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Narinder Dhami biography

Narinder Dhami is a British children’s author and former primary school teacher. Born and brought up in Wolverhampton, she studied at the University of Birmingham before teaching in primary schools for around ten years. She began writing full-time after winning several short story competitions.

Dhami is the author of the Bindi Babes series, which follows sisters Amber, Geena and Jazz. The sequence begins with Bindi Babes and continues with Bollywood Babes, Bhangra Babes and Superstar Babes, alongside the related books Dani’s Diary and Sunita’s Secret. Bindi Babes was reissued by Puffin in 2024.

She wrote the official novelisation of Gurinder Chadha’s film Bend It Like Beckham, published by Hodder Children’s Books in 2002. Dhami has also contributed books to the Rainbow Magic series under the shared pseudonym Daisy Meadows and created The Beautiful Game, a fiction series about a girls’ football team.

Her other children’s books include Animal Crackers, Thirteen Hours, A Tiger for Breakfast and The Barber’s Clever Wife. She has also contributed to Enid Blyton’s Malory Towers world, writing a story for New Class at Malory Towers and the novelisation Malory Towers: Darrell and Friends, based on the television adaptation. New Class at Malory Towers was published by Hodder Children’s Books in 2019.