Jenny Colgan


Jenny Colgan is a writer of romantic comedy fiction and science-fiction. She has written for the Doctor Who 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 Hopkin's Sweetshop of Dreams and the Romantic Novelists' Association award for Comedy Novel of the Year in 2018 for The Summer Seaside Kitchen.

Biography

Personal life

Jenny Colgan studied at the University of Edinburgh and worked for six years in the health service, moonlighting as a cartoonist and a stand-up comic.
She is married to Andrew, a marine engineer, and has three children, Wallace, Michael-Francis, and Delphie. She splits her time between France and London.
In 2000, she published her first novel, the romantic comedy Amanda's Wedding. In 2013, her novel Welcome to Rosie Hopkins' Sweetshop of Dreams won the Romantic Novel of the Year Award by the Romantic Novelists' Association. In 2018 she won an edition of Celebrity Mastermind with a score of 21 points.
In July 2012, her Doctor Who tie-in novel Dark Horizons was published under the name J. T. Colgan.

As Jenny Colgan

Single novels
  1. The Little Beach Street Bakery
  2. Summer at Little Beach Street Bakery
  3. Christmas at Little Beach Street Bakery

    At the Cupcake Café

  4. Meet Me at the Cupcake Café
  5. Christmas at the Cupcake Café

    Polly

  6. Polly and the Puffin
  7. The Stormy Day
  8. The New Friend
  9. The Happy Christmas

    Rosie Hopkins' Sweet Shop

  10. Welcome to Rosie Hopkins' Sweet Shop of Dreams
  11. Christmas at Rosie Hopkins' Sweet Shop
  12. The Christmas Surprise

    Scottish Bookshop

  13. The Bookshop on the Corner aka The Little Shop of Happy-Ever-After
  14. The Bookshop on the Shore
  15. 500 Miles from You

    Summer Seaside Kitchen

  16. A Very Distant Shore
  17. The Café by the Sea published in paperback as The Summer Seaside Kitchen
  18. The Endless Beach
  19. Christmas on the Island aka An Island Christmas
  20. Christmas at the Island Hotel

    As Jane Beaton

Maggie, a Teacher In Turmoil

  1. Class: Welcome to the Little School by the Sea
  2. Rules: Things are Changing at the Little School by the Sea
  3. Lessons

    As J. T. Colgan/Jenny T. Colgan