James Cook is an author, editor and arts journalist based in London. His first book, Memory Songs – an exploration of the music that shaped the 90s – was published by Unbound in 2018; his second, In Her Room: How Music Helped Me Connect With My Autistic Daughter, by Bonnier Books UK in 2020. He is currently an editor at Review 31 magazine. His short fiction and essays have appeared in the anthologies Vagabond Holes (Fremantle Press/Penguin Australia) and Garden Among Fires (Dodo Ink). A regular contributor to the Times Literary Supplement,his journalism has appeared in the Guardian,the Saturday Telegraph, Art Review, 3 A.M. magazine, Minor Lits, Boundless magazine, Litro and Review 31 among others. In 2017, with his twin brother, novelist Jude Cook, James was a guest on the award-winning literary podcast Backlisted. In 2024, he returned to talk about Michael Powell’s memoir A Life in Movies. James is represented by Oli Munson at the A. M. Heath Literary Agency.
For TLC James reads non-fiction, memoir, and fiction.
