On my radar: Monique Roffey's cultural highlights

The Costa-winning author on enjoying Sade with a glass of wine, Line of Duty and why the Caribbean's female writers need to be heard

Monique Roffey is an award-winning writer born in Trinidad in 1965 whose novels include The White Woman on a Green Bicycle and House of Ashes, which were shortlisted, respectively, for the Orange and the Costa prizes. She is also a senior lecturer at Manchester Writing School. Her sixth novel, The Mermaid of Black Conch, won the Costa book of the year and is shortlisted for the 2021 Rathbones Folio prize, announced on 24 March.