Win a copy of Professor Monique Roffey’s acclaimed new novel ‘Passiontide’

The latest novel from a Manchester Met contemporary writing professor has already been lauded with huge acclaim following its publication last month.

Professor Monique Roffey’s Passiontide — which has been included in both Glamour’s Best Books of June and i-D’s Books for 2024 — is set on a Caribbean Island and follows four women who spark a revolution after a shocking event that alters the lives of everyone in the community.

At the close of St Colibri’s carnival, a young female steel pan player is found dead beneath the cannonball tree. As the days pass, this discovery brings together Sharlene, a journalist who has a sense for finding out the real story, her activist friend Tara, Gigi, the founder of the Port Isabella Sex Workers Collective, and Daisy, the first lady of St Colibri, who experienced a disappearance in her family years ago.

Celebrated by The Guadian as “a passionate protest novel” in which “Roffey’s world-building power is evident on every page” Passiontide is the author’s much-anticipated follow-up to her Costa Book of the Year winner, The Mermaid of the Black Conch.

Professor Roffey is an award-winning Trinidadian-born British writer of eight novels, essays, a memoir and literary journalism and Professor of Contemporary Fiction at Manchester Met’s Manchester Writing School.

We’ve got three copies of the new book to give away, simply fill in the form below to be in with a chance of winning one.

T&Cs: Applicants must be 18+, no cash alternative available, decision is final, winner will be randomly picked by MCR Wire. Competition closing date is Fri 26 Jul, 00:01am