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Anna Jacobs
Anna Jacobs has published 40 books under the pen names of Anna Jacobs, Shannah Jay, Sherry-Anne Jacobs, and Sophie Jaye. These days she mostly writes historical sagas and modern family relationships novels as anna Jacobs. In 2006 Anna won the Australian Romantic Book of the Year. In May 2007, two of her books were shortlisted for the Australian Romantic Book of the Year award!
Anna has always loved history - not the political stuff that she had to study at school and university, but social and economic history - how people lived, played, earned their daily bread. She has a wall of research books aimed at understanding the people of the past. Otherwise, how could she write about them?
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