Kathleen Jones
Kathleen Jones was born and brought up on a remote hill farm in the English Lake District. She started writing and publishing while still at school. She married as a teenager and lived in Africa and the Middle East, where she worked in English broadcasting. Kathleen is a poet, biographer and novelist, author of eight biographies including Catherine Cookson: The Biography, published by Time Warner, which was in the top ten best seller lists for 8 weeks. She has also worked in broadcast journalism and has won national awards for her short fiction and poetry. Kathleen is the author of two novels, The Centauress and The Sun’s Companion, and an award winning collection of poetry, ‘Not Saying Goodbye at Gate 21', published by Templar Poetry in 2012.
Kathleen now lives with a sculptor who works in Italy. She has taught creative writing in a number of universities, is a Royal Literary Fund Fellow, and in 2012 was elected a Fellow of the English Association for services to literature.
Credentials
Kathleen Jones in 60 seconds
When did you start writing?
I don’t really remember. We lived in an old farmhouse with no central heating, so it would have had to be somewhere warm.What do you love about short stories?
I think it’s the form - there’s a definite shape to them that’s very pleasing, like poetry. And then there’s the challenge of getting absolutely everything into such a small space.Do you write in other forms?
I write poetry, biography and journalism. The last two are my bread and butter.What distracts you from writing?
Almost everything! I have to be very disciplined.Outside of writing, what are your other passions?
Travelling - I’m a passionate nomad. But I also love music, food and gardens.What is your favourite book?
Stories? It would have to be either James Joyce’s The Dead, or Katherine Mansfield’s Daughters of the Late Colonel. Favourite books change - at the moment it’s Maggie O’Farrell’s The Hand that First Held Mine.Who are your favourite writers?
Seamus Heaney, Barbara Kingsolver and Katherine Mansfield.Where is your dream location?
Kaikoura, New Zealand. It has snow-covered mountains, the sea, and a wild coastline.What one item would you put into Room 101?
Income tax returns!Do you have any advice for new writers?
Stop procrastinating and just do it! You can always agonise over the editing later.Work by Kathleen Jones:
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Ursula has taken a job as an intern, working for a world famous artist in Tuscany. But he has a beautiful wife. Soon Ursula is locked in a triangular relationship and she dreams of mythical beasts emerging from the pine forests.
The Absence of Henry Swail
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Henry Swail went missing years ago in peculiar circumstances. No one knows why he left or where he is now. Officially, he’s presumed dead. But who is this strange man asking about him?
Jazz Cafe
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Kate is a jazz singer, living happily with her musician husband. That is, until Maggi comes to stay.
Living With The Dead
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Ellie works in a mortuary and lives on the premises. And then she falls in love with someone her employers consider totally unsuitable.
Pearls
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Aine is a wet nurse on a big estate in 19th century Ireland and her life is in danger unless she can escape. But how can she leave the child? And where is she to get the money to go to America.
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