Saturday 15 March, 2025 at 2pm
Steps Theatre
Dundee Central Library
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This Saturday, sees one of the UK's most successful authors of feel good fiction, Jenny Colgan, join Anna Day, Head of Libraries and Cultural Services at Leisure & Culture Dundee, at Dundee Central Library to discuss Jenny's writing career and latest novel Close Knit.
Jenny Colgan is one of the most successful and prolific authors of feel-good fiction in the UK. Her numerous Sunday Times, New York Times and internationally bestselling books include almost fifty novels, novellas, short stories and children’s books. She has sold more than four million copies in the UK alone, and ten million copies worldwide. Her books have spent more than thirty weeks on the Sunday Times bestseller list and include a series of Doctor Who tie-in novels.
She has won various awards for her writing including the RNA Romantic Novel of the Year Award and the RNA Romantic Comedy Novel of the Year Award. Jenny is a long-time champion of romantic fiction, proudly speaking up in the media against the sidelining of genre fiction.
In Close Knit, Jenny Colgan returns to the remote Scottish Island of Carso where the pilot for the local airline is Morag who stopped flying long haul to return home in Summer Skies. Unlike Morag, Gertie has never had the courage to leave the island where she was born. It's the only place she knows, but she can’t do anything without everyone knowing. Especially as she lives in a tiny cottage with her mother and grandmother who are the women at the heart of the local Knitting Circle; a group of strong, capable women who work hard, gossip, knit - and support each other through thick and thin.
When the chance comes to make changes - a new job working at the local airport, a new flat, new friends and even a possible new romance - a world of possibilities opens up.
Jenny Colgan was born in Ayrshire and educated at Edinburgh University.
She spent several years in London and France before returning to Scotland where she divides her time between Edinburgh and Fife. She is married with three children.
Praise for Jenny Colgan
'An evocative, sweet treat' - Jojo Moyes
'Gorgeous, glorious, uplifting' Marian Keyes 'Irresistible' - Jill Mansell
'Just lovely' - Katie Fforde
'Naturally funny, warm-hearted' - Lisa Jewell
'A gobble-it-all-up-in-one-sitting kind of book' - Mike Gayle
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