Education
University of New York
- Photos
- Works
- Photos
- Works
Nicola Monaghan
Edit Profilenovelist author of The Killing Jar
Career
Her second novel and novella came out in 2008. She has also had stories published in anthologies and magazines, including Sunday Night and Monday Morning (Five Leaves), Cool Brittania (Wachenbach) and online magazine Pulp.Net
Monaghan has written screenplays for Council Child Productions, including "Starcross" and "Margie"s Garden."
New Zealand Listener
The Written Nerd
East London and West Essex Guardian
The Observer
Mslexia
The Independent
This is Monaghan’s second novel, and was published by Chatto and Windus in March 2008. lieutenant is based in the City of London in the late 1990s and is about Frankie Cavanagh, a LIFFE futures trader, working and playing hard and trying to keep up with the boys.
She starts an affair with her boss, Tom, and the two go down a destructive route together.
The book is dark, with gothic overtones, and some very subtle references to Mary Shelley"s Frankenstein. As with Monaghan"s previous work, the imagery is rich and very sensual, and the narrative fast paced.
The story takes place as the financial world begins to be taken over by electronic trading on screens and traders struggle to cope with this transition,
Monaghan"s third book is a short novella published by Five Leaves Publications, also in 2008. Again written in a pacey, first person voice, it tells the story of Jack, a card trader.
He"s the ultimate alpha male with high powered customers all over the world.
One of Jack"s richest clients wants to own a very rare trading card, but it belongs to a Japanese businessman who isn"t prepared to sell. Jack travels to Japan to "acquire" the card.
Achievements
-
Born
Education
Awards
-
Betty Trask Award; Waverton Good Read Award
The Betty Trask Prize and Awards are for first novels written by authors under the age of 35, who reside in a current or former Commonwealth nation.; The Waverton Good Read Award was founded in 2003 by villagers in Waverton, Cheshire, England, and is based on Le Prix de la Cadière d'Azur, a literary prize awarded by a Provençal village.The Betty Trask Prize and Awards are for first novels written by authors under the age of 35, who reside in a current or former Commonwealth nation.; The Waverton Good Read Award was founded in 2003 by villagers in Waverton, Cheshire, England, and is based on Le Prix de la Cadière d'Azur, a literary prize awarded by a Provençal village.