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.
