About Nicolette Jones

Nicolette Jones is a writer, journalist and broadcaster who has worked for national newspapers and the book trade press. Her book about the Victorian philanthropist Samuel Plimsoll and his campaign on behalf of sailors, The Plimsoll Sensation (Little, Brown), was published in June 2006, read as a Radio 4 Book of the Week, came out in paperback in May 2007 and won the 2006 Mountbatten Maritime Prize and the International Division of the 2007 US Maritime Literature Awards (see home page for reviews). Specialising in literary and arts journalism, she is the children's books reviewer for The Sunday Times (see links), and collaborated with Raymond Briggs on an overview of his work, Blooming Books (Cape 2003). See here for committees and prize panels. 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 with her husband and children in London.

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