Imogen Edwards-Jones

http://www.imogenedwardsjones.com

Imogen Edwards-Jones is an award winning journalist and broadcaster. Having won The Independent scholarship on leaving Bristol University with a degree in Russian, she has gone on to be a columnist on The Sunday Times, The Mail on Sunday, Arena Magazine, The Independent and most recently in The Times, where she wrote the extremely popular showbiz column —‘Arty Animal’— which went on to inspire the best selling novel — My Canapé Hell. As a broadcaster she started out working on This Morning, becoming a presenter on the Channel 4 arts show, Big Mouth and most recently on the Channel 4 satirical comedy show — This Week Only.

Author of the well-received travel book — The Taming of Eagles — about the first 100 days of the collapse of Communism, she went on to present the BBC Radio 4 documentary— Bucks in the USSR. Imogen is the author of three more novels Shagpile, The Wendy House, Tuscany for Beginners and co-edited Big Night Out — the celebrity collection of short stories with contributions from Kate Moss to Bob Geldoff — in aid of the War Child charity.

In the last three years she has been responsible for the hugely successful Babylon series, selling over three quarters of a million copies in the UK. This includes the Sunday Times Top Ten bestsellers Hotel Babylon, Air Babylon, Fashion Babylon and Beach Babylon. They have all been translated into some twenty different languages worldwide. Hotel Babylon was a prime time hit on BBC 1, going to four series, as well as playing in the USA on BBC America. Fashion Babylon is currently a prime time TV show for BBC 1 — Material Girl. Air, Pop and Wedding are all in development either as films or TV shows for the BBC.

She is married to the Oscar and BAFTA award-winning producer Kenton Allen and they have one daughter, whose difficult IVF conception became the popular Daily Telegraph column ‘Shall I Be A Mother?’ and subsequently the book, The Stork Club, as well as fourth-month-old son.

She is currently working on scripts for BBC 1’s as well as the forthcoming Dr Babylon which is being published in 2011.