The Houdini Inheritance

Emma Carroll has worked as an English teacher, a news reporter, an avocado picker, the person who punches holes into filofax paper and is now a bestselling and award-winning British children's author. Carroll has won and been nominated for numerous awards, including the Books Are My Bag Readers' Award, the Branford Boase Award, the CILIP Carnegie Medal and others. Carroll is the author of the highly acclaimed Frost Hollow Hall, which won the North East Book Award, and The Girl Who Walked on Air, which was nominated for the Carnegie Medal. Her title The Somerset Tsunami was selected by indie booksellers as their Book of the Month and was The Times Children's Book of the Week.

A Bachelor of Performing Arts graduate, Elizabeth has a vast background in classical theatre, improvisation and devised performance. After completing several successful seasons with The Australian Shakespeare Company and performing in/co-devising the Green Room Award nominated production of The Nose, she has recently expanded into film work, appearing in corporate adverts, music videos and short films, both independent and professional.