Ellen Jones crafts compelling historical novels that bring to life formidable and passionate figures from the past. Her writing, deeply rooted in meticulous historical research and enriched by extensive travel across Europe, focuses on pivotal individuals who shaped eras. Jones excels at immersing readers in richly detailed historical settings, exploring the motivations and lives of remarkable women. Her works offer a captivating journey into bygone times and the complex psyches of those who dared to influence history.
Ellen Jones offers a new framework for understanding literary multilingualism, emphasizing how authors and translators can use its defamiliarizing and disruptive potential. She examines the connection between translation and multilingualism and considers its significance for the theory, practice, and publishing of literature in translation.
Jones combines her personal experience as a mixed-race woman who cares about racism with her professional expertise as a film and TV journalist of twenty years standing, to ask - and answer - several questions: Is there such a thing as an Indigenous western?