Jones has also studied the fiction writing of Margery Allingham's father, Herbert Allingham. She researched Margery Allingham's life and wrote a biography published in 1991. Jones's interest in the Allingham family grew. This nautical connection with Ransome, along with numerous pony books, helped to shape a lifelong enthusiasm for books Jones opened a bookshop in Ingatestone, Essex, which she then developed into a small-scale local publishing business, reissuing a Second World War autobiography by crime writer Margery Allingham. When she was 3 years old, her father George Jones bought the wooden sailing ketch Peter Duck, a yacht originally commissioned and owned by children's novelist Arthur Ransome and named for a character in one of his novels. Julia Jones was born in Woodbridge, Suffolk in 1954. Julia Jones, formerly also known as Julia Thorogood, is an English writer, editor, book publisher and classic yacht owner. (edited/published, as Julia Thorogood)Yesterday's Heroes, by June Jones, January 1, 1986. (published) The Oaken Heart: The Story of an English Village at War, by Margery Allingham, re-issued 1988 (writing as Julia Thorogood) Margery Allingham: A Biography, October 14, 1991 The Adventures of Margery Allingham March 2, 2009

Jones hoped the trilogy would inspire a new generation of children to mess about in boats.īeing the True History of a Young Manitoba's Adventures as a Fortune Teller, Grafter, Knocker-Worker, and Mounted Pitcher on the Market-Places and Fair-grounds of a Modern But Still Romantic England by Philip Allingham, republished July 1, 2010 The Salt-Stained Book, the first part of a planned sailing adventure trilogy, was released in June 2011. In 2006, while working on a Doctor of Philosophy on Herbert Allingham, Jones decided to become a writer of adventure stories like the Swallows and Amazons series of Arthur Ransome she had read as a child.

The Salt-Stained Book by Julia Jones