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Katherine Rundell


(b.1987)

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.
 

Genres: Young Adult Fiction, Children's Fiction
 
New and upcoming books
November 2024

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Vanishing Treasures
 
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)
   Impossible Creatures (2023)
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Collections
   Into the Jungle (2018)
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Anthologies edited
   The Book of Hopes (2020)
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Series contributed to
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Non fiction show
 
Omnibus editions show
 
Katherine Rundell recommends
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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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Winter Animals (2024)
Ashani Lewis
"Excellent . . . Ashani Lewis is superbly talented."
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The Good Turn (2022)
Sharna Jackson
"I utterly loved The Good Turn; it's bone-deep brilliant; a joy to the very end. It's so warm and so funny, and so ferociously on the side of justice and of hope. I wanted to know the kids; I loved them like they were real - and I wanted every child I know to have the chance to be in the Copseys. It has a clarity to it that means that to read it feels like being nourished. I adored it."

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Awards
Blue Peter Book Award Best Book winner (2014) : Rooftoppers
Carnegie Medal Best Book nominee (2014) : Rooftoppers
Costa Children's Book Award Best Book winner (2017) : The Explorer


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