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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Lifestyle
Lucie McInerney

“The world belongs to people who turn up”: Doctor Who author Jenny Colgan on the secret to writing a novel

In this clip from The Independent’s Like This Love This podcast, Jenny Colgan reflects on her writing philosophy. Colgan has written more than sixty books, selling fifteen million in more than thirty five countries, as well as six stories in the Doctor Who universe under the name J.T. Colgan.

Jenny also speaks about her love of reading to her kids at bedtime, how the country doesn’t need campaigns to tell us we should read and instead how we need to remind people of the joy to be had from reading.

Watch the full episode of Like This Love This with Jenny Colgan on Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

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