Janey Jones and Princess Poppy
Janey Jones has worked hard to achieve her success. Born in Edinburgh, where she still lives, she read English at Edinburgh University and then became a teacher. With her husband she set up the Jelly Club, which has become a successful chain of children’s activity centres in Scotland. Read more
The latest sensational success story is that of Jax Miller, who has just sold two thrillers to HarperFiction UK.
The announcement that Gillian Flynn had been declared Specsavers International author of the Year last week was only the latest accolade awarded to her.
'A projection back of modern sensibilities'
‘It's difficult, perhaps impossible, to write a character well in the past who is not a projection back of modern sensibilities. My defence would be that the 16th century was the time when rational, sceptical inquiry was beginning. This was the age of the humanists: we're leaving medieval thought patterns behind. Read more