A young couple buy a house in the country to escape the close quarters and violence of the city, only to discover the home they have bought and the small town they’ve moved to have their own disturbing secrets. 

ISBN: 978-1-998408-04-7

During a disastrous dinner party on the night before Sept. 11, 2001, two couples' lives are about to be unravelled. This tightly written domestic thriller is a haunting exploration of marriages and what tears them apart. Everything can change in an instant.

ISBN:  9781989496398

What if death row was the only world that existed for you now and everything else was a story? As the hours drain away, the chaplain must decide if the prisoner's story is an off-the-cuff confession or a last bid for salvation.

Optioned for film

ISBN:  9781928088431 

From fall to spring, the inhabitants of Edgewood Drive in the small town of Parkville prove that the simplest lives can be intricate and complicated. The interwoven, layered narrative of Michelle Berry’s iInterference moves between Senior Ladies Leisure League hockey, the unsure and awkward life of pre-teens and teens, suspected pedophilia, disfigurement, and cancer. In Interference, there is always someone watching, biding their time. 

 ISBN: 9781770411982 

Too big for regular medical equipment, Sylvia Swamp is on her way to a veterinary hospital for an emergency procedure. Sylvia's mother, Ruth Swamp, is obsessed with the Dr. Spock baby care book. Sister Sadie Swamp wants to be a magician's assistant. Who in this misfit family will crack first?

Longlisted: Relit Awards, 2011

Enfield & Wizenty 1st Place Novel Award, 2010

ISBN:  9781926531045 

No matter how intimate you are with your closest friend or lover, no matter how well you think you know your sister, brother, mother or father, no matter how long you have lived next to your neighbour, you will never truly know them. A collection of stories.

Winner: Mary Scorer Award

Shortlisted: Relit Awards 2011

Short Fiction

ISBN:  9780888013682 

On the quiet cul-de-sac of Blind Crescent, people go about the petty details of their daily lives and watch each other—very closely—do the same. Meanwhile, a sniper picks off drivers on a nearby highway, and a strange person inhabits the one vacant house on the crescent. A wickedly sharp novel.

ISBN:  9780888014412 

A Hollywood starlet drops out of sight after her lover is found dead floating in her pool.  Ten years later a tabloid reporter chances upon the starlet on a busy street. Is this his ticket to the journalistic big time? Cool and sparkling, with evocations of Sunset Boulevard, Blur draws us into the warped culture of fame, obsession and narcissism.

Published in the U.K.

ISBN:  9780888014375 

Michelle Berry’'s brilliant first novel is as touching as it is mirthful. Siblings Hilary, Thomas, and Billy have been thrown together after a long estrangement to plan their mother’s funeral. Witty and insightful, What We All Want shows just how beautiful and tragic family can be.

Published in the U.K.

Torgi Talking Book Award, 2002

ISBN:   9780888014337 

At the heart of Michelle Berry's second collection are characters full of longing, trapped by circumstance and unable to reach out or connect with one another. Whether it’'s Margaret in the basement and her neighbours above, or two couples working out their family melodramas over dinner, there is always the presence of others but rarely a connection between them. By twists and turns, Berry subverts what we know to be normal and arrives at something, though strange, more real than we like to admit. 

Short Fiction

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SBN:  9780888014290 

Malls and Velcro, television and art galleries, restaurants and bars, drugs and alcohol are the backdrops and props of modern life in the city, but even the disenchanted and confused benefit from the ever-changing constellations and confrontations with other people and other dreams. 

"Velcro and Penguins" Writes of Passage Short Fiction Award, 1995

Short Fiction

ISBN:  9780888012128