Sun Dog by Monique Roffey Paperback Book

Description: Sun Dog by Monique Roffey A spellbinding novel which reveals the magic in the everyday from the Orange Prize shortlisted author of The White Woman on the Green Bicycle. FORMAT Paperback CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description Author of The Mermaid of Black Conch, Rathbone Folio Prize 2021 longlisted, Winner of the Costa Best Novel Award 2020 & Winner of the Costa Book of the Year 2020 August Chalmin feels the weather like no one else. A large awkward recluse, with bright orange hair and sun-shy eyes, August hides himself away behind the counter of a Shepherds Bush deli. One winters day two things change his life forever: his mothers ex-lover Cosmo shambles back into his life, and he discovers a rash on his arm which looks like frost. A rash which is frost. As Cosmo raises questions about Augusts identity, August finds himself changing with the seasons, in a journey that takes him deep into his past and to the very centre of his soul... Author Biography Monique Roffey is an award winning Trinidadian-born British writer. She has written four novels and a memoir. Three of her novels are set in the Caribbean and form a loose trilogy which engages with political and environmental issues in the region. The most recent of these Caribbean novels is House of Ashes, published in July 2014. Set on the fictional Caribbean island of Sans Amen, it tells the story of three characters, a gunman, a hostage and a boy soldier caught up in a botched coup détat. Archipelago, published in 2012, is both an epic sea voyage and an examination of climate change from the point of view of a man from the southern Caribbean. It won the OCM BOCAS Prize for Caribbean Literature in 2013. The judges commended it for its exploration of the greater Caribbean space in which is embedded a real-life story of trauma and loss and ultimately redemption that is both contemporary and compelling. The White Woman on the Green Bicycle, a story that maps the creolisation of a colonial couple during the early Independence years in Trinidad, received widespread critical acclaim and was shortlisted for the Orange Prize 2010 and the Encore prize 2011. Her erotic memoir, With the Kisses of his Mouth was published in 2011 to much praise and controversy and was reviewed in the Guardian as a subversive work that transcends the authors personal story: it stands alone in the chasm that has opened between feminist literature and the belles du jour brigade. Roffey has a PhD in Creative Writing and teaches regularly for The Arvon Foundation and the Writers Lab in Skyros. She is a member of the action group Carib-Lit and teaches and runs workshops regularly in Trinidad too. She divides her time equally between London and Port of Spain. Details ISBN1398514101 Author Monique Roffey ISBN-10 1398514101 ISBN-13 9781398514102 Format Paperback Pages 400 Publisher Simon & Schuster Ltd Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom NZ Release Date 2022-01-20 Year 2022 Publication Date 2022-01-20 UK Release Date 2022-01-20 AU Release Date 2022-04-12 Edition Description Reissue DEWEY 823.92 Audience General Imprint Scribner UK We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:160749903;

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