Belinda Jones (born 20 December 1967) is an English writer.

Biography

Jones was born in

Royal Tunbridge Wells Royal Tunbridge Wells is a town in Kent, England, southeast of central London. It lies close to the border with East Sussex on the northern edge of the High Weald, whose sandstone geology is exemplified by the rock formation High Rocks. ...

, Kent to parents Pamela (née Gwyther) and Trefor Jones. She grew up in

Taunton Taunton () is the county town of Somerset, England, with a 2011 population of 69,570. Its thousand-year history includes a 10th-century monastic foundation, Taunton Castle, which later became a priory. The Normans built a castle owned by the ...

, Devon, and studied at the London College of Printing. Her first job was on the children's comic, '' Postman Pat''. At the age of 20, she moved on to become a feature writer on ''

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''. She spent four years working on ''

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'' magazine as a feature writer. She has had work published in '' Elle'', ''

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'', '' FHM'', '' Bliss'', ''Company'', and ''

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''. In 1997 she moved to

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, but later returned to the UK where she wrote her successful first novel, ''Divas Las Vegas''. Her second novel was ''I Love Capri''. In 2009 she switched publisher from the Arrow imprint of

Random House Random House is an American book publisher and the largest general-interest paperback publisher in the world. The company has several independently managed subsidiaries around the world. It is part of Penguin Random House, which is owned by Germ ...

to Hodder. Jones is the co-founder of

Notting Hill Press Notting Hill Press, founded in 2012 by authors Michele Gorman,Joyce Lamb"Discover the best of British chick lit/rom-com" Happy Ever After – ''USA Today'', 3 June 2013. Belinda Jones and Talli Roland, was a British book publisher. Notting Hil ...

with authors Talli Roland and

Michele Gorman Michele Gorman is an American-born British author. Gorman is represented by Hardman & Swainson. Her debut, ''Single in the City'', was published by Penguin Books; Gorman has now published more than a dozen books with Notting Hill Press in the ...

. Her novels mainly fall into the women's fiction or "

chick lit Chick lit is a term used to describe a type of popular fiction targeted at younger women. Widely used in the 1990s and 2000s, the term has fallen out of fashion with publishers while writers and critics have rejected its inherent sexism. Novels id ...

" categories, and usually combine romance and travel. ''On the Road to Mr. Right'' is an autobiographical travelogue.

Bibliography

* 2001 – ''Divas Las Vegas'' * 2002 – ''I Love Capri'' * 2003 – ''The California Club'' * 2004 – ''On the Road to Mr. Right'' * 2005 – ''The Paradise Room'' * 2006 – ''Cafe Tropicana'' * 2007 – ''The Love Academy'' * 2008 – ''Out of the Blue'' * 2010 – ''Living La Vida Loca'' * 2011 – ''California Dreamers aka Hollywood Calling'' * 2012 – ''Winter Wonderland * 2014 – ''The Travelling Tea Shop'' * 2018 – ''Bodie on the Road: Travels with a Rescue Pup in the Dogged Pursuit of Happiness'' ( Skyhorse)

References

External links

Official Site

Penguin Random House profile

Hodder author profile
{{DEFAULTSORT:Jones, Belinda 1967 births Living people English women novelists People from Royal Tunbridge Wells English writers