Susanna Jones, educator, writer, author.
Susanna Jones, educator, writer, author.
Susanna Jones, educator, writer, author.
Susanna Jones, educator, writer, author.
Susanna Jones, educator, writer, author.
Susanna Jones, educator, writer, author.
Susanna Jones, educator, writer, author.
Susanna Jones, educator, writer, author.
Susanna Jones, educator, writer, author.
Susanna Jones, educator, writer, author.
Susanna Jones attended workshops under Liane Grunberg Wakabayashi, artist, journalist, teacher.
(The grisly headline leaves nothing to the imagination: "W...)
The grisly headline leaves nothing to the imagination: "Woman's torso recovered from Tokyo Bay. Believed to be missing British bartender Lily Bridges." The only suspect is Lucy Fly. Her friend is dead, her lover has disappeared, and as far as anyone is concerned, she's as good as guilty. Trapped in the interrogation room, Lucy begins to unravel two stories. As she excavates the dangerous secrets - both past and present - that haunt her waking mind, Lucy relates an unsettling life story that spans bustling Tokyo, the British countryside, and remote Japanese islands, each step taking us closer to the chilling truth about Lily's death.
https://www.amazon.com/Earthquake-Bird-Novel-Susanna-Jones/dp/0143135082/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=Susanna+Jones&qid=1607545224&s=books&sr=1-1
2001
(Runa is a young Japanese high school teacher leaving the ...)
Runa is a young Japanese high school teacher leaving the country to avoid the scandal she has created by sleeping with one of her students. She steals her sister's passport and boards the ferry to Shanghai. Then, careful to impersonate her sister, she is quiet, docile, and discreet… Meanwhile, on the last stretch of a fraught and tiring mission to find a wife, an Englishman also boards the ferry. Rebuffed in Tokyo, Ralph hopes that on the Chinese mainland he will meet a gentle, beautiful girl to return home with. When these two meet, suppressing at first their secrets and obsessions on this long and claustrophobic journey, we enter a desolate, emotional landscape as Runa's journey begins to turn into a surreal and terrifying nightmare...
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B005I4UBNO/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_hsch_vapi_taft_p1_i1
2003
(Isabel, Owen, and Julia were childhood friends. But when ...)
Isabel, Owen, and Julia were childhood friends. But when they were fifteen, Julia disappeared without a trace - an event that had a devastating impact on the others. Years later, Isabel returns to her home town in the north of England for Owen's funeral. She hadn't seen him since they recklessly burned down the local supermarket together; he was sent to prison and she, just shy of her 18th birthday, to a young offenders' centre. Isabel suspects that Owen was responsible for Julia's murder, and she's hoping finally to find some kind of resolution.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B005I4UBPC/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_hsch_vapi_taft_p1_i2
2007
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0955586011/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_hsch_vapi_taft_p1_i4
2008
(As Queen Victoria's reign reaches its end, Grace Farringd...)
As Queen Victoria's reign reaches its end, Grace Farringdon dreams of polar explorations and of escape from her stifling home with her protective parents and eccentric, agoraphobic sister. But when Grace secretly applies to Candlin, a women's college filled with intelligent, like-minded women, she finally feels her ambitions beginning to take shape. There she forms an Antarctic Exploration Society with the gregarious suffragette Locke, the reserved and studious Hooper, and the strange, enigmatic Parr, and before long the group are defying their times and their families by climbing the peaks of Snowdonia and planning an ambitious trip to the perilous Alps. Fifteen years later, trapped in her Dulwich home, Grace is haunted by the terrible events that took place out in the mountains.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B005I3PD8I/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_hsch_vapi_taft_p1_i3
2012
Susanna Jones was born in 1967, in Kingston upon Hull, United Kingdom. With her father a university professor and her mother a teacher (and later a school inspector), Susanna grew up in an academic atmosphere, always wanting to write. She spent her childhood in Hornsea in East Yorkshire but her mother is from Brighton and she attended many happy family holidays staying with relatives in Kemp Town.
Susanna Jones graduated in Drama/Theatre Studies from Royal Holloway College in 1988, where she became interested in Japanese culture after studying Japanese Noh theatre. She took her Master of Arts in creative writing at Manchester University, focusing on the novel. Writing novels proved a bit flat after drama, but she got a lot out of it all the same. Then it was back to Tokyo (always the plan) to finish her dissertation, a novel called The Cicada Trees. She attended Liane Wakabayashi's creative writing workshops in Tokyo. She describes Liane as a great editor, who never pushed students in any direction, but would make them work the same piece over and over again.
After Graduation, Susanna Jones worked abroad, in Japan and Turkey, as an English teacher, radio script editor, and a presenter for NHK Radio. While living in Tokyo, she started her first novel, The Earthquake Bird, a murder story. It has been compared favorably to the works of critically acclaimed British crime writers Minette Walters and Josephine Hart for its assured craftsmanship and dark, psychological suspense. She set the story in Tokyo because she knew how she wanted it to feel. The title came early, but the characters developed slowly. The novel's central character is Lucy Fly, a young British woman living and working in Tokyo as a technical translator. As the novel begins, Lucy's friend, Lily, has been found dismembered and floating in Tokyo Bay. Police investigating the murder pulls Lucy from her office for questioning. The psychological drama unfolds as Lucy, although she insists she is innocent of any wrongdoing, evades the investigators' questions and digresses to memories of her native Yorkshire, her arrival in Japan, her love affair with a photographer named Teiji, and her difficult friendship with Lily. During the interrogation, she gradually recalls the events that led to Lily's murder. London Daily Telegraph critic Lisa Allardice commented, "This spare, urgent debut is not only a polished crime novel but a hymn to Tokyo and an awkwardly tender love story."
Jones' second novel, Water Lily, is another psychological thriller set in Japan. Water Lily revolves around the character of Runa, an English teacher, and Ralph, an English shopkeeper. Jones's fourth novel, When Nights Were Cold, is an atmospheric, beautifully controlled account of intense female friendship and ambition. Susanna Jones has also published short stories, articles, and book reviews for publications including BBC Radio 4, The Guardian, The New Statesman, The Observer, and Literary Review. She was a lecturer in Fiction Writing at the University of Exeter from 2003-2005. She teaches on the Creative Writing MA at the Royal Holloway University of London.
Susanna Jones' works have been translated into over twenty languages and won several awards. Her debut novel, The Earthquake Bird, was adapted into a Netflix film, directed by Wash Westmoreland. The rights to the novel were first bought by Ridley Scott's production company Scott Free in 2014. Amazon Studios also expressed an interest. Her novel When Nights Were Cold was selected for Fiction Uncovered 2012.
(As Queen Victoria's reign reaches its end, Grace Farringd...)
2012(Runa is a young Japanese high school teacher leaving the ...)
2003(The grisly headline leaves nothing to the imagination: "W...)
2001(Isabel, Owen, and Julia were childhood friends. But when ...)
2007
Liane Grunberg Wakabayashi left her hometown of New York City in 1987 for a spiritual adventure in Tokyo that continues to this day. She is a journalist, exhibiting artist, and teacher of her own intuitive art approach called the Genesis Way. She has published articles about her thirty-year Tokyo life story and her family for the Jerusalem Post, the Jewish Forward, the Japan Times, and Kyoto Journal.
