The Real-Life Railway Children
‘They were not railway children to begin with,’ starts Edith Nesbit’s classic The Railway Children. Not in our case – we seven McInerneys were always railway children, our father the…
Read MoreTeenage Angst
‘I’m on canteen duty next week.’ My Mum said it so casually, but the words struck fear into my heart. I was 14 years old, at high school in rural…
Read MoreAlphabet 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…
Read MoreAustralia’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…
Read MoreThe 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…
Read MoreA 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…
Read MoreThe 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…
Read More“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
Read More“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
Read MoreThe 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…
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