Dr Sanjida O’Connell has had four non-fiction books, and eight novels published. She writes psychological thrillers as Sanjida Kay. Bone by Bone, The Stolen Child, My Mother’s Secret and One Year Later were published by Corvus Books; The Divide was published in The Book of Bristol by Comma Press; The Beautiful Game in The Perfect Crime, was published by Harper Collins; Grace’s Cave was released on BBC Radio 4 and  Meat will be out shortly in The Monster, Capital (Comma Press).

Sanjida has been shortlisted for the BBC Asia Awards, the Betty Trask Award, the Daily Telegraph Science Writer’s Award, Asian Woman of the Year, highly commended for BBC Wildlife Magazine’s Award for Nature Writing, long listed for a Crime Writers’ Association Steel Dagger, shortlisted for a CWA Short Story Dagger and has won a CWA Short Story Dagger.

Sanjida is currently writing a nature memoir, Wilderness: In Search of Belonging, about growing up dual heritage in rural Britain, and rewilding a patch of land in Somerset.