{{Short description|British novelist}} {{Use dmy dates|date= December 2024}} {{Use British English|date= December 2024}}
'''Jacqui Rose''' is a British crime fiction novelist, and as '''J. P. Rose''', a children's author.
==Life== Rose was born in Manchester,<ref name=":1">{{Cite web |title=Our Judges |url=https://www.jhalakprize.com/our-judges |access-date=2024-12-11 |website=Jhalak Prize |language=en}}</ref> of Jamaican, Nigerian and Anglo-Irish ancestry.<ref name=":0" /> 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.<ref name=":1" /><ref name=":0" />
==Writing== Rose has written 14 gangland crime thrillers.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=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' |url=https://www.thebookseller.com/author-interviews/j-p-rose-explores-identity-and-belonging-in-her-first-middle-grade-novel |access-date=2024-12-11 |website=The Bookseller |language=En}}</ref>
She has collaborated with Martina Cole to co-author ''Loyalty'', which was published in 2023.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Loyalty by Martina Cole, Jacqui Rose |url=https://www.shakespeareandcompany.com/books/loyalty-3 |access-date=2024-12-11 |website=www.shakespeareandcompany.com |language=en-GB}}</ref>
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.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Shortlist 2023 – The Branford Boase Award and The Henrietta Branford Writing Competition |url=https://branfordboaseaward.org.uk/shortlist-2023/ |access-date=2024-12-11 |website=branfordboaseaward.org.uk}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Anderson |first=Porter |date=2023-04-27 |title=The Branford Boase Award Names Its 2023 Shortlist |url=https://publishingperspectives.com/2023/04/the-branford-boase-award-names-its-2023-shortlist/ |access-date=2024-12-11 |website=Publishing Perspectives |language=en-US}}</ref>
In 2024, Andersen Press published ''Birdie'', her second book for children.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Birdie by J P Rose |url=https://www.littletoller.co.uk/shop/books/books-for-christmas/childrens-fiction/birdie-by-j-p-rose/ |access-date=2024-12-11 |website=Little Toller Books |language=en-GB}}</ref> 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''.<ref>{{cite news |last=Hörnlein |first=Katrin |date=2025-10-05 |website=Die Zeit |title=Keine Ponyhof-Lektüre |url=https://www.zeit.de/2025/42/birdie-j-p-rose-rassismus-kinderbuch-literatur |access-date=2025-10-19 |language=de}}</ref> ''Birdie'' was shortlisted for the 2026 Carnegie Medal for Writing.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2026-03-16 |title=Carnegie Medal 2026 shortlists released |url=https://www.booksandpublishing.com.au/articles/2026/03/16/325929/carnegie-medal-2026-shortlists-released/ |access-date=2026-03-17 |publisher=Books+Publishing}}</ref>
In 2024, Rose was a judge for the Jhalak Prize.<ref name=":1" />
== Bibliography ==
=== As Jacqui Rose === *''Taken'' (2012) *''Trapped'' (2013) *''Dishonour'' (2013) *''Betrayed'' (2014) *''Avenged'' (2014) *''Disobey'' (2015) *''Toxic'' (2018) *''Fatal'' (2019) *''Sinner'' (2019) *''Poison'' (2020) *''Rival'' (2020) *''The Streets'' (2022) *''The Women'' (2023)
=== with Martina Cole === *''Loyalty'' (2023) *''Guilty'' (2024)
=== As J P Rose === *''The Haunting of Tyrese Walker'', 2023, Andersen Press *''Birdie'', 2024, Andersen Press
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