J16 The Good Thieves with Katherine Rundell

Age: 9+

Join award-winning author Katherine Rundell on an adventure that will take your imagination to the depths of the Amazon rainforest, the icy Russian steppes, climbing the rooftops of Paris and trapezing through 1920s New York City. Meet Vita, Silk, Arkady and Samuel – four children who will do anything to right a wrong – and become part of The Good Thieves troupe.

Katherine Rundell is the million copy best-selling author of five children’s novels and has won the Costa Children’s Book Award, the Blue Peter Book Award and the Waterstones Children’s Book Prize amongst many others. Katherine spent her childhood in Africa and Europe before taking her degree at the University of Oxford and becoming a Fellow of All Souls College. As well as writing, she studies Renaissance literature and occasionally goes climbing on the rooftops late at night.