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thumb Tobias Jones is a British author and journalist. He was educated at Jesus College, Oxford, and then worked at the ''London Review of Books'' and the ''Independent on Sunday''. He moved to Parma in Italy in 1999, returning to the UK in 2004. Jones and his wife now manage a ten acre woodland shelter near Shepton Mallet, Somerset called (Windsor Hill Wood ). The sanctuary is the subject of his 7th book, (A Place of Refuge ). == Non-Fiction == His first book, (''The Dark Heart of Italy'' ) was a bestseller in Britain, Italy and the United States. ("''Subtle, witty, inventive and intelligent... illuminating and entertaining.''" The Observer.) Following its publication, he was short-listed for the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year award. In January 2007 he published his second book (''Utopian Dreams'' ) (Faber & Faber) after a year spent travelling with his wife Francesca and first daughter Benedetta across five communities in Britain and Italy. The book was featured on BBC Radio 4's ''Start the Week'' as well as being Book of the Week on that network. ("''Perceptive, thought-provoking and enormously engaging... not only an extremely wise book, but also an important one.''" Daily Telegraph.) Jones' third non-fiction book, (''Blood on the Altar'' ), is (a real-life mystery about the disappearance of a teenager in a church in Potenza in 1993 ). The case took nearly 20 years to be solved, in which time her family came up against a corrupt church, organised crime and the chronic indifference of the authorities. It was only when a housewife over a thousand miles away in Bournemouth, England, was brutally murdered that the net finally closed in on a hair fetishist from Potenza. ''Blood on the Altar'' was long-listed for the Gordon Burn (Prize ). (''"He writes with the fluent clarity and incisive journalistic analysis that characterised his popular Dark Heart of Italy (2003), but this book is angrier, and it has that note of obsession which is inevitable – perhaps essential – in a book-length investigation of this sort."'' The Guardian) 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Tobias Jones (writer)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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