Joanna Nadin is a former broadcast journalist and special adviser to the Prime Minister. Since leaving politics, she’s written more than a hundred books for children, teenagers and adults, including the Sunday Times bestselling The Worst Class in the World series, and the Carnegie-nominated Joe All Alone. When she isn’t writing, she’s teaching others to write as an Associate Professor in Creative Writing at University of Bristol, and for Arvon and John Yorke Story. She has a PhD in young adult literature and lives in Bath.