Jenny Nimmo is the author of the worldwide bestselling Charlie Bone series. As well as writing for children, she has been an actor, researcher, floor-manager and script editor for children's television. Her first book The Bronze Trumpeter was published in 1975. The Snow Spider won the Tir na N'Og award and the Smarties Grand Prix and was adapted into a CBBC series in 2020. Jenny Nimmo was born in Windsor, Berkshire and now lives in Wales with her bi-lingual family.