Rosie Thomas (1) (1947–)
Author of The Kashmir Shawl
For other authors named Rosie Thomas, see the disambiguation page.
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Reader's Digest Condensed Books: The Afghan • Sun at Midnight • Echo Park • Messenger of Truth (2007) 9 copies
Reader's Digest Select Editions: Crisis Four • White • Void Moon • The Soldier's Return (2000) 3 copies
Of Love and Life: Can You Keep a Secret? / If My Father Loved Me / Blessed Are the Cheesemakers (2003) — Author — 2 copies
Time-Life Book Digest: A Woman of Our Times | The Cat and The Curmudgeon | Rabbit At Rest | Under Seige (1990) 2 copies
Annie v plné parádě; Iris a Ruby; Vzpomínáš si? (3-in-1) — Contributor — 1 copy
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- Canonical name
- Thomas, Rosie
- Legal name
- Morris King, Janey
- Birthdate
- 1947
- Gender
- female
- Nationality
- UK
- Birthplace
- Denbigh, Wales, UK
- Places of residence
- London, England, UK
- Education
- University of Oxford (St Hilda's College)
Millfield School, Somerset, England, UK - Occupations
- novelist
journalist - Short biography
- Janey King, née Morris was born on 1947 in Denbigh, Wales, and also grew up in North Wales. She read English at Oxford, and after a spell in journalism and publishing began writing fiction after the birth of her first child. Published since 1982 as Rosie Thomas, she has written fourteen best-selling novels, deal with the common themes of love and loss. She is one of only a few authors to have won twice the Romantic Novel of the Year Award by the Romantic Novelists' Association, in 1985 with Sunrise, and in 2007 with Iris and Ruby.
Janey is an adventurer and once she was established as a writer and her children were grown, she discovered a love of travelling and mountaineering. She has climbed in the Alps and the Himalayas, competed in the Peking to Paris car rally, spent time on a tiny Bulgarian research station in Antarctica and travelled the silk road through Asia. She currently lives in London.
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