Emma Carroll is a bestselling middle-grade author, the “Queen of historical fiction” according to BookTrust, and a favourite with children, teachers and critics.
Emma started out as a secondary school teacher but has also worked as a news reporter, an avocado picker and the person who punches holes into filofax paper and is now a full-time writer.
Several books by Emma Carroll have been nominated for, and won, numerous awards including the Books Are My Bag Readers’ Award, Branford Boase, CILIP Carnegie Medal and the Waterstones Children’s Book Prize.
Most of Emma Carroll’s books are gripping historical adventures and mysteries for readers 9+. The settings of her books range from World War Two evacuations (
Letters from the Lighthouse) to a Victorian circus
(The Girl Who Walked on Air).
In 2021 she released two new books:
The Week at World’s End - a thriller set in 1960s Britain - and
A Night at Frost Fair - a Christmas story with glorious colour illustrations by Sam Usher.