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 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