The Shape I’m In
“A dressmaker friend says I have a ‘writing’ shape and a ‘promoting’ shape. I lock myself away in my attic for months while I write my books, usually over the…
Read MoreWriter’s Block with Monica McInerney
SOPHIE GRENHAM talks to author MONICA McINERNEY about how she’s a SUPERSTITIOUS WRITER, growing up in the CLARE VALLEY and writing TWELVE NOVELS … Monica McInerney is an internationally acclaimed Australian author who fell in love with Ireland…
Read MoreI was an ordinary kid in an Australian country town, but through books I travelled the world
Ahead of Australian reading hour on Thursday, bestselling writer Monica McInerney remembers growing up in the country, and the lives she lived through books. My love affair with books began when I…
Read MoreFive Places That Changed My Life
CLARE VALLEY, SOUTH AUSTRALIA I grew up here, leaving aged 17 to work in Adelaide (as wardrobe girl on Here’s Humphrey.) From there, I moved to London, Sydney, Melbourne, Ireland. In…
Read MoreMy Trip Of A Lifetime
One of the great things about being a writer is it is such a portable occupation. I spend many hours alone in my attic in Dublin writing my novels, but…
Read MoreFamily Secrets, Christmas Letters, and Hello From The Gillespies
Years ago, a young Monica McInerney was working as a publicist on a book tour for Roald Dahl, a year before he died. She was in a hall filled with…
Read MoreA Conversation with Monica McInerney
(Questions by Ellen Edwards, my editor at Penguin Random House in New York.) Hello from the Gillespies begins with a Christmas letter gone awry—how did this irresistible premise inspire the…
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