Hello and welcome to my website.

My thanks to everyone who has been in touch to say they’ve enjoyed my short story collection All Together Now, now available in Australia and New Zealand and to be published in Ireland in September 2009. It includes several of my earliest short stories written for magazines nearly ten years ago, recent contributions to anthologies, my novella Odd One Out and two new stories. I’m delighted to say All Together Now has been shortlisted for the General Fiction Book of the Year at this year’s Australian Book Industry Awards.

My most recent novel Those Faraday Girls is now available in translation in Germany (as Die Töchter der Familie Faraday, published by Goldmann) and Holland (Familie Geheimen, published by Boekerij), with editions coming soon in Romania and Italy.

In news of my earlier novels, I’m happy to say the sequel to Upside Down Inside Out will be published in the USA on 7 July 2009, under the new title Greetings from Somewhere Else (it’s called Spin the Bottle in other parts of the world.)

I’m also proud to be part of a new collection of short stories published in Australia called Thanks for the Mammaries Penguin Australia, edited by Sarah Darmody. All proceeds go to the National Breast Cancer Foundation.

I’m currently working on my new novel, to be published in 2010. Thanks again to all of you who have been in touch via this website, it’s always great to get your emails.

Happy reading and warmest wishes,

Monica