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'''Janey King''' (née ''Morris''; born 1947) is [[United Kingdom|British]] [[journalist]] and [[writer]] of [[romance novel]]s; she writes under the pseudonym of '''Rosie Thomas'''.<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 was educated at [[Millfield]] and later studied at [[St Hilda's College, Oxford]]. She worked as a journalist and in publishing before writing full time.<ref name="jrank" /> 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>
'''Janey King''', née ''Morris'' (b. 1947 in [[Denbigh]], [[Wales]]) is [[United Kingdom|British]] [[journalist]] and [[writer]] of [[romance novel]]s; she writes under the pseudonym of '''Rosie Thomas'''.<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 was educated at [[Millfield]] and later studied at [[St Hilda's College, Oxford]]. She worked as a journalist and in publishing before writing full time.<ref name="jrank" /> 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>


She has published numerous novels since 1982,with several of them becoming top ten bestsellers; her books deal with the common themes of love and loss.<ref name=HCBiog>{{cite web|last=|first=|title=Rosie Thomas|url=http://www.harpercollins.co.uk/Authors/6539/rosie-thomas|work=[[Harper Collins]] website|date=|accessdate=2010-02-09}}</ref> She won the [[Romantic Novel of the Year Award]] with her novel ''Sunrise'' in 1985 and in 2007 with her novel ''Iris and Ruby''.<ref name="RoNAAwards" />
She has published numerous novels since 1982,with several of them becoming top ten bestsellers; her books deal with the common themes of love and loss.<ref name=HCBiog>{{cite web|last=|first=|title=Rosie Thomas|url=http://www.harpercollins.co.uk/Authors/6539/rosie-thomas|work=[[Harper Collins]] website|date=|accessdate=2010-02-09}}</ref> She won the [[Romantic Novel of the Year Award]] with her novel ''Sunrise'' in 1985 and in 2007 with her novel ''Iris and Ruby''.<ref name="RoNAAwards" />
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Janey Morris King
BornJaney Morris
1947 (age 77–78)
Denbigh, Wales, UK
Pen nameRosie Thomas
OccupationNovelist
LanguageEnglish
NationalityBritish
Educationjournalist, novelist
Period1982–present
GenreRomance

Janey King, née Morris (b. 1947 in Denbigh, Wales) is British journalist and writer of romance novels; she writes under the pseudonym of Rosie Thomas.[1] She was educated at Millfield and later studied at St Hilda's College, Oxford. She worked as a journalist and in publishing before writing full time.[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]

She has published numerous novels since 1982,with several of them becoming top ten bestsellers; her books deal with the common themes of love and loss.[3] She won the Romantic Novel of the Year Award with her novel Sunrise in 1985 and in 2007 with her novel Iris and Ruby.[2]

She is a keen traveller and mountaineer,[4] and has competed in the Peking to Paris car rally.[4] She lives in London.

Bibliography

She has written the following works:[5]

Single novels

  • Celebration (1982) (known as Love's Choice in the United States)
  • 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

  1. ^ a b Rosie Thomas at JRank, 2012-07-10
  2. ^ a b Awards by the Romantic Novelists' Association, 2012-07-10
  3. ^ "Rosie Thomas". Harper Collins website. Retrieved 2010-02-09.
  4. ^ a b Wilkinson, Carl (2008-04-06). "Me and my travels: Rosie Thomas, author". The Guardian. Retrieved 2010-02-09.
  5. ^ Rosie Thomas at FantasticFiction, 2012-07-10

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