Nicola Monaghan
Nicola Monaghan is an English novelist and author of The Killing Jar, Starfishing and The Okinawa Dragon. She grew up in Nottingham, England, and gave up a career in finance to pursue an MA in creative writing at Nottingham Trent University.
Writing career
Monaghan was listed in The Independent's New Year 2006 list of rising talent and won a Betty Trask Award, the Author's Club Best First Novel Prize and the Waverton Good Read Award for her debut. Her second novel Starfishing and novella The Okinawa Dragon 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[citation needed]
Monaghan has written screenplays for Council Child Productions, including "Starcross"[1][2] and "Margie's Garden."[3]
The Killing Jar
The Killing Jar was Monaghan's first award-winning novel and was inspired by the lives she witnessed on the council estates where she grew up.
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- The Observer
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Starfishing
Monaghan's second novel was published by
The Okinawa Dragon
Monaghan's third book is a 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 is 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, The Okinawa Dragon, but it belongs to a Japanese businessman who is not prepared to sell. Jack travels to Japan to "acquire" the card.[citation needed]
Bibliography
- The Killing Jar (2007)
- Starfishing (2010)
- The Okinawa Dragon (2010)
- The Night Lingers and Other Stories (2015)
- The Troll: Book 1 (2015)
- The Troll: Book 2 (2015)
- The Troll: Book 3 (2015)
- Dead Flowers (2019)
- Wish You Were Here (2023)
References
- ^ "Starcross". British Films Directory. British Council. Retrieved 12 September 2015.
- ^ "Starcross: Ash Morris and Nicola Monaghan". Leftlion. Retrieved 12 September 2015.
- ^ "Margie's Garden - Crew". Margie's Garden. Retrieved 22 December 2015.