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), and children's programme director for the Sunday Times Oxford Literary Festival (at which she is also programming, for 2010, a day of events for adults involving alumnae of St Hilda's College).  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). She collaborated with Raymond Briggs on an overview of his work, Blooming Books (Cape 2003), and has been appointed to a Royal Literary Fund Fellowship for 2010/11.

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.

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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