Jacqui Rose

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Jacqui Rose is a British crime fiction novelist, and as J. P. Rose, a children's author.

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Life

Rose was born in Manchester, [1] of Jamaican, Nigerian and Anglo-Irish ancestry. [2] She was adopted as a child, grew up in a Yorkshire village, and trained as an actor, before running prison writing workshops, and then crime fiction. [1] [2]

Writing

Rose has written 14 gangland crime thrillers. [2]

She has collaborated with Martina Cole to co-author Loyalty, which was published in 2023. [3]

Writing as J. P. Rose, her first children's book, The Haunting of Tyrese Walker was published by Andersen Press in 2023, and was shortlisted for the Branford Boase Award. [4] [5]

In 2024, Andersen Press published Birdie, her second book for children. [6] The semi-autobiographical story is set in 1952 in Yorkshire and depicts the life of a "brown baby" who, after being abandoned by her mother, grows up in an orphanage until, at age nine, she is taken in by her great aunt and great uncle. At her new village school and among her neighbors she experiences racism for the first time. The German translation was selected in October 2025 as children's book of the month ('Luchs of the month') by a jury associated with the national weekly paper Die Zeit . [7]

In 2024, Rose was a judge for the Jhalak Prize. [1]

Bibliography

As Jacqui Rose

with Martina Cole

As J P Rose

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Our Judges". Jhalak Prize. Retrieved 11 December 2024.
  2. 1 2 3 "J P Rose | 'Birdie is the child that I wasn't ever brave enough to be. She was always there, such a loud voice in my head'". The Bookseller. Retrieved 11 December 2024.
  3. ↑ "Loyalty by Martina Cole, Jacqui Rose". www.shakespeareandcompany.com. Retrieved 11 December 2024.
  4. ↑ "Shortlist 2023 – The Branford Boase Award and The Henrietta Branford Writing Competition". branfordboaseaward.org.uk. Retrieved 11 December 2024.
  5. ↑ Anderson, Porter (27 April 2023). "The Branford Boase Award Names Its 2023 Shortlist". Publishing Perspectives. Retrieved 11 December 2024.
  6. ↑ "Birdie by J P Rose". Little Toller Books. Retrieved 11 December 2024.
  7. ↑ Hörnlein, Katrin (5 October 2025). "Keine Ponyhof-Lektüre". Die Zeit (in German). Retrieved 19 October 2025.
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