Jacqui Rose

{{Short description|British novelist}}

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

Rose was born in Manchester,{{Cite web |title=Our Judges |url=https://www.jhalakprize.com/our-judges |access-date=2024-12-11 |website=Jhalak Prize |language=en}} of Jamaican, Nigerian and Anglo-Irish ancestry. 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.

Rose has written 14 gangland crime thrillers.{{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}}

She has collaborated with Martina Cole to co-author Loyalty, which was published in 2023.{{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}}

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

In 2024, Andersen Press published Birdie, her second book for children.{{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}} Also in 2024, Rose was a judge for the Jhalak Prize.