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'''Janey King''', née ''Morris'' (born 1947 in [[Denbigh]], [[Wales]]) is [[United Kingdom|British]] formed [[journalist]], wellknow as |
'''Janey King''', née ''Morris'' (born 1947 in [[Denbigh]], [[Wales]]) is [[United Kingdom|British]] formed [[journalist]], wellknow as an awarded [[writer]] of [[romance novel]]s under the pseudonym of '''Rosie Thomas''' since 1982.<ref name="jrank">{{Citation|title=Rosie Thomas at JRank|url=http://www.jrank.org/literature/pages/19501/Thomas-Rosie.html|date=2012-07-10}}</ref> She is one of only a few authors to have won twice the [[Romantic Novel of the Year Award]] by the [[Romantic Novelists' Association]].<ref name="RoNAAwards">{{Citation|title=Awards by the Romantic Novelists' Association|url=http://www.romanticnovelistsassociation.org/index.php/awards|date=2012-07-10}}</ref> |
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Revision as of 23:29, 6 November 2012
Janey Morris King | |
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| Born | Janey Morris 1947 (age 77–78) Denbigh, Wales, UK |
| Pen name | Rosie Thomas |
| Occupation | Novelist |
| Language | English |
| Nationality | British |
| Education | journalist, novelist |
| Period | 1982-present |
| Genre | Romance |
Janey King, née Morris (born 1947 in Denbigh, Wales) is British formed journalist, wellknow as an awarded writer of romance novels under the pseudonym of Rosie Thomas since 1982.[1] She is one of only a few authors to have won twice the Romantic Novel of the Year Award by the Romantic Novelists' Association.[2]
Biography
Borned Janey Morris on 1947 in Denbigh, Wales, United Kingdom. She studied at St Hilda's College, Oxford. She worked as a journalist and in publishing before writing full time.[1]
Published since 1982, her numerous novels, several of them top ten bestsellers, deal with the common themes of love and loss.[3] She won the Romantic Novel of the Year Award by her novel Sunrise in 1985 and in 2007 by her novel Iris and Ruby.[2]
She is a keen traveller and mountaineer.[4] She has also competed in the Peking to Paris car rally.[4] She currently living in London.
Bibliography
Single novels
- Celebration (1982) aka Love's Choice (US title)
- Follies (1983)
- Sunrise (1984)
- The White Dove (1986)
- Strangers (1987)
- Bad Girls, Good Women (1988)
- A Woman of Our Times (1990)
- All My Sins Remembered (1991)
- Other People's Marriages (1993)
- A Simple Life (1995)
- Every Woman Knows a Secret (1996)
- Moon Island (1998)
- White (2000)
- The Potter's House (2001)
- If My Father Loved Me (2003)
- Sun at Midnight (2004)
- Iris and Ruby (2006)
- Constance (2007)
- Lovers & Newcomers (2010)
- The Kashmir Shawl (2011)
Non-fiction
- Border Crossing: On the Road from Peking to Paris (1998)
References and sources
- ^ a b Rosie Thomas at JRank, 2012-07-10
- ^ a b Awards by the Romantic Novelists' Association, 2012-07-10
- ^ "Rosie Thomas". Harper Collins website. Retrieved 2010-02-09.
- ^ a b Wilkinson, Carl (2008-04-06). "Me and my travels: Rosie Thomas, author". The Guardian. Retrieved 2010-02-09.
- ^ Rosie Thomas at FantasticFiction, 2012-07-10
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