Katherine Rundell

Katherine Rundell spent her childhood in Africa and Europe. After completing a degree in English and a doctorate on John Donne, she is now a full-time writer and a Fellow of St Catherine’s College, Oxford, where she studies Renaissance literature. Katherine is a multi-million-bestselling author whose novels for children have won the Waterstones Book of the Year, the Blue Peter Book Award and the Costa Children’s Book Award, among many others. In 2024 she was named the British Book Awards Author of the Year, and Impossible Creatures won the Children’s Fiction Book of the Year. Her books for adults include Super-Infinite, winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize. Very occasionally she goes climbing across the rooftops of Oxford, late at night.