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Katherine Rundell was born in 1987 and grew up in Africa and Europe. In 2008 she was elected a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford. Her first book, The Girl Savage, was born of her love of Zimbabwe and her own childhood there; her second, Rooftoppers, was inspired by summers working in Paris and by night-time trespassing on the rooftops of All Souls. She is currently working on her doctorate alongside an adult novel.
Awards: Libbys (2025), Nibbies (2024), Waterstones (2023), Costa (2017) see all
Genres: Young Adult Fiction, Children's Fiction
New and upcoming books
Series
Impossible Creatures
1. Impossible Creatures (2023)
2. The Poisoned King (2025)
3. The Neverfear (2026)
1. Impossible Creatures (2023)
2. The Poisoned King (2025)
3. The Neverfear (2026)
Novels
The Girl Savage (2011)
aka Cartwheeling in Thunderstorms
Rooftoppers (2013)
The Wolf Wilder (2015)
The Explorer (2017)
One Christmas Wish (2017)
The Good Thieves (2019)
The Zebra's Great Escape (2022)
aka Cartwheeling in Thunderstorms
Rooftoppers (2013)
The Wolf Wilder (2015)
The Explorer (2017)
One Christmas Wish (2017)
The Good Thieves (2019)
The Zebra's Great Escape (2022)
Collections
Anthologies edited
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Katherine Rundell recommends
The Winter Guest (2026)
Sarah Moss
"I love Sarah Moss's work. The Winter Guest was pure pleasure from start to finish; funny, gripping and sharp - I read it in a single, gleeful sitting."
You Are Here (2024)
David Nicholls
"David Nicholls wears his formidable intelligence so generously and so lightly that you scarcely notice the skill it takes to write a book like this: a story at once passionately funny and richly human. You Are Here is gorgeously witty and joyful, kind and sad: a book you do not want to be away from."
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