Jan Shinebourne

Jan Lowe Shinebourne is a writer who was born in Guyana and emigrated to London, England.

In Timepiece (1986) Sandra Yansen must leave behind the close ties of family and village when she goes away to take up a job as a reporter in Georgetown.

Her novel, The Last English Plantation (2001), is set within a labyrinth of political chaos in British Guiana in the 1950s. In the novel June Lehall has to confront her mixed Indian-Chinese background in a situation of heightened racial tensions, the loss of her former friends when she wins a scholarship to the local high school, the upheaval of the industrial struggle on the sugar estate where she lives, and the arrival of British troops as Guyana explodes into political turmoil.