Holly Smale

Holly Smale is the bestselling author of the award-winning Geek Girl series.

Geek Girl swaps the idealised fairytale princess for a perfectly imperfect girl who picks her own adventure, finds her courage and develops her own sense of self.

The fifth book in the series, Head Over Heels, follows the misadventures of Harriet Manners and is out in February 2016.

Geek Girl was the highest-selling young-adult fiction title in the UK in 2013, was shortlisted for the Roald Dahl Funny Prize and the Branford Boase award, nominated for the Queen of Teen award and won the teen and young-adult category of the Waterstones Children's Book Prize.

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For ages 8+