Anna James

Anna James is a freelance writer and journalist. After spending five years as a secondary school librarian in the Midlands she joined The Bookseller magazine as its book news editor in 2014. At the end of 2015 she left to pursue a freelance career and has written for ELLE UK, Buzzfeed, The Pool, The LA Times and several other outlets. She is also a literary event chair, hosting the Lush Book Club, and interviewing authors at bookshops and festivals. She also talks and writes about books across several social channels under the A Case for Books including Twitter and YouTube. In 2015 she was shortlisted for the Kim Scott Walwyn Prize for women in publishing.

In summer 2018 Anna contributed a story to a collection of Wuthering Heights inspired shortstories, I Am Heathcliff, which was published by The Borough Press and edited by Kate Mosse. Her debut children's book, Pages & Co: Tilly and the Bookwanderers, was HarperCollins Children’s flagship debut of autumn 2018. The second in the series Pages & Co.: Tilly and the Lost Fairytales was published in September 2019.

Twitter: @acaseforbooks
Instagram: @acaseofbooks
YouTube: A Case of Books

Books in order of publication:

Pages & Co: Tilly and the Bookwanderers (2018)

Pages & Co: Tilly and the Lost Fairy Tales (2019)

Pages & Co: Tilly and the Map of Stories (2020)

'The Magical Thing About Reading,' The Book of Hopes (2020)

Pages & Co: The Book Smugglers (2021)

Pages & Co: The Treehouse Library (2022)

Pages & Co: The Last Bookwanderer (2023)

Chronicles of Whetherwhy: The Age of Enchantment (2025)​