There was Tolkien, there is Pullman and now there is Katherine Rundell. Wondrous invention, marvellous writing. Michael Morpurgo

Between the covers of Impossible Creatures is a world as enchanting, as perilous, as richly imagined as Narnia or Middle Earth. Frank Cottrell-Boyce

Rundell’s pen is gold-tipped. The Sunday Times

Katherine Rundell is an award-winning author, screenwriter, presenter, and academic. Her books have sold over 3 million copies worldwide, including the bestselling children’s novels ROOFTOPPERS, THE EXPLORER and THE WOLF WILDER. Her most recent novel IMPOSSIBLE CREATURES was an instant Sunday Times Bestseller and #1 NYT Bestseller, receiving universal critical acclaim and winning Waterstones 2023 Book of the Year Award. In 2024, Katherine was awarded ‘Author of the Year’ and ‘Children’s Fiction Book of the Year’ at the British Book Awards.

Further books include the critically acclaimed SUPER-INFINITE, winner of the highly prestigious Baillie Gifford Prize, and Sunday Times Bestsellers THE GOLDEN MOLE and WHY YOU SHOULD READ CHILDREN’S BOOKS, EVEN THOUGH YOU ARE SO OLD AND WISE.

Katherine’s work has seen her shortlisted for Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year, and awarded the Costa Children’s Book Award, Blue Peter Book Award, Waterstones Book of the Year, and the Waterstones Children’s Book Prize, amongst others. As a journalist, she contributes regularly to The London Review of Books, The Guardian and The Times. Her work as a presenter for television and radio includes ABDUCTED for the BBC and THE LION, THE WITCH AND THE WONDER for BBC Radio 4.

As a screenwriter, Katherine is currently in development on several feature projects, including with Working Title, Heyday Films and StudioCanal.

In 2023, she established her production company Impossible Films, through which she develops film, TV and theatre projects based on her own works. Katherine is adapting for the screen Eva Ibbotson's acclaimed children's classic ONE DOG AND HIS BOY, with Open Book Productions and Impossible Films.

She was the youngest ever female fellow of All Souls College, Oxford. She currently serves as a fellow of St Catherine’s College, Oxford.