Joanna Nadin has written many stories for younger children including Solomon Smee Versus the Monkeys and Jake Jellicoe and the Dread Pirate Redbeard. Wonderland is her first novel for teenagers. Her past jobs include working as a theatre wardrobe assistant, an account manager for a juggling company, a radio journalist, a newsreader and, most recently, a political writer and advisor in government. Joanna, who is the great-great-great-granddaughter of author William Makepeace Thackeray, lives in Bath.