Katherine Rundell

Katherine Rundell 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. She is a Fellow of St Catherine’s College, Oxford, and 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.

Instagram: @katherine.rundell

Books in order of publication:

Cartwheeling in Thunderstorms (2011)

Rooftoppers (2013)

The Wolf Wilder (2015)

The Explorer (2017)

One Christmas Wish (2017)

Into the Jungle (2018)

The Good Thieves (2019)

Why You Should Read Children's Books, Even Though You Are So Old and Wise (2019)

The Book of Hopes (2020)

Skysteppers (2021)

Super-Infinite (2022)

The Zebra's Great Escape (2022)

The Golden Mole (2022)

Impossible Creatures (2023)

The Poisoned King (2025)