L. D. Lapinski

L. D. Lapinski is the best-selling author of the ARTEZANS trilogy, JAMIE, the Stepfather Christmas duology, graphic novel KICKFLIP with Logan Hanning, and The Strangeworlds Travel Agency series, including Adventure in the Floating Mountains, which was a 2023 World Book Day title.

JAMIE and KICKFLIP have both been nominated for the Yoto Carnegie Medal, and both have been selected as part of the Empathy Lab UK 'Read For Empathy' collection. DOCTOR WHO: Charles Darwin and the Silurian Survival, L. D's first book for the BBC's Doctor Who, was published in 2024. 

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L. D's first book for adults, SOME BODY LIKE ME, was published by Gollancz in 2025, and named a Best Fiction Book of 2025 by the New Scientist. 

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Together, L. D.'s books are published around the world in eighteen languages. Each book in the Strangeworlds trilogy, and the standalone novel JAMIE have been awarded a Kirkus star - one of the most coveted designations in the book industry, marking books of exceptional merit. In December 2024 they were honoured with the Outstanding Alumni Award from Nottingham Trent University. In 2025, L.D. was named an Independent Bookshop Week Ambassador.

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L. D. Lapinski lives on the Black Isle, in the Scottish Highlands, with their family, a lot of books, and two cats called Hector and Rory. L. D. first wrote a book aged seven; it was made of lined paper and sellotape, and it was about a frog who owned an aeroplane. When L. D. grows up, they want to be a free-range guinea pig farmer.

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L. D.'s literary agent is Claire Wilson at Rogers, Coleridge and White Literary Agency. For Film / TV, contact Emily Hayward Whitlock.

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