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Joanna Nadin

(b.1970)
Great-great-great-granddaughter of William Makepeace Thackeray

Joanna Nadin has had a varied and interesting career including writing John Prescott's parliamentary agony column??? and working as a Special Advisor to the Prime Minister. She left Downing Street in 2005 and is now a freelance government scriptwriter and writer. Joanna has previously written children's titles for Walker Books. Inspiration for her teen books came from her own tragically normal life in Saffron Walden. She now lives in Bath with her husband and daughter Amelia.

Genres: Literary Fiction, Children's Fiction

New and upcoming books

January 2025

Disaster Diaries
(Worst Birthday Ever)

Series

Maisie Morris
1. Maisie Morris and the Awful Arkwrights (2003)
2. Maisie Morris and the Whopping Lies (2005)

Rachel Riley
   1. My So-Called Life (2007)
   2. The Life of Riley (2008)
   3. The Meaning of Life (2008)
   4. My (Not So) Simple Life (2009)
   5. Back to Life (2009)
   6. The Facts of Life (2010)
   7. The Time of My Life (2014)

Billy Grimshaw
1. Spies, Dad, Big Lauren and Me (2010)
2. The Money, Stan, Big Lauren and Me (2012)

Penny Dreadful
   1. Penny Dreadful is a Magnet for Disaster (2011)
   2. Penny Dreadful is a Complete Catastrophe (2011)
   3. Penny Dreadful Causes a Kerfuffle (2012)
   4. Penny Dreadful Cooks Up a Calamity (2012)
   5. Penny Dreadful is a Record Breaker (2013)
   6. Penny Dreadful is Incredibly Contagious (2013)
   7. Penny Dreadful and the Horrible Hoo Hah (2013)
     aka Penny Dreadful and the Horrible Hoopla

Cosmo B. Henderson
Could Do Better (2011)
What ARE You Doing? (2011)

Billy Wild
The Incredible Billy Wild (2017)

Worst Class in the World
   1. The Worst Class in the World (2020)
   2. The Worst Class in the World Gets Worse (2021)
   3. The Worst Class in the World Dares You! (2022)
   The Worst Class in the World in Danger! (2022)
   4. The Worst Class in the World Goes Wild! (2022)
   The Worst Class in the World Total Mayhem (2023)
   The Worst Class in the World Animal Uproar (2024)

Worst Birthday Ever
Disaster Diaries (2025)

Novels

   Solomon Smee Versus the Monkeys (2004)
   Jake Jellicoe and the Dread Pirate Redbeard (2006)
   Candy Plastic (2007)
   Wonderland (2009)
   Buttercup Mash (2011)
   Paradise (2011)
   Eden (2014)
   Undertow (2014)
   Joe All Alone (2015)
   White Lies, Black Dare (2016)
   Everybody Hurts (2017) (with Anthony McGowan)
   The Queen of Bloody Everything (2018)
   Where Do You Go, Birdy Jones? (2018)
   The Talk of Pram Town (2021)
   No Man's Land (2021)
   The Double Life of Daisy Hemmings (2022)
   A Calamity of Mannerings (2023)
   My Teeth in Your Heart (2024)

Series contributed to

Project X
   Jake Jones v Vlad the Bad (2009)
   The Witness (2009)
   The End of Time (2009)
   The Secret Diary of Danny Grower (2009)
   The Chocolate Finger (2014)

Awesomely Austen - Illustrated and Retold
4. Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility (2020)

World Book Day 2022
The Worst Class in the World in Danger! (2022)

Picture Books show

Chapter Books show

Books containing stories by Joanna Nadin

And Then He Kissed Me (2013)
Stories of love, heartbreak and other unnatural disasters

Queen of Teen (2010)
edited by
Meg Cabot

Joanna Nadin recommends

The Square of Sevens (2023)
Laura Shepherd-Robinson
"My favourite Laura Shepherd-Robinson novel yet. Fortune telling, Cornwall and Bath. What's not to love? Completely compelling and clever, of course. And in Red, a heroine I wanted to spend days with."

Cuckoo in the Nest (2023)
Fran Hill
"Totally evokes a seventies childhood."

The Rescue of Ravenwood (2023)
Natasha Farrant
"Gripping, and important - so lightly and deftly done. I found myself waking up and wanting desperately to go and live in Ravenwood - I think all readers will."

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