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 4 million copies worldwide.

Her most recent novels THE POISONED KING and IMPOSSIBLE CREATURES were both instant Sunday Times Bestsellers and #1 NYT Bestsellers. IMPOSSIBLE CREATURES received universal critical acclaim and won the 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. Her other award-winning novels for children include ROOFTOPPERS, THE WOLF WILDER and THE EXPLORER.

Katherine’s further books include the critically acclaimed and bestselling SUPER-INFINITE, a biography of the metaphysical poet John Donne, which won the highly prestigious Baillie Gifford Prize for best non-fiction nook of the year. Her book about the extinction crisis THE GOLDEN MOLE and her book WHY YOU SHOULD READ CHILDREN’S BOOKS, EVEN THOUGH YOU ARE SO OLD AND WISE were also Sunday Times Bestsellers.

Katherine’s work has been 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 and the upcoming A CARNIVAL OF ANIMALS which will broadcast in 20 episodes across October 2025 on BBC Radio 4.

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 a Fellow of St Catherine’s College, Oxford and Quondam Fellow of Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford.