Jenny Colgan

Jenny Colgan studied at the University of Edinburgh and worked for six years in the health service. She is married to Andrew Beaton, a marine engineer, and has three children. She splits her time between France and London. In 2000, she published her first novel, the romantic comedy Amanda's Wedding. In 2004, one of her stories was included in Scottish Girls About Town. 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.

Amanda's Wedding (2000) Looking for Andrew McCarthy (2001) Talking to Addison (2001) aka My Very '90s Romance Working Wonders (2003) aka Arthur Project Do You Remember the First Time? (2004) aka The Boy I Loved Before Sixteen Again (2004) Where Have All the Boys Gone? (2005) West End Girls (2006) Operation Sunshine (2007) Diamonds Are a Girls Best Friend (2008) The Good, the Bad and the Dumped (2010) The Loveliest Chocolate Shop in Paris (2013) Working Wonders (2013) The Secret Christmas Library (2025)

A Very Distant Shore (prequel, 2017) The Café by the Sea (2016) published in paperback as The Summer Seaside Kitchen (2017) The Endless Beach (2018) Christmas on the Island (2018) aka An Island Christmas Christmas at the Island Hotel (2020) An Island Wedding (2022)

Class: Welcome to the Little School by the Sea (2008) Rules: Things are Changing at the Little School by the Sea (2010) Lessons (3 part serialization)

Dark Horizons (2012) Into the Nowhere (2014) In the Blood (2016) The Christmas Invasion (2018) The Triple Knife and Other Doctor Who Stories (2018) Star Tales (2019)