Biography
Kirsty was born in Essex and grew up in Hampshire. She has had a wide variety of jobs including bookselling, railway re-signalling, picking stones off conveyer belts, putting lids on perfume bottles and teaching Pilates. Kirsty writes children’s stories in a range of genres including science fiction, horror, dystopia and fairy tale. Her books have been selected by BookTrust for their Great Books Guides, shortlisted in a number of national awards and nominated for the Carnegie Medal.
The Strange Disappearance of Imogen Good
The author of former Waterstones Children’s Book Prize nominee The Middler weaves an engrossing gothic mystery about a hidden garden, an old fairytale and a missing child.
A hidden garden. An ancient fairy tale. A missing child. This is an addictive mystery with crossing narratives that’s impossible to put down.
Fran doesn’t want to stay with her aunt and uncle and her annoying cousin, Imogen. Imogen is rude and unfriendly and, it turns out, missing… But her parents don’t seem to know who Fran means – don’t be silly, we don’t have a daughter, you know that. So it’s up to Fran, and Imogen’s best friend, Bex, to find out what’s happened to her.
Except Bex doesn’t know who Imogen is either. All Fran knows is that it’s got something to do with the hidden garden at Stillness Hall and the twelve statues that belong there. Could an old fairy tale, a story of enchantment and death, hold the answers?
Publications
Selected Publications
Princess Minna loves to sort out mix-ups and mishaps in the kingdom! In this full-colour, illustrated chapter book, join her on her hilarious quest to be the best princess OF ALL!
A cheerful, colourful story about a chocolate egg hunt with a difference! And the perfect present for the Easter bunny to deliver!
Princess Minna lives in Castle Tall-Towers with the King and Queen, Raymond the Wizard and her best dragon friend, Lorenzo. There are often mix-ups and mishaps in the kingdom and Princess Minna loves to sort them out!
Lorenzo the dragon has set up a brilliant egg hunt for the townspeople, with eggs of all shapes and sizes and colours and patterns. But he’s accidentally hidden his mum’s special dragon egg too and he’s going to be in big trouble! Can Princess Minna find the special egg before someone eats it? Of course she can…
Full of colourful illustrations, these short, funny stories are perfect for readers just moving on from picture books and visual readers.
