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Jane Rogers


UK flag (b.1952)

Jane Rogers has written seven novels including MR WROE'S VIRGINS, PROMISED LANDS, which won the Writers' Guild Best Fiction Award 1996, and THE VOYAGE HOME (2004). She also writes for TV and radio, and teaches on the Writing MA at Sheffield Hallam University. She lives near Manchester.
 

Awards: Clarke (2012), SoA (1985)  see all

Genres: General Fiction
 
New and upcoming books
October 2024

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Fire Ready
 
Novels
   Separate Tracks (1982)
   Her Living Image (1984)
   The Ice Is Singing (1987)
   Mr Wroe's Virgins (1991)
   Promised Lands (1995)
   Island (1999)
   The Voyage Home (2004)
   The Testament of Jessie Lamb (2011)
   Conrad and Eleanor (2016)
   Body Tourists (2019)
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Collections
   Northern Stories (1996) (with Mark Illis)
   Ellipsis 2 (2006) (with Polly Clark and Zoe Lambert)
   Fire Ready (2024)
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Anthologies edited
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Series contributed to
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Non fiction show
 
Books containing stories by Jane Rogers
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Stories of Hope and Wonder (2020)
In Support of the UK's Healthcare Workers
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2001: An Odyssey in Words (2018)
Honouring the Centenary of Sir Arthur C. Clarke's Birth
edited by
Tom Hunter and Ian Whates
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Bio-Punk (2012)
Stories from the Far Side of Research
(Science-Into-Fiction)
edited by
Ra Page

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Awards
2012 Arthur C. Clarke Award : The Testament of Jessie Lamb
1985 Somerset Maugham Award : Her Living Image

Award nominations
2011 Booker Prize (longlist) : The Testament of Jessie Lamb
2009 BBC National Short Story Prize (nominee) : Hitting Trees with Sticks


Jane Rogers recommends
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The Ones We Keep (2022)
Bobbie Jean Huff
"Bobbie Jean Huff leads the reader sure-footedly through three decades in the life of a family torn apart by a tragic accident, to a moving and uplifting ending."
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Wolf Country (2018)
Tünde Farrand
"A chilling and politically astute dystopia – sci-fi in the tradition of Wyndham."
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A Message From the Other Side (2017)
Moira Forsyth
"Suspenseful and intriguing."

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