Kiran writes stories…

Kiran’s books include The Girl of Ink & Stars, which was the winner of the Waterstones Children’s Book Prize 2017; The Island at the End of Everything, which was shortlisted for the Costa Children’s Book Award 2017; and The Way Past Winter, which won the Blackwell’s Children’s Book of the Year Award 2018.

Her first YA novel, The Deathless Girls, a reimagining of the origin stories of the so-called ‘brides of Dracula’, was shortlisted for the YA Book Prize, and the Foyles Book of the Year 2019.

Her debut book for adults, The Mercies, previously titled Vardø, was subject to a 13-way auction and called ‘unquestionably the book of the 2018 London Book Fair’ by The Bookseller. The Mercies was published by Picador in February 2020, and debuted at number 1 on The Times Bestseller List, and number 5 on the Sunday Times Bestseller Chart. It won a Betty Trask Award and was named a NYT Most Notable Book of 2020. Her second novel for adults is The Dance Tree.

A Secret of Birds & Bone, her fourth MG novel, was published in October 2020, and was Blackwell’s Children’s Book of the Month. Julia and the Shark, and Leila and the Blue Fox, in collaboration with her husband Tom de Freston, have been shortlisted for numerous awards including the Waterstones Book of the Year, the UKLA Awards, and the Wainwright Prize. Julia and the Shark won the Waterstones Children’s Gift of the Year.

In the Shadow of the Wolf Queen, first in a major new trilogy named The Geomancer, will be published in August 2023.

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