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Tamsin Winter author page
Tamsin Winter biography
Tamsin Winter is a UK children’s author whose fiction is aimed at readers aged 10–14. She studied English Literature and Creative Writing at university and worked for many years as a secondary-school English teacher.
Winter’s debut novel, Being Miss Nobody (Usborne, 2017), follows an eleven-year-old who starts an anonymous blog to speak up about bullying. Her second novel, Jemima Small Versus the Universe (Usborne, 2019), addresses body image and self-confidence. Subsequent titles include Girl (In Real Life) (Usborne, 2021), Bad Influence (Usborne, 2023) and I Dare You (Usborne, 2025).
Her work has received multiple awards and shortlistings from UK reading programmes. Being Miss Nobody won the Awesome Book Award and other regional prizes. Jemima Small Versus the Universe was shortlisted for the Waterstones Children’s Book Prize and nominated for the Carnegie Medal. Bad Influence was selected as a YA Book of the Month by a national newspaper.
I Dare You was published in 2025.
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Biography writer: Joanna Nance-Phillips
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I Dare You by Tamsin Winter
I Dare You is a gripping, contemporary cautionary tale that today’s teens will find both thrilling and uncomfortably familiar. The story is a tense, escalating journey as Winter builds tension from the very first page.
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Bestselling books by Tamsin Winter
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