Books By Katherine Woodfine - Author

Katherine Woodfine was born in Lancashire in 1983, and studied English at Bristol University. She lives in London and since 2009 has worked for the literature charity Booktrust, where she is a children's book specialist and project manager of the Children's Laureate, working with leading children's authors such as Malorie Blackman, Julia Donaldson and Anthony Browne.

Katherine is the bestselling author of the Sinclair’s Mysteries and the Taylor & Rose Secret Agents series. Her first novel, The Clockwork Sparrow, was shortlisted for the Waterstones Children’s Book Prize in 2015. For Barrington Stoke, her Heroines from History Little Gems series includes Elisabeth and the Box of Colours, Sophie Takes to the Sky and Rose’s Dress of Dreams which was heralded by the Guardian as “a pink-clad paean to design and dressmaking as an artistic rebellion”