Julia Jones (writer)
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{{Short description|British writer, publisher and advocate}}
{{About|the book publisher, writer and advocate|other persons named Julia Jones|Julia Jones (disambiguation)}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Julia Frances Jones BEM
| image = Julia Jones (writer).jpg
| caption = Julia Jones in 2009
| birth_date = {{birth year and age|1954}}
| birth_place = Woodbridge, Suffolk, England
| occupation = Editor, publisher, writer
| yearsactive = 1986–present
| spouse = Chris Thorogood (divorced)
Francis Wheen (m. 2019)
| website = {{URL|golden-duck.co.uk/julia-jones}}
}}
Julia Jones, formerly also known as Julia Thorogood,[http://www.debbiesidea.com/info/author/1705/ Julia Jones page] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170317144723/http://www.debbiesidea.com/info/author/1705/ |date=17 March 2017 }} on debbiesidea.com website, viewed 8 July 2011 is an English writer, editor, book publisher and patient advocate.
Early life
Julia Jones was born in Woodbridge, Suffolk in 1954.[http://golden-duck.co.uk/julia-jones/ biography page] on Julia Jones' personal website, golden-duck.co.uk, viewed 8 July 2011 When she was three years old, her father George Jones bought the wooden sailing ketch Peter Duck, a yacht originally commissioned and owned by children's novelist Arthur Ransome and named for a character in one of his novels.[https://web.archive.org/web/20111014060243/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/outdoors/outdoor-activities/8609374/Setting-sail-on-Arthur-Ransomes-boat.html Setting sail on Arthur Ransome's boat] on The Daily Telegraph website, viewed 13 October 2012 This nautical connection with Ransome, along with numerous pony books, helped to shape a lifelong enthusiasm for books.
Writer and publisher
Jones opened a bookshop in Ingatestone, Essex, which she then developed into a small-scale local publishing business, reissuing a Second World War autobiography by crime writer Margery Allingham. Jones's interest in the Allingham family grew; she researched Margery Allingham's life and wrote a biography published in 1991. Jones has also studied the fiction writing of Margery Allingham's father, Herbert Allingham.
In 2006, while working on a PhD on Herbert Allingham, Jones decided to become a writer of adventure stories like the Swallows and Amazons series of Arthur Ransome she had read as a child. The Salt-Stained Book, the first part of a planned sailing adventure trilogy, was released in June 2011.[http://golden-duck.co.uk/the-salt-stained-book/ The Salt-stained Book] page on publisher's website, viewed 8 July 2011 Jones hoped the trilogy would inspire a new generation of children to mess about in boats.
Dementia-care advocacy
In November 2014, Jones and co-founder Nicci Gerrard set up an advocacy group, John's Campaign, to promote extended visiting rights for family carers of patients with dementia in hospitals in the United Kingdom.{{cite news|last=McVeigh | first=Tracy|title=Observer-backed John's Campaign wins support from NHS|url=https://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/mar/13/johns-campaign-dementia--nhs-approval|accessdate=11 June 2016|work=The Observer|date=13 March 2016}} Jones was awarded a British Empire Medal (BEM) in the 2023 King's Birthday honours "For Services to People with Dementia".{{London Gazette |issue=64082 |date= 17 June 2023|page=B32 |supp=y }}
Personal life
Jones has five children.[https://web.archive.org/web/20111014060243/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/outdoors/outdoor-activities/8609374/Setting-sail-on-Arthur-Ransomes-boat.html Setting sail on Arthur Ransome's boat] She was previously married to Chris Thorogood; in 2019 she married Francis Wheen, a writer, journalist and broadcaster who was deputy editor of Private Eye.Nicholas Wroe [https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2009/aug/29/francis-wheen-life-in-writing "A life in writing"], The Guardian, 29 August 2009
Bibliography
- Uncommon Courage: The yachtsmen volunteers of World War Two {{ISBN|978-1472987105}} 1 January 2021 (shortlisted for the 2022 Maritime Foundation's Mountbatten Award for Best Book){{cite web |title=Maritime Media Awards 2022 shortlist announced |url=https://www.maritimefoundation.uk/news/maritime-media-awards-2022-shortlist-announced/ |publisher=Maritime Foundation |access-date=17 August 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240514070915/https://www.maritimefoundation.uk/news/maritime-media-awards-2022-shortlist-announced/ |archive-date=14 May 2024 |date=26 April 2023 |url-status=live}}
- (edited/published) The Cruise of Naromis: August in the Baltic 1939 by G. A. Jones {{ISBN|978-1899262335}} 5 January 2017
- Margery Allingham & Julia Jones Beloved Old Age and What To Do About It: Margery Allingham's 'The Relay' handed on to Julia Jones {{ISBN|978-1899262298}}, 30 June 2016
- Fifty Years in the Fiction Factory: The working life of Herbert Allingham {{ISBN|978-1899262076}} 19 September 2012
- Strong Winds series:
- The Salt-Stained Book (Strong Winds vol. 1) {{ISBN|978-1899262045}} 16 June 2011
- A Ravelled Flag (Strong Winds vol. 2) {{ISBN|978-1899262052}} 1 November 2011
- Ghosting Home (Strong Winds vol. 3) {{ISBN|978-1899262069}} 2 July 2012
- The Lion of Sole Bay (Strong Winds vol. 4) {{ISBN|978-1899262182}} 7 October 2013
- Black Waters (Strong Winds vol. 5) {{ISBN|978-1899262267}} 2 July 2015
- Pebble (Strong Winds vol. 6) {{ISBN|978-1899262397}} 15 November 2018
- Voyage North (Strong Winds Vol. 7) {{ISBN|978-1899262540}} 15 October 2022
- (edited/published) Cheapjack. Being the True History of a Young Man's Adventures as a Fortune Teller, Grafter, Knocker-Worker, and Mounted Pitcher on the Market-Places and Fair-grounds of a Modern But Still Romantic England by Philip Allingham, {{ISBN|978-1899262021}} republished 1 July 2010
- The Adventures of Margery Allingham {{ISBN|978-1899262014}} 2 March 2009
- (writing as Julia Thorogood) Margery Allingham: A Biography, {{ISBN|978-0434779062}} 14 October 1991
- (published) The Oaken Heart: The Story of an English Village at War, by Margery Allingham, {{ISBN|978-1899262038}} re-issued 1988 and 3 March 2011
- (edited/published, as Julia Thorogood) Yesterday's Heroes, by June Jones, {{ISBN|978-0951085615}} 1 January 1986
- (edited/published, as Julia Thorogood, with June Jones) When I Was a Child...: From the Memories of Essex People Three Score Years and Ten, {{ISBN|978-0951085608}} 1985
References
External links
- [http://golden-duck.co.uk/julia-jones/ Author's website]
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