Sarah Mussi is an award-winning author of children's and young adults' fiction. Her first novel, The Door of No Return, won the Glen Dimplex Children's Book Award and was shortlisted for the Branford Boase Award. Her second novel, The Last of the Warrior Kings, was shortlisted for the Lewisham Book Award, inspired a London Walk, and is used as a ... Read moretextbook in Lewisham schools. Her thriller, Siege, was nominated for the CILIP Carnegie Medal (2014) and won the BBUKYA award for contemporary YA fiction. Her thriller, Riot, won the Lancashire Book of the Year award and was longlisted for The Amazing Book Award. Her most recent novel, Bomb, was published in 2015 by Hodder Children's Books and featured in The Guardian's list of Best New Children's Books for 2015. Sarah was born and raised in the Cotswolds, attended Pate's Grammar School for Girls, and graduated with a BA in Fine Art from Winchester School of Art and an MA from the Royal College of Art. She spent over fifteen years in West Africa as a teacher and now teaches English in Lewisham, where she is also the current Chair of CWISL (Children's Writers and Illustrators in South London). Show Less