Michele Roberts.(News)

The People (London, England);  September 1, 1996 ;     66 words ......programme, we incorrectly stated that Michele Roberts had betrayed her best pal by seducing...accompanied our story made clear, it was Michele Roberts' son, Stephen Roberts, who had been...Michelle Williams. We apologise to Michele Roberts for the distress caused by our article...

Books: Fiction - The tale of Snow White and Rose Red's love triangle The...

The Independent on Sunday;  April 20, 2003 ;     613 words ......relationship between love and art. Vinny and Catherine, sisters and writers...of a powerful older painter, Robert. Vinny is the first to become Adam's lover...sisters. Out of this love triangle, Michele Roberts has created a powerful, sensual novel...good at describing women, and here Vinny ...

Books: How to lose the abbey habit The Books Interview: In fiction, as in...

The Independent - London;  January 9, 1999 ;     700+ words ...The first surprise is that Michele Roberts has swapped her house in Holloway...on her weight and swims every day. Michele Roberts is nearly 50, and she is glowing...good read with not a nun in sight. Michele Roberts without Catholicism would, one imagines...

Permeable borders, possible worlds: history and identity in the novels of...

Studies in the Literary Imagination;  September 22, 2003 ;     700+ words ......novel, A Piece of the Night, in 1978, Michele Roberts continually has returned in her fiction...location for theorizing the (im)possible. Michele Roberts's first three novels, A Piece of the...narratives which veer toward Kunstlerroman. Michele Roberts's novels implicitly propose the ...

40 UNDER Forty: Michele Roberts

The Billings Gazette;  January 11, 2004 ;     186 words ...Michele Roberts Operating room manager Beartooth Hospital and Health Center Age...Hiking Person most like to meet: Princess Di Hero: My grandmother In Michele Roberts' family, there are nine involved in nursing. Roberts is from Miles...

WILL THE VINNY OF OLD SHOW UP FOR BRONCOS?(Sports)(Column)

Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO);  January 15, 1999 ;     700+ words ......you're confident of at least one thing. Vinny quarterbacks for the other team. You see the numbers, and they don't scare you. Vinny has had numbers before. He has even made...believe in history, that, given the chance, Vinny will once again be Vinny. You know that...

MY WEEK: MICHeLE ROBERTS; Persephone's mole, I emerge blinking from the...

The Independent on Sunday;  April 6, 2003 ;     625 words ......radiant blue dusks, l'heure bleue, I loved London more than ever, all its living inhabitants and all its writer ghosts who haunt the courts and alleyways of the Strand. Michele Roberts' latest novel is `The Mistress', published by Little, Brown

Your Life: RELATIONSHIPS: My Vinny vanished without a trace; YOUNG MUM...

The Mirror (London, England);  May 3, 2005 ;     700+ words ......arms, Vicki Derrick smiled as her husband Vinny kissed her affectionately. Then she waved...around the street corner. She hasn't seen Vinny, who's now 29, since. And nobody - including...dressed. Louis always insisted on waving Vinny goodbye when he went to work, so I held...

Books: Redemption songs Michele Roberts acclaims a novelist who reinvents...

The Independent - London;  January 25, 2003 ;     567 words ......exile, culminates in a paean to love lost and found again. Tenderly, it gives that powerful, last word to Bettany's mother. Michele Roberts's `The Mistressclass' is published by Little, Brown in April Bethany Bettany Fred D'Aguiar Chatto & Windus pounds 15.99...

When needed, Vinny will resort to being Vinny

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel;  January 17, 1999 ;     500 words ......you're confident of at least one thing. Vinny Testaverde quarterbacks for the other team...the numbers, and they don't scare you. Vinny has had numbers before. He has even made...believe in history, that, given the chance, Vinny will once again be Vinny. You know that...

Books: Get your kicks in 1666 Michele Roberts relishes a romp across...

The Independent - London;  October 12, 2002 ;     617 words ......consoles himself with golden-hearted Bess in a tavern near St Paul's, whence he watches the spread of the Great Fire. Sparkling and erudite, this is a wonderful novel. Michele Roberts's new stories, `Playing Sardines', are published by Virago

'We gave men a hard time' Free love, abortion, masturbation ... there...

The Scotsman;  August 15, 2007 ;     700+ words ......anyone possessing reading glasses can attest. But that's no bad thing. On reaching middle age, the award- winning novelist Michele Roberts, now 58, discovered she was not only looking ahead to the future, but that distance also afforded a clear view of the past...

All the crying and the anger wasn't going to bring Vinny back - but I'm...

Evening Times;  October 16, 2004 ;     700+ words ......life. Here, she tells JONATHAN RENNIE how Vinny's organs helped five people to live THIS...went on to unravel. Her beloved husband Vinny, also just 39, died of a massive brain...might even lose the home she'd shared with Vinny. But she has weathered the blows that would...

Books: Love in a cold climate Mara and Dann: an adventure by Doris Lessing...

The Independent - London;  April 3, 1999 ;     638 words ......leap of faith required. I am not, I regret, a good enough reader for this brave millennial novel, which I am sure will find the enthusiastic audience which it deserves. Michele Roberts's new novel, `Fair Exchange', is published by Little, Brown

Books: Mother of all battles Michele Roberts salutes a famously nice...

The Independent - London;  May 4, 2002 ;     700+ words ......the unconscious, or in repression, but who does now know she must listen to herself as well as to her daughter. This is Carol Shields' most interesting novel to date. Michele Roberts' short stories, `Playing Sardines', are published by Virago