Who’s been making the biggest noise since Philip Pullman, & is described by Jacqueline Wilson as ‘an ultra stylish writer with a true gift for imaginative storytelling’? Here’s a clue: she based her second book, Rooftoppers, on her real-life habit of prancing about on the roofs of Oxford colleges. (She doesn’t just write about adventures; she actually lives them.) The answer is Katherine Rundell: a young sensation whose lyrical writing sweeps you away on intense & far-flung adventures. The snowy Russian wilds. The Amazon jungle. The rooftops of Paris. Where would you like to begin? Three exquisite novels from one of the most exciting new writers around Katherine Rundell won the Waterstones Prize for her second book, Rooftoppers It also won the Blue Peter Award & was shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal “A writer with an utterly distinctive voice & a wild imagination” – Philip Pullman