#Julia jones father series#

Fifty Years in the Fiction Factory: The working life of Herbert Allingham ISBN 978-1899262076 19 September 2012.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.(edited/published) The Cruise of Naromis: August in the Baltic 1939 by G.Uncommon Courage: The yachtsmen volunteers of World War Two ISBN 978-1472987105 1 January 2021.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. 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. Jones hoped the trilogy would inspire a new generation of children to mess about in boats.

The Salt-Stained Book, the first part of a planned sailing adventure trilogy, was released in June 2011.

#Julia jones father series#

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. Jones has also studied the fiction writing of Margery Allingham's father, Herbert Allingham. Jones's interest in the Allingham family grew she researched Margery Allingham's life and wrote a biography published in 1991. 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. This nautical connection with Ransome, along with numerous pony books, helped to shape a lifelong enthusiasm for books. 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. Julia Jones was born in Woodbridge, Suffolk in 1954. Julia Jones, formerly also known as Julia Thorogood, is an English writer, editor and book publisher.