BIODATA

OCCUPATION: Novelist BORN: 1972 FROM: Prestwick G REATEST H ITS: Welcome To Rosie Hopkins’ Sweetshop Of Dreams ( 2012) won the Romantic Novel of the Year Award.

RANDOM FACT: While Colgan has “absolutely no ambitions to force my own personality onto the Doctor”, she adds: “I’m always excited when I get something sneaky in there that expands the character a bit.”