Katherine Woodfine

A much-loved children’s author and former Waterstones bookseller, Katherine Woodfine published her first children’s book, The Clockwork Sparrow, in 2015. The novel was shortlisted for the Waterstones Children’s Book Prize and became the first in the historical children’s detective series the Sinclair Mysteries. Other novels in the series are The Jewelled Moth, The Painted Dragon and The Midnight Peacock. The heroines of the Sinclair Mysteries continue their adventures in Edwardian England in the new series Taylor & Rose Secret Agents, which launched in 2018 with Peril in Paris.