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Jane Thynne (born 5 April 1961) is a British novelist, journalist and broadcaster.
Biography
Jane Thynne was born in Venezuela on 5 April 1961. She attended Lady Eleanor Holles School in London. At St Anne's College, Oxford, she obtained a BA degree in English. She is married to fellow novelist Philip Kerr and they have three children.
Career
Jane Thynne has worked as a journalist for the BBC, The Sunday Times, The Daily Telegraph, and The Independent, for which she was the radio critic from October 2008 to November 2011. She has been a panellist on the BBC Radio 4 literary panel game The Write Stuff on many occasions.
Thynne was a member of the judging panel for the Oldie of the Year award in 2010, won by Joanna Lumley, and in 2011, won by Barry Humphries. She was also a judge for the Best Online Only Audio Drama award of the first BBC Audio Drama Awards in 2012, won by Tim Fountain for Rock.
Her first novel, Patrimony, was published in 1997. This was followed by The Shell House (1999), The Weighing of the Heart (2010) and Black Roses (2013).