About Nicolette Jones

Nicolette Jones is a writer, journalist and broadcaster who has worked for national newspapers and the book trade press. Specialising in literary and arts journalism, she is the children's books reviewer for The Sunday Times (see links). Her award-winning book about the Victorian philanthropist Samuel Plimsoll and his campaign on behalf of sailors, The Plimsoll Sensation (Little, Brown/Abacus), was a Radio 4 Book of the Week (see home page for reviews), and she collaborated with Raymond Briggs on an overview of his work, Blooming Books (Cape).

Director of the children's programme at the Sunday Times Oxford Literary Festival for 2010 and 2011, she is also a judge, with Philip Ardagh, Bruce Ingman, Shappi Khorsandi and Michael Rosen, of the 2010 Roald Dahl Funny Prize. She has been appointed to a Royal Literary Fund Fellowship at University College, London for 2010/11, and is a children's book scout for the Louise Allen-Jones Agency. She is also active (see links below) in her local community.

Originally from Leeds, she was a scholar at St. Hilda's College, Oxford and a Henry Fellow in the Graduate School of English at Yale, and she now lives in London with her children and her husband, Nicholas Clee, also a writer and journalist.

More information

• Committees and book prize panels
• Awards and prizes
• A selection of authors interviewed by Nicolette Jones at literary festivals

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