Jan Carew was born in Dunfermline in the Kingdom of Fife. She has a deep love of Scotland, both the highlands where she spent childhood holidays with her relatives, and Edinburgh where she read English at University. Both settings appear in her novel "Flowers of the Forest" which is set in the time of Bonnie Prince Charlie's 1745 rebellion.  

Jan has an M.A. in English from Edinburgh University and is a trained teacher. She also holds an Advanced Certificate in Speech and Drama from Central School of Speech and Drama, London. A year at the Sorbonne turned her into a lifelong Francophile which explains her recent book on the Montmartre artist, Poulbot.

She has had a long and varied teaching career, including extensive experiences as a tutor in Creative Writing at University level. Jan Carew is a member of the ‘Writers on Tour’ scheme, organized by the Welsh Academy; she is available for workshops and talks for both children and adults. She is also available as a Creative Writing consultant, both for tuition and appraisal of work at all levels. For more details contact Jan through Sterling Press telephone 0044 (0) 2920214004 or by e mail

Widely published as a children’s author, Jan is the author of twenty published books, both fiction and non-fiction. Click here for a list of  children's books by Jan She hopes to publish future historical novels with a Scottish background. Her home is in South Wales where her husband is a lecturer at Cardiff University. They have one daughter who lives near London. Her novel “Flowers in the Forest”, is published by Pegasus Elliot Mackenzie Publishers Ltd, :ISBN 1-9034902-7. Jan has just completed a new novel, “All Our Tomorrows”, which tells the story of women fighting their own battle on the Home Front in Scotland during the Second World War.

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