AUTHOR
Imogen Edwards-Jones is an award-winning journalist, broadcaster, novelist and screenwriter.
She was responsible for the hugely successful Babylon series, which includes the Sunday Times bestsellers Hotel Babylon, Air Babylon, Fashion Babylon, Beach Babylon, Hospital Babylon, Pop Babylon and Restaurant Babylon. The series has sold over 1.5 million copies in the UK alone, been translated into some twenty different languages worldwide and made into two BBC Primetime TV shows.
She is also the critically acclaimed author of six novels – My Canapé Hell, Shagpile, The Wendy House, Tuscany for Beginners and most recently a story of black magic, the occult and Rasputin in the Russian Court – The Witches of St Petersburg, as well as the comedy satire – Have You Got Anything Stronger?
She wrote The Stork Club, a memoir of her struggle to have children through IVF, she has co-edited the In Bed With erotica collection which included stories from Fay Weldon and Esther Freud and the bestselling celebrity-packed short story collection, Big Night Out, for the War Child charity.
A broadcaster for BBC Radio 4 and 5, on numerous shows, she was television presenter, (including Fashion Correspondent on this This Morning with Richard and Judy) and a panellist on the contemporary news quiz for Channel 4 – This Week Only with Lauren Laverne and Nick Frost.
Imogen went into journalism after she won the Independent newspaper’s writer’s scholarship straight from Bristol University, where she read Russian. She has gone on to write columns in The Times, the Independent, the Mail on Sunday and The Sunday Times.
She was the Rave Correspondent for the Independent newspaper, the Sex Columnist for Arena Magazine and Arts Correspondent for The Times for 5 years where she also had a weekly column and interview slot – travelling to Moscow for the opening of Ralph Fiennes’s Ivanov with The Almeida Theatre and flying to Los Angeles to speak to Barry Manilow before the Emmys. She has written for numerous other Fleet Street newspapers and magazines for the past 25 years. She has presented a podcast – The Femail Half with Sarah Vine – since 2021
An honorary Cossack, she has travelled extensively in the old Soviet Union writing a travel book, The Taming Of Eagles, Exploring the New Russia. She also lived and studied in Kyiv, Ukraine. She has ghosted four Sunday Times bestselling books, including Four Mums in a Boat (which has been optioned being made into a Hollywood movie) and was Editorial Consultant on Belgravia for Julian Fellowes (ITV), which was made into a Prime Time TV series for ITV. She is currently working on a project with the international best-selling writer James Patterson.
Her latest novel – The Witch’s Daughter – was published by Head of Zeus in December 2023. The prequel has recently been optioned in Los Angeles.
She is co-founder of The Great Big Book Club, an on-line book community, which she set up during the COVID 19 Pandemic to help writers reach their audience during lockdown and is on the board of The Criterion Theatre in London’s West End,
She is married to Kenton Allen, the BAFTA award-winning producer and lives in London, with their two children.
JOURNALIST & BROADCASTER
A broadcaster for BBC Radio 4 and 5, a television presenter, Imogen went into journalism after she won the Independent writer’s scholarship straight from Bristol University, where she read Russian. She has gone on to write columns in The Times, the Independent, the Mail on Sunday, Arena Magazine, and The Sunday Times. She has written for numerous other Fleet Street newspapers and magazines for the past 25 years.
As a broadcaster she was fashion correspondent for This Morning with Richard and Judy, a presenter on the Channel 4 arts show, Big Mouth, a newscaster at L!ve TV and a the panelist Channel 4 satirical comedy show – This Week Only.
PERSONAL LIFE
An honorary Cossack, she has travelled extensively in the old Soviet Union writing a travel book, The Taming Of Eagles, Exploring the New Russia. And she has ghosted four Sunday Times bestselling books, including Four Mums in a Boat (which is currently being made in to a Hollywood movie) and Belgravia for Julian Fellowes.
She is married to Kenton Allen, the Oscar and BAFTA award-winning producer and lives in London, with two children.
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