Ali Sparkes grew up in Southampton and despite some exciting months in London and even more exciting months in Lowestoft (where she really experienced life on the edge), still lives in Southampton today, with her husband and two sons. She has worked as a singer, journalist, broadcaster, magazine editor and the spangle-clad assistant to a juggling unicyclist (frighteningly, there is photographic proof). Ali currently has twenty-two children's fiction titles published by Oxford University Press including her 'Shapeshifter' series, her standalone novels Dark Summer and Wishful Thinking , and her heart-stopping new adventure series about a group of teenagers with special powers, 'Unleashed'.

A must-read . . . I know now that they mean by a plot that is toe-curlingly good.

Ali Sparkes grew up in Southampton and despite some exciting months in London and even more exciting months in Lowestoft (where she really experienced life on the edge), still lives in Southampton today, with her husband and two sons. She has worked as a singer, journalist, broadcaster, magazine editor and the spangle-clad assistant to a juggling unicyclist (frighteningly, there is photographic proof). Ali currently has twenty-two children's fiction titles published by Oxford University Press including her 'Shapeshifter' series, her standalone novels Dark Summer and Wishful Thinking , and her heart-stopping new adventure series about a group of teenagers with special powers, 'Unleashed'.

A must-read . . . I know now that they mean by a plot that is toe-curlingly good.