Katherine Rundell

Katherine Rundell is a multi-million-bestselling author whose novels for children have won the Waterstones Children's Book Prize, the Blue Peter Book Award and the Costa Children's Book Award, among many others. Impossible Creatures was Waterstones Book of the Year 2023, and in 2024 Katherine 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 Quondam Fellow of All Souls College and a Fellow of St Catherine's College, Oxford, where she works on Renaissance literature. 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.

Journal & Events

  • From Jakarta With Love: A New Chapter for Goldsboro Books

    From Jakarta With Love: A New Chapter for Gold...

    David H Headley

    David Headley reflects on his visit to Indonesia, the wonderful people he met and why Goldsboro Books is bringing signed first editions closer to Indonesian readers. I've just returned from...

    David H Headley

    From Jakarta With Love: A New Chapter for Gold...

    David Headley reflects on his visit to Indonesia, the wonderful people he met and why Goldsboro Books is bringing signed first editions closer to Indonesian readers. I've just returned from...

  • Glass Bell Award - WINNER 2026

    Glass Bell Award - WINNER 2026

    Goldsboro Books

    Goldsboro Books is thrilled to announce that THE NAMES by Florence Knapp has been named the winner of the 2026 Glass Bell Award, marking the tenth year of the prize....

    Goldsboro Books

    Glass Bell Award - WINNER 2026

    Goldsboro Books is thrilled to announce that THE NAMES by Florence Knapp has been named the winner of the 2026 Glass Bell Award, marking the tenth year of the prize....

  • Crime Collective: December 2026 Revealed

    Crime Collective: December 2026 Revealed

    Rebecca McDonnell

    Why We Chose The Numbers for December 2026 The Numbers by David Parry is a relentlessly paced conspiracy thriller packed with twists, secrets and a terrifying question: what if anyone...

    Rebecca McDonnell

    Crime Collective: December 2026 Revealed

    Why We Chose The Numbers for December 2026 The Numbers by David Parry is a relentlessly paced conspiracy thriller packed with twists, secrets and a terrifying question: what if anyone...

  • Fresh Ink: December 2026 Revealed

    Fresh Ink: December 2026 Revealed

    Rebecca McDonnell

    Why We Chose Imaginary Forces by Georgia Moorhouse for Fresh Ink, December 2026 “With shades of Patricia Highsmith, Imaginary Forces is a cut above. With a chilling story and an...

    Rebecca McDonnell

    Fresh Ink: December 2026 Revealed

    Why We Chose Imaginary Forces by Georgia Moorhouse for Fresh Ink, December 2026 “With shades of Patricia Highsmith, Imaginary Forces is a cut above. With a chilling story and an...

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