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, which is now a BAFTA-winning and Emmy-nominated BBC drama. She has been nominated for the Carnegie Medal four times, shortlisted twice for the LOLLIES, as well as the Roald Dahl Funny Prize, the Little Rebels Award, and the Telegraph Sports Book of the Year. She has been a World Book Day author, a Richard and Judy Book Club pick, an Empathy Lab pick, a Blue Peter Book of the Month and a Radio 4 Book of the Year. Her books for older readers investigate identity and for younger readers celebrate diversity and ‘not fitting in’. 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.