortlisted for the 2013 Romantic Novelists’ Association (RNA) Awards in the UK, in the Contemporary Romantic Novel category. The winners will be announced in…

A Real-life House of Memories

To mark the publication of  The House of Memories in Australia, my publisher Penguin created a ‘pop-up’ house in Southern Cross railway station in Melbourne. Passersby were invited to write…

The Statues of Dublin

In the centre of O’Connell Street in Dublin there’s a statue of the man who used to own the vegetable shop in my childhood hometown in Australia. On North Earl…

“A modern-day Jane Austen”

“A modern-day Jane Austen” – some lovely words from Book Divas in this interview from the publication of Lola’s Secret:

http://www.bookdivas.com/interviews/2012/11/interview-monica-mcinerney-author-lolas-secret

“An orange-related mishap”

“A niece’s orange-related mishap and a bout with unthinkable sorrow planted seeds for Monica McInerney’s 10th novel.” By Linda Morris in The Sydney Morning Herald: http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/books/grief-for-lack-of-a-better-word-is-good-20121110-294az.html

The House of Memories Australian bestseller

My publisher Penguin Australia has just told me that The House of Memories is the top-selling Australian book for the third week in a row. Thanks very much to you…

Big thanks

I’d like to say a big, big thanks to all of you who came along to my talks about The House of Memories all around Australia during the past few…

Lola’s Secret – first American review

I was thrilled to receive this review from Booklist, the American Library Association magazine: ‘McInerney believes in the goodness of people… Lola, and the novel, cheerily salute the extraordinary in…