Jane Rogers.com: The official site. Author of 'Mr Wroe's Virgins', 'Her Living Image', 'Separate Tracks', 'Island', 'Promised Lands, 'The Voyage Home', The Ice is Singing, The Testament of Jessie Lamb

Welcome to the website for Jane Rogers, novelist and scriptwriter

Jane Rogers has published eight novels, written original television and radio drama, and adapted work (her own and others') for radio and TV. Her novels include Mr Wroe's Virgins, Island, and The Voyage Home. She also writes short stories and was shortlisted in the BBC National Short Story Competition 2009. Writing awards include the Somerset Maugham Award, Writers' Guild Best Fiction Book, BAFTA nomination best drama serial, Guardian Fiction Prize runner up and Arts Council Award. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.

Work as an editor includes anthologies of new writing, and a reference guide to fiction. She has taught writing to a wide range of students, and is Professor of Writing on the MA course at Sheffield Hallam University, Course Leader in writing for the Open College of the Arts, and a mentor for Gold Dust.

Jane lives near Manchester and is currently working on a collection of stories.

NEWS: THE TESTAMENT OF JESSIE LAMB is on the longlist of 13 for the 2011 ManBooker prize, see http://www.themanbookerprize.com/perspective/articles/1516

THE TESTAMENT OF JESSIE LAMB has been shortlisted for the Arthur C Clarke Award, see

http://www.sfx.co.uk/2012/03/26/arthur-c-clarke-award-2012-shortlist-announced/

Photograph by Jerry Bauer