Julia Golding
Former British diplomat and policy adviser on conflict issues for Oxfam, an international charity, Julia Golding is now best known as a multi-award-winning author of over sixty novels for adults and children. She has won awards in the UK and USA, including the Waterstones’ Children’s Book of the Year, the Nestlé Book Prize, and the Romantic Novelist Association Prize. Her books have been translated into over twenty languages and sold more than a million copies worldwide. She writes under two other pseudonyms, Joss Stirling and Eve Edwards. This year she has launched a new historical thriller series with HarperCollins.
She has written extensively on science and faith for children in the series The Curious Science Quest with Professor Andrew Briggs and artist Roger Wagner. This led to a play on the first female scientist of the modern age, Caroline Herschel, called Queen of the Night, an inspiring story of struggle against the odds. It had its first performance in Bath in 2023. Julia is looking for opportunities for a full staging so do get in touch if you are interested. Julia is also working on four screenwriting projects with Full Table Productions, Zero Gravity and Wild Mercury.
Julia established in 2021 and runs the Oxford Centre for Fantasy, which is dedicated to Tolkien and his fellow Inklings. The centre has a weekly podcast ‘Mythmakers’, covering matters interesting to fantasy fans and fantasy creatives. The centre runs creative writing courses, a novel prize for debut authors, and has a house for scholars in road where Tolkien was living when he wrote his most famous books. For more information go to www.oxfordcentreforfantasy.org
Golding also hosts the podcast ‘What Would Jane Do?’ now in its fifth season, where she and fellow Austen expert Kate MacFarlane take a Regency perspective on modern day issues and report any Jane Austen news to the fanbase.
She has a doctorate in English Literature of the Romantic Era from Oxford University.
Married with three grown-up children, she lives in a beautiful village near Oxford.