TWO NEW BOOKS COMING IN 2026 & 2027
Penguin Random House Australia has acquired a new work of fiction and a new work of collected non-fiction from Monica McInerney, bestselling author of Those Faraday Girls and The Godmothers. Publisher Ali Watts acquired…
Read MoreHappy 2nd Birthday, Girl on a Roof!
Happy 2nd Birthday, Girl on the Roof! 🎊📚📚❤️. Two years ago, I had the honour and delight of unveiling this beautiful sculpture by artist Paul Leditschke on the Riesling Trail…
Read MoreNew UK & Irish covers for backlist
Hello gorgeous new covers for SPIN THE BOTTLE, FAMILY BAGGAGE and AT HOME WITH THE TEMPLETONS! These re-issued editions of three of my earlier novels are out this week in…
Read MoreNew editions in Irish Top 10
Hello again Upside Down Inside Out & All Together Now! Delighted to see these new UK & Irish editions of two of my earlier books (first published in 2002 &…
Read MoreNew UK & Irish edition of Those Faraday Girls
Hello again, Those Faraday Girls! A real treat this week to receive my author copies of the new UK/Irish edition of my 6th novel, THOSE FARADAY GIRLS, first published in…
Read MoreThe Godmothers in Australia’s Better Reading Top 100
Australian friends, thank you! 😊🇦🇺📚🥰 So thrilled to wake to the news this morning that my novel THE GODMOTHERS was voted into Better Reading’s Top 100 Books list for 2023,…
Read MoreThank you to visitors to Girl on a Roof
“The Girl on the Roof” ❤️🏠📚 My warmest thanks to everyone who has taken the time to visit my sculpture in the Clare Valley of South Australia, opposite my childhood…
Read MoreA Well-Travelled Bag
Have bag, will travel! Last year, Bronwyn Chalke of the Hobart Bookshop in Tasmania not only gave me (and my Marcie Gill books) a warm welcome, she also gave me…
Read MoreThe Godmothers…In Italy
A Happy Publication Day message to myself today! The Italian edition of The Godmothers, LE MADRINE, is available now, published by Fazi Editore. So lovely to see Dean Proudfoot’s special…
Read MoreA Marvellous Teacher
Fifty years ago, my grade 4 teacher at St Joseph’s in Clare, South Australia, Sister Margaret Mary Murphy, asked each of us to write a short book over the school…
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