Vashti Hardy’s middle-grade fantasy adventures are published across the world in many languages, including the Brightstorm Chronicles, Harley Hitch and Griffin Gate series. Wildspark won the Blue Peter Book Award, and bestseller Brightstorm was the Independent Booksellers’ Book of the Season and was shortlisted for the Waterstones Children’s Book Prize and Books are My Bag Awards, among others. She lives near Brighton, England.