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Jane Jakeman is a writer and art historian who has published numerous (over a hundred) reviews and articles on travel, art, etc. in magazines and newspapers, including The Guardian, The Independent, The Sunday Times, The Times Literary Supplement, The Modern Review and Oxford Today. She has written six works of crime fiction, the ‘Lord Ambrose Malfine’ trilogy featuring a Byronic hero, two modern works, Death in the South of France and Death at Versailles and In the Kingdom of Mists, set during Monet’s visit to London in 1900. Welsh by birth and schooling, Jane has a degree in English from Birmingham University, where her teachers included Malcolm Bradbury and David Lodge, and a doctorate in Middle Eastern art history from Oxford University, where as a mature student she was a member of St John’s College. Jane has been on the staff of the Bodleian and Ashmolean libraries and was Librarian to the Oxford English Dictionary, but now writes full-time. She reviews crime fiction for The Independent and is an experienced public speaker at conventions and festivals. She has made a special study of the claim that the painter Walter Sickert was Jack the Ripper, and delivered a lecture refuting it in the National Film Theatre for the Crime Time event in 1002. In 2004 she will be on the jury for the ‘Crime Fiction Booker’, the Golden Dagger award of the best crime novel of the year. She has travelled widely in Europe and the Middle East and now lives in Oxford with her Egyptologist husband and their two cats, Philosopher and Explorer, named after their respective temperaments. |
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