Janey King (born 1947 in Denbigh, Wales) is a British journalist and romance novelist, writing under the pseudonym of Rosie Thomas. She is the author of 20 novels and ranks among the top 100 authors whose books are borrowed from United Kingdom libraries.[1] She is a two-time winner of the Romantic Novel of the Year award.
Janey Morris King | |
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| Born | Janey Morris 1947 (age 76–77) Denbigh, Wales, United Kingdom |
| Pen name | Rosie Thomas |
| Occupation | Novelist |
| Language | English |
| Nationality | British |
| Period | 1982–present |
| Genre | Romance |
| Notable awards | Romantic Novel of the Year (1985, 2007) |
| Website | |
| rosiethomasauthor | |
Biography
editBorn Janey Morris, she grew up in a north Wales village.[1] Her mother died when she was ten years old.[citation needed] She was educated at Millfield and later studied at St Hilda's College, Oxford. She worked as a journalist and in publishing before undertaking full-time writing.[citation needed] She drew her pseudonym from her mother's name, Rose, and her sister's married name, Thomas.[1]
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.[2]
Awards
editShe is one of only a few authors to have twice won the Romantic Novel of the Year Award by the Romantic Novelists' Association. She won in 1985 for her third novel, Sunrise, and in 2007 for Iris and Ruby.[3] In 2012 the Romantic Novelists' Association awarded Best Epic Romance of the Year to her 2011 novel, The Kashmir Shawl.[4]
Personal
editThomas married her husband, a literary agent, after graduating university. They had two children.[1] After their divorce in the mid-1990s, she turned to traveling and became an avid mountaineer.[1] On her 60th birthday, she climbed the Eiger in Switzerland.[citation needed] She has also competed in the Peking to Paris car rally.[5] She lives in London.[1]
Bibliography
editShe has written the following works:[6]
Novels
edit- 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)
- The Illusionists (2014)
- Daughter of the House (2015)
Non-fiction
edit- Border Crossing: On the Road from Peking to Paris (1998)
References
edit- ^ a b c d e f Barton, Laura (7 May 2007). "'I'm just trying to write about women's lives'". The Guardian. Retrieved 30 December 2013.
- ^ "Rosie Thomas". HarperCollins website. Retrieved 9 February 2010.
- ^ Awards by the Romantic Novelists' Association, 10 July 2012
- ^ Haigh, Jess (13 September 2012). "For Books' Sake Talks To: Rosie Thomas". Retrieved 30 December 2013.
- ^ Wilkinson, Carl (6 April 2008). "Me and my travels: Rosie Thomas, author". The Guardian. Retrieved 9 February 2010.
- ^ Rosie Thomas at FantasticFiction, 10 July 2012