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Julia Boyd Biography

Julia Boyd

Julia Boyd is the author of The Story of Furniture, (Hamlyn 1975), Hannah Riddell, An Englishwoman in Japan (Tuttle, 1995) The Excellent Doctor Blackwell: A life of the First Woman Physician, (Sutton 2005; Kindle edition Thistle Publishing, 2013) and A Dance with the Dragon: The Vanished World of Peking’s Foreign Colony (I.B. Tauris 2012; Beijing: Commercial Press, 2016). Currently a trustee of the Wigmore Hall, she is a former governor of the English-Speaking Union and a former trustee of the Winston Churchill Memorial Trust. She is married to Sir John Boyd, who served as British Ambassador to Japan. Having spent 10 years in Cambridge (when her husband was Master of Churchill College) she now lives in London. 

Author News

  • Travellers in the Third Reich short-listed for prize 20 Oct 2023

    Julia Boyd’s Travellers in the Third Reich is among six short listed books in the popular history section of the Italian Acqui History Prize .

  • Travellers in the Third Reich wins LA Times Book Prize 13 Apr 2019

    Congratulations to Julia Boyd whose Travellers in the Third Reich has won the LA Times Book Prize in the history section.

  • Travellers short-listed for LA Times Book Prize 20 Feb 2019

    Congratulations to Julia Boyd whose Travellers in the Third Reich has been short listed in the history section for the 2018 Los Angeles Times Book Prize,

    Winners will be announced at a ceremony on April 12, the day before the start of the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books.

  • Travellers in the Third Reich a Spectator Book of the Year 12 Nov 2018

    Congratulations to Julia Boyd whose Travellers in the Third Reich was a Spectator Book of the Year this week.

  • Recent Foreign Rights sales 13 Aug 2018

    Russian and Spanish rights in Julia Boyd’s Travellers in the Third Reich .

    Chinese rights in Alex Larman’s Byron’s Women.

  • Travellers in the Third Reich spends five weeks in bestseller list 23 Jul 2018

    Congratulations to Julia Boyd whose Travellers in the Third Reich spent five weeks in the Sunday Times paperback non-fiction bestseller list .

  • Travellers in the Third Reich goes to no 3 09 Jul 2018

    Congratulations to Julia Boyd whose Travellers in the Third Reich has reached no 3 in the Sunday Times bestseller list.

  • Travellers in the Third Reich no 4 this week 15 Jun 2018

    Congratulations to Julia Boyd whose paperback edition of Travellers in the Third Reich is no 4 in the Sunday Times non-fiction bestseller list.

  • Travellers in Third Reich is top ten bestseller 14 Jun 2018

    Julia Boyd’s Travellers in the Third Reich has made it (at no.10) into the Sunday Times non-fiction paperback bestseller chart.

  • Travellers in the Third Reich is a top 5 bestseller 18 Sep 2017

    Congratulations to Julia Boyd whose Travellers in the Third Reich was a top five London Bestseller in the Standard.

  • Pegasus buy US and Canadian rights in two agency titles. 30 Aug 2017

    Pegasus have bought US and Canadian rights in Adam Ockelford’s Comparing Notes: How We Make Sense of Music Travellers in the Third Reich just out from Elliott & Thompson.

  • Two agency titles reviewed in weekend Telegraph 07 Aug 2017

    Lewis Jones described Julia Boyd’s Travellers in the Third Reich as ‘a compelling narrative’ where the voices of her interviewees ‘skilfully orchestrated, speak for themselves…with great eloquence whilst Ivan Hewett reviewing Adam Ockelford’s Comparing Notes: How We Make Sense of Music felt ‘there is much to learn from this book’.

  • Travellers in the Third Reich to Elliott & Thompson 03 Feb 2017

    Elliott & Thompson have bought UK & Commonwealth rights in Julia Boyd’s account of travellers in the Third Reich for publication in August.

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