My Books

  • October, October

    October. October won the 2022 Carnegie Medal, the 2022 Carnegie Shadowers’ Choice Award, the 2022 UKLA Award and was highly commended for the James Copper Wainwright Nature Writing prize. It was described by The Times as ‘a future wild classic’.

  • The Light in Everything

    The Light in Everything was selected as a Times Children’s Book of the Year, a Sunday Times and Times Book of the Week, and a 5* Telegraph Children’s Book of the Week. It has been shortlisted for the 2023 Carnegie Medal, the 2023 UKLA Award and the 2023 FCBG Award.

  • The Space We're In

    The Space We’re In was selected as the Sunday Times Book of the Week, as well as being highly commended for the 2020 Branford Boase Award and longlisted for the 2021 Carnegie Medal.

  • The Thames and Tide Club

    The first in a magical series for younger children, The Thames and Tide Club is about mudlarking, hidden treasure, and mysterious underwater goings-on. It is published in May 2023.

  • Birdsong

    Birdsong is published by Barrington Stoke, who are committed to making books accessible to children with dyslexia. It was nominated for the 2023 Carnegie Medal.

  • Nightjar

    Nightjar is Birdsong’s companion book and will be published by Barrington Stoke in June 2023.