James Debens
Writer & Journalist

About James

James Debens is a writer and journalist, currently an editor at Newsweek. After his Classics degree at Gonville & Caius, Cambridge University, and journalism postgraduate qualifications at University of London, James joined The Mirror Group, breaking onto the set of the Bond movie, The World Is Not Enough, and interviewing celebrities such as Sir Ian McKellen and Joanna Lumley. James then joined the arts and leisure sections of The Daily Telegraph newspaper, spending years on the party circuit at events for Andrew Motion, Joanne Harris, Dame AS Byatt and many others.

James wrote TV previews for the Sunday Telegraph magazine. He then compiled the Critical List for The Sunday Times, including new books, and edited the columns of AA Gill and Germaine Greer. He later was an editor at a trio of magazine publishing houses and worked at The Guardian for a spell before writing catalogues for billionaire investors and articles for Twitter and England rugby. James’ debut novel, Where is Your God Now, was published in 2021. Old Masters in Marrakesh is his second novel

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Publications

Where is Your God Now (2021)

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