Jenny Colgan (born 14 September 1972,

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) is a Scottish writer of romantic comedy fiction and science-fiction. She has written for the ''

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'' line of stories. She writes under her own name and using the pseudonyms Jane Beaton and J. T. Colgan. She won the Romantic Novel of the Year award in 2013 for ''Welcome to Rosie Hopkins' Sweetshop of Dreams'' and the Romantic Novelists' Association award for Comedy Novel of the Year in 2018 for ''The Summer Seaside Kitchen''.

Biography

Jenny Colgan studied at the

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and worked for six years in the health service, moonlighting as a

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and a

stand-up comic Stand-up comedy is a comedic performance to a live audience in which the performer addresses the audience directly from the stage. The performer is known as a comedian, a comic or a stand-up. Stand-up comedy consists of one-liners, stories, ...

. She is married to Andrew Beaton, a marine engineer, and has three children. She splits her time between France and

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. In 2000, she published her first novel, the romantic comedy ''Amanda's Wedding''. In 2004 one of her stories was included in ''Scottish Girls About Town''. In 2013, her novel ''Welcome to Rosie Hopkins' Sweetshop of Dreams'' won the

Romantic Novel of the Year Award The Romantic Novel of the Year Award is an award for romance novels since 1960, presented by Romantic Novelists' Association, and since 2003, the novellas, also won the Love Story of the Year (now RoNA Rose Award). In 2018, awards were given to ...

by the

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. In 2018 she won an edition of Celebrity Mastermind with a score of 21 points. In July 2012, her ''

'' tie-in novel ''Dark Horizons'' was published under the name J. T. Colgan.

Bibliography

As Jenny Colgan

Single novels

* ''Amanda's Wedding'' (2000) * ''Looking for Andrew McCarthy'' (2001) * ''Talking to Addison'' (2001) aka ''My Very '90s Romance'' * ''Working Wonders'' (2003) aka ''Arthur Project'' * ''Do You Remember the First Time?'' (2004) aka ''The Boy I Loved Before'' * ''Sixteen Again'' (2004) * ''Where Have All the Boys Gone?'' (2005) * ''West End Girls'' (2006) * ''Operation Sunshine'' (2007) * ''Diamonds Are a Girls Best Friend'' (2008) * ''The Good, the Bad and the Dumped'' (2010) * ''The Loveliest Chocolate Shop in Paris'' (2013) * ''Working Wonders'' (2013) * ''The Christmas Bookshop'' (2021)

Little Beach Street Bakery

# ''The Little Beach Street Bakery'' (2014) # ''Summer at Little Beach Street Bakery'' (2015) # ''Christmas at Little Beach Street Bakery'' (2016) # ''Sunrise by the Sea'' (2021)

At the Cupcake Café

# ''Meet Me at the Cupcake Café'' (2011) # ''Christmas at the Cupcake Café'' (2012)

Polly

# ''Polly and the Puffin'' (2015) # ''The Stormy Day'' (2016) # ''The New Friend'' (2017) # ''The Happy Christmas'' (2017)

Rosie Hopkins' Sweet Shop

# ''Welcome to Rosie Hopkins' Sweet Shop of Dreams'' (2012) # ''Christmas at Rosie Hopkins' Sweet Shop'' (2013) # ''The Christmas Surprise'' (2014)

Scottish Bookshop

# ''The Bookshop on the Corner'' (2016) aka ''The Little Shop of Happy-Ever-After'' # ''The Bookshop on the Shore'' (2019) # ''500 Miles from You'' (2020)

Summer Seaside Kitchen

# ''A Very Distant Shore'' (prequel, 2017) # ''The Café by the Sea'' (2016) published in paperback as ''The Summer Seaside Kitchen'' (2017) # ''The Endless Beach'' (2018) # ''Christmas on the Island'' (2018) aka ''An Island Christmas'' # ''Christmas at the Island Hotel'' (2020) # ''An Island Wedding'' (2022)

As Jane Beaton

Maggie, a Teacher in Turmoil

# ''Class: Welcome to the Little School by the Sea'' (2008) # ''Rules: Things are Changing at the Little School by the Sea'' (2010) # ''Lessons'' (3 part serialization)

As J. T. Colgan/Jenny T. Colgan

* ''Resistance Is Futile'' (2015) * ''Spandex and the City'' (2017)

''Doctor Who''

* ''Dark Horizons'' (2012) * ''Into the Nowhere'' (2014) * ''In the Blood'' (2016) * ''

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'' (2018) * '' The Triple Knife and Other Doctor Who Stories'' (2018) * '' Star Tales'' (2019)

References

External links

Jenny Colgan official site

Simon & Schuster biography

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Colgan, Jenny 1972 births Living people People from Prestwick Alumni of the University of Edinburgh People educated at Queen Margaret Academy Scottish women novelists British romantic fiction writers British chick lit writers RoNA Award winners Women romantic fiction writers Writers of Doctor Who novels