Katherine Rundell - Author

Katherine Rundell was born in 1987 and grew up in Africa and Europe. In 2008 she was elected a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford. Her first book,The Girl Savage, was born of her love of Zimbabwe and her own childhood there; her second, Rooftoppers,was inspired by summers working in Paris and by night-time trespassing on the rooftops of All Souls. She is currently working on her doctorate alongisde an adult novel.

Featured Books, with extracts, by Katherine Rundell

The Explorer
Katherine Rundell - illustrated by Hannah Horn
Winner of The Costa Children's Book Award 2017 After crashing hundreds of miles from civilisation in the Amazon rainforest, Fred, Con, Lila and Max are utterly alone and in grave danger. They have no food, no water and no chance...
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Format: Paperback | Released 02/01/2018 Info Extract Buy

One Christmas Wish
Katherine Rundell - illustrated by Emily Sutton
Katherine Rundell, author of Rooftoppers, Wolf Wilder and The Explorer, fills her first picturebook with the wit, verve and touches of whimsy that distinguish her novels, as well as with a series of typically striking images. Theo is spending a...
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Format: Hardback | Released 05/10/2017 Info Extract Buy

The Wolf Wilder
Katherine Rundell - illustrated by Gelrev Ongbico
Shortlisted for the UKLA 2017 Book Award | One of our Books of the Year 2016 | September 2016 Book of the Month Wolves, wildness and freedom are at the heart of this thrilling story. Wolf wilders are employed to...
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Format: Paperback | Released 08/09/2016 Info Extract Buy

The Wolf Wilder
Katherine Rundell
One of our Books of the Year 2015 - September 2015 Book of the Month Wolves, wildness and freedom are at the heart of this thrilling story. Wolf wilders are employed to reintroduce wolves unfortunate enough to be brought up...
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Format: Hardback | Released 10/09/2015 Info Extract Buy

Rooftoppers
Katherine Rundell
Overall Winner and Winner of Fiction for 5-12's category 2014 Waterstones Children's Book Prize Winner of the Blue Peter Book of the Year 2014 - Best Story Shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal 2014 Abandoned as a baby, Sophie's...
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Format: Paperback | Released 07/03/2013 Info Extract Buy

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