Michele Roberts

Michèle Brigitte Roberts (born 20 May 1949) is a British writer, novelist and poet. She is the daughter of a French Catholic teacher mother (Monique Caulle) and English Protestant father (Reginald Roberts), and has dual UK–France nationality.

Books in order of publication:

Essays

• Food, Sex & God: on Inspiration and Writing, 1988, Virago Press

Novels

• A Piece of the Night, 1978, Women’s Press
• The Visitation, 1978, Women’s Press
• The Wild Girl (also known as The Secret Gospel of Mary Magdalene), 1984, Methuen
• The Book of Mrs Noah, 1987, Methuen
• In the Red Kitchen, 1990, Methuen
• Psyche and the Hurricane, 1991, Methuen
• Daughters of the House, 1992, Virago and Morrow (USA)
• During Mother’s Absence, 1992, Virago
• Flesh & Blood, 1994, Virago
• Impossible Saints, 1998, Ecco Press
• Fair Exchange, 1999, Little, Brown
• The Looking Glass, 2000, Little, Brown
• The Mistressclass, 2002, Little, Brown
• Reader, I Married Him, 2006, Little, Brown
• Ignorance, 2012, Bloomsbury Publishing
• The Walworth Beauty, 2017, Bloomsbury

Poetry

• Touch Papers: Three Women Poets (with Michelene Wandor and Judith Kazantzis), 1982, Allison and Busby
• The Mirror of the Mother, 1986, Methuen
• Psyche and the Hurricane , 1991, Methuen
• All the Selves I Was, 1995, Virago

Short stories

• Your Shoes, 1991
• During Mother’s Absence, 1993, Virago
• Playing Sardines, 2001, Virago
• Mud: Stories of Sex and Love, 2010, Virago

Memoir

• Paper Houses: A Memoir of the 70s and Beyond, 2007, Virago.
• Negative Capability: A Diary of Surviving, 2020, Sandstone Press.