Jenny Colgan: Character, Comedy & The Joy of Reading

Jenny Colgan is a Scottish author who has written more than sixty books, sold fifteen million of them in more than thirty five countries. Her series include The Little Beach Street Bakery, The Christmas Bookshop and the School by The Sea series. She has also written six books in the Doctor Who universe under the name J.T. Colgan.

Colgan won Romantic Novel of the Year in 2013 for Welcome to Rosie Hopkins’ Sweetshop of Dreams, the Romantic Novelists’ Association Novel of the Year in 2018 for The Summer Seaside Kitchen and in 2015 she was inducted into the Love Stories Hall of Fame.

Jenny’s four choices are each in their own way staggering examples of excellence in writing as well as exploration and development of character. Her book choice tells the story of friendship, faith and finding yourself whose author has even won an Oscar for his writing, the film she chose is another Oscar-winner this time written by one of Britain’s greatest playwrights, the podcast is sensitive yet forensic exercise in journalism and her TV pick is one of the most extraordinary pieces of writing for the medium.

Jenny also speaks about her love of reading to her kids at bedtime, how the country doesn’t need campaigns to tell us we should read and instead how we need to remind people of the joy to be had from reading.

Jenny’s latest book, The Secret Christmas Library, is available now from all good bookstores.

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