Location: United Kingdom
Member Since:
Aug. 28, 2011
Kathleen Jones
Biography
KATHLEEN JONES was born and brought up on a hill farm in Cumbria and now lives with her partner, sculptor Neil Ferber, on the edge of the English Lake District. She has been writing since she was a child and has published ten books including six biographies and a collection of poetry. She lived for several years in Africa and the Middle East, where she worked for the Qatar Broadcasting Corporation. Since then she has written extensively for BBC radio and contributed to several television documentaries.
Kathleen is currently a Royal Literary Fund Fellow. Her latest biography, 'Katherine Mansfield: The Storyteller' was published by Penguin NZ in August, and by Edinburgh University Press in December 2010. It is available on Amazon.co.uk
She is best known for her award-winning biographies, but has also published poetry, feature articles and short fiction in a variety of national and international magazines and newspapers. Her short stories have been broadcast on BBC Radio and on radio networks in Holland, Germany and Spain. As a journalist Kathleen has written articles and reviews for the Independent, the Guardian, the Daily Express, and the TLS, as well as magazines such as SHE and Cosmo. A prize-winning, collection of poetry 'Unwritten Lives' was published by Redbeck Press in 1995 and a further collection 'Not Saying Goodbye at Gate 21' is being published by Templar Poetry in 2011. Kathleen is an enthusiastic blogger, writing an on-line journal 'A Writer's Life' and a book review blog. She is part of the 'Tuesday Poem' group, based in New Zealand.
Kathleen Jones regularly leads creative writing workshops for fiction, poetry and life writing. In June each year she also tutors a residential writing course at Peralta in Italy with American novelist Mary-Rose Hayes.
Kathleen is currently a Royal Literary Fund Fellow. Her latest biography, 'Katherine Mansfield: The Storyteller' was published by Penguin NZ in August, and by Edinburgh University Press in December 2010. It is available on Amazon.co.uk
She is best known for her award-winning biographies, but has also published poetry, feature articles and short fiction in a variety of national and international magazines and newspapers. Her short stories have been broadcast on BBC Radio and on radio networks in Holland, Germany and Spain. As a journalist Kathleen has written articles and reviews for the Independent, the Guardian, the Daily Express, and the TLS, as well as magazines such as SHE and Cosmo. A prize-winning, collection of poetry 'Unwritten Lives' was published by Redbeck Press in 1995 and a further collection 'Not Saying Goodbye at Gate 21' is being published by Templar Poetry in 2011. Kathleen is an enthusiastic blogger, writing an on-line journal 'A Writer's Life' and a book review blog. She is part of the 'Tuesday Poem' group, based in New Zealand.
Kathleen Jones regularly leads creative writing workshops for fiction, poetry and life writing. In June each year she also tutors a residential writing course at Peralta in Italy with American novelist Mary-Rose Hayes.
Where to find Kathleen Jones online
Books
Dreams of the Blue Poppy
by Kathleen Jones
Price:
$6.00 USD.
Words: 90,930.
Language:
English.
Published: March 25, 2013
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Categories:
Fiction » Historical » United Kingdom
An historical romance novel by Angela Locke set in Cumbria and the Himalayas. "The tale unfolds and flows smoothly from beginning to end, with captivating characters, that you remember days after finishing the novel."
Katherine Mansfield: The Story-Teller
by Kathleen Jones
Price:
$8.00 USD.
Words: 215,570.
Language:
English.
Published: January 16, 2013
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Categories:
Nonfiction » Biography » Literary biography
The compelling, intimate, and often controversial, story of Katherine Mansfield - one of the world's greatest short story writers – the only writer Virginia Woolf confessed to being afraid of. Using previously unavailable material Jones vividly evokes the tragic, but courageous, drama of this fragile yet feisty author: her life, loves and her passion for writing.
A Passionate Sisterhood
by Kathleen Jones
Price:
$4.99 USD.
Words: 133,700.
Language:
English.
Published: September 5, 2011
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Categories:
Nonfiction » Biography » Literary biography
The relationships of the Lake Poets, Wordsworth, Coleridge and Southey have become a romantic literary myth. The letters and journals of their sisters, wives and daughters form the basis for this illuminating new account of their interconnected lives - their passionate attachments, petty jealousies, and deaths of children - and contribute to a greater understanding of the poets.
Three
by Kathleen Jones
Price:
$0.99 USD.
Words: 10,940.
Language:
English.
Published: September 4, 2011
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Categories:
Fiction » Literature » Literary
Three short stories from award-winning author Kathleen Jones, whose biographies have been published by Penguin, Constable, Time Warner, Virago and Bloomsbury. Her fiction has appeared in numerous anthologies and been broadcast on radio networks in Britain, Holland, Spain and Germany. She also writes poetry, published by Templar Poetry UK. Kathleen divides her time between England and Italy.
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