L. D. Lapinski

L. D. Lapinski is the best-selling author of the ARTEZANS trilogy, JAMIE, the Stepfather Christmas duology, and The Strangeworlds Travel Agency series, including Adventure in the Floating Mountains, which was a 2023 World Book Day title. JAMIE was nominated for the 2024 Yoto Carnegie Medal for Writing, and selected as part of the Empathy Lab UK 'Read For Empathy' 2024 collection. DOCTOR WHO: Charles Darwin and the Silurian Survival, L. D's first book for the BBC's Doctor Who, was published in November 2024. The first volume of L. D's debut YA graphic novel KICKFLIP, created with illustrator Logan Hanning, will be published in June.

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L. D's first book for adults, SOME BODY LIKE ME, was published by Gollancz in April 2025. In Spring, they were named an Independent Bookshop Week Ambassador.

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Together, L. D.'s books are published around the world in sixteen 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.

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L. D. Lapinski lives in Inverness 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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Twitter / Instagram / TikTok: @ldlapinski