Joanna Nadin

Joanna Nadin is an English author of children's and teen fiction best known for the Rachel Riley series of novels^[1][2] Based on Nadin's own childhood, the series follows the comedic narration of a 13-year-old girl growing up in Saffron Walden, Essex.^[3]

She is a winner of the Lancashire Fantastic Book award, Blue Peter 'Book of the Month' and Radio 4 Open Book 'Book of the Year', has twice been shortlisted for the Queen of Teen award, and Spies, Dad, Big Lauren and Me was selected for the Richard and Judy Book Club. In 2011, Penny Dreadful is a Magnet for Disaster was shortlisted for the Roald Dahl Funny prize.

Nadin previously worked as a policy writer for the Labour Party (UK).^[4] In 2001, she became a special adviser to Tony Blair. ^[3][5] She continues to freelance as a speechwriter and editor.

In 2016 Nadin created controversy when a primary-aged reader wrote to her, pointing out a grammatical mistake in her book "The Stepmonster".^[6]

Bibliography

Young adult fiction

• Paradise, London: Walker, (2011)
• Wonderland, London: Walker, (2009)

10+ fiction

• Buttercup Mash, Oxford: Oxford University Press, (2011)
• Spies, Dad, Big Lauren and Me, London: Piccadilly Press, (2011)
• The money,Stan,big Lauren and me",

Rachel Riley series

• My So-called Life: the Tragically Normal Diary of Rachel Riley, Oxford: Oxford University Press, (2007), ISBN 978-0-19-275526-1
• The Life of Riley: My Utterly Hopeless Search for the One, Oxford: Oxford University Press, (2008), ISBN 978-0-19-275527-8
• The Meaning of Life, Oxford: Oxford University Press, (2008), ISBN 978-0-19-272833-3
• My Double Life, Oxford: Oxford University Press, (2009), ISBN 978-0-19-272921-7
• My (not so) Simple Life, Oxford University Press, (2009), ISBN 978-0-19-272834-0
• Back to Life: Rachel Riley (sort of) seizes the day, Oxford University Press, (2009), ISBN 978-0-19-272922-4
• The Facts of Life: Rachel Riley (almost) wakes up and smells the coffee, Oxford: Oxford University Press, (2010), ISBN 978-0-19-272923-1
• The Time of My Life: The Last Hurrah, Oxford: Oxford University Press, (2013), ISBN 978-0-19-279278-5

Illustrated children's stories

• Penny Dreadful is a Magnet for Disaster, illustrated by Jess Mikhail, London: Usborne (2011)
• Penny Dreadful is a Complete Catastrophe, illustrated by Jess Mikhail, London: Usborne (2011)
• Maisie Morris and the awful Arkwrights, illustrated by Arthur Robins, London: Walker, (2003), ISBN 0-7445-9091-4
• Solomon Smee Versus The Monkeys , illustrated by Arthur Robins, London: Walker, (2004)
• Maisie Morris and the whopping lies, illustrated by Arthur Robins, London: Walker, (2005) ISBN 978-1-84428-950-9
• Jake Jellicoe and the Dread Pirate Redbeard, illustrated by David Roberts, London: Walker, (2006) ISBN 0-7445-5786-0
• Candy Plastic, illustrated by Sue Mason, London: Walker, (2007), ISBN 978-1-4063-0422-0

Books for schools

• Rumpelstiltskin, Oxford: Oxford University Press, (2011)
• Aladdin, Oxford: Oxford University Press, (2011)
• Cosmo B. Henderson: What ARE You Doing?, Oxford: Pearson, (2011)
• Cosmo B. Henderson: Could Do Better, Oxford: Pearson, (2011)
• The Whole Truth, Oxford: Pearson, (2010)
• The Secret Diary of Danny Grower, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010
• The End of Time, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010
• Jake Jones v Vlad the Bad, illustrated by Jonathan Edwards, Oxford: Oxford University Press, (2009), ISBN 978-0-19-847204-9
• The Witness, illustrated by Jonathan Edwards, Oxford: Oxford University Press, (2009), ISBN 978-0-19-847236-0

References

1. "Interview: Joanna Nadin", Chicklish, retrieved 17-05-2009
2. Stephanie Merritt, "The Life of Riley", The Guardian, 15 July 2007
3. Caroline Horn, "Joanna Nadin: My so-called début", Bookseller.com, May 4, 2007
4. "The Labour Party's experts in spin are a fast-growing - and increasingly costly - breed", The Independent, 17 February 2002
5. "Special Advisers: Downing Street 2002", Red Star Research, red-star-research.org.uk, retrieved 18-05-2009
6. https://www.tes.com/news/school-news/breaking-news/you-cant-start-a-sentence-a-conjunction-primary-pupil-writes

External links

• Joanna Nadin Books, listed in the World Catalog at worldcat.org, retrieved 18-05-2009