Jane Rogers

(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.

Genres: General Fiction

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)

Collections

   Northern Stories (1996) (with Mark Illis)
   Ellipsis 2 (2006) (with Polly Clark and Zoe Lambert)
   Fire Ready (2023)

Anthologies edited

New Writing 12 (2003) (with Diran Adebayo and Blake Morrison)

Non fiction

Good Fiction Guide (2001)

Series contributed to

Comma Singles
Hitting Trees with Sticks (2012)

Awards

	Booker Prize Best Novel nominee (2011) : The Testament of Jessie Lamb
	Arthur C. Clarke Award Best Book winner (2012) : The Testament of Jessie Lamb

Jane Rogers recommends

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."

Wolf Country (2018)
Tünde Farrand
"A chilling and politically astute dystopia – sci-fi in the tradition of Wyndham."

A Message From the Other Side (2017)
Moira Forsyth
"Suspenseful and intriguing."

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