Rachel Hamilton studied at Oxford and Cambridge and has put her education to good use working in an ad agency, a comprehensive school, a building site and a men's prison. Her interests are books, films, stand-up comedy and cake, and she loves to make people laugh, especially when it's intentional rather than accidental.
Her debut novel, The Case of the Exploding Loo, won the Worcestershire Awesomest Book Award and was runner up in the Emirates Festival of Literature First Fiction Award, as well as being nominated for the Leeds Book Awards and the Redbridge Children's Book Awards.