Julia Jones (writer)

Julia Jones (writer)
Julia Jones, formerly also known as Julia Thorogood, is an English writer, editor and book publisher.
Early life
Julia Jones was born in Woodbridge, Suffolk in 1954. 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. 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. Jones hoped the trilogy would inspire a new generation of children to mess about in boats.
Aged-care advocacy
In November 2014, Jones and co-founder Nicci Gerrard set up an aged-care advocacy group, John's Campaign, to promote extended visiting rights for family carers of patients with dementia in hospitals in the United Kingdom.
Personal life
Jones has five children. She was previously married to Chris Thorogood; in 2019 she married Francis Wheen, a writer, journalist and broadcaster who is deputy editor of Private Eye.
Bibliography
Books by Julia Jones:
Uncommon Courage: The yachtsmen volunteers of World War Two 1 January 2021
(edited/published) The Cruise of Naromis: August in the Baltic 1939 by G. A. Jones 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 , 30 June 2016
Fifty Years in the Fiction Factory: The working life of Herbert Allingham 19 September 2012
Strong Winds series:
The Salt-Stained Book (Strong Winds vol. 1) 16 June 2011
A Ravelled Flag (Strong Winds vol. 2) 1 November 2011
Ghosting Home (Strong Winds vol. 3) 2 July 2012
The Lion of Sole Bay (Strong Winds vol. 4) 7 October 2013
Black Waters (Strong Winds vol. 5) 2 July 2015
Pebble (Strong Winds vol. 6) 15 November 2018
(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, republished 1 July 2010
The Adventures of Margery Allingham 2 March 2009
(writing as Julia Thorogood) Margery Allingham: A Biography, 14 October 1991
(published) The Oaken Heart: The Story of an English Village at War, by Margery Allingham, re-issued 1988 and 3 March 2011
(edited/published, as Julia Thorogood) Yesterday's Heroes, by June Jones, 1 January 1986
References
External links
Author's website
1954 births
British children's writers
Living people