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Jane Rogers

Jane Rogers is an award-winning novelist, short story writer and radio dramatist. She is author of nine novels, including The Testament of Jessie Lamb, Man Booker-longlisted and winner of the Arthur C Clarke Award 2012. Other works include Mr Wroe's Virgins (dramatised for the Bafta-nominated BBC drama series), Her Living Image and Promised Lands . She has written original drama for Radio 4 and adapted numerous novels for the Classic Serial slot.
Her latest novel, Conrad and Eleanor, was published by Atlantic in June 2016.

May 2021

  • Jane Rogers

    Jane Rogers on writing Mr Wroe’s Virgins: ‘I was wildly ambitious, and had a chip on my shoulder’

    Looking to take on the very male literary world of the 1980s, Rogers turned to areas in which women could find meaning outside motherhood: work, religion, love

December 2016

  • Bleak black humour … Robert Louis Stevenson on his horse Jack in Samoa.

    Why Robert Louis Stevenson’s South Sea Tales go against the tides

    Stevenson was famous for adventures such as Treasure Island, but his South Sea Tales reveal a savage political and moral engagement

August 2016

  • Taking the long view ... an elderly couple sit looking at the sea off Newquay, Cornwall.

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