Katrina Nannestad

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  • Bibliography:
    26 Books (5 Series)
  • First Book:
    November 2015
  • Latest Book:
    November 2024
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Full Series List in Order

The Girl, the Dog and the Writer

1 - The Girl, the Dog and the Writer in Rome (Nov-2017)
2 - The Girl, the Dog and the Writer in Provence (Oct-2018)
3 - The Girl, the Dog and the Writer in Lucerne (Oct-2019)

Lottie Perkins

1 - Lottie Perkins, Movie Star (May-2018)
2 - Lottie Perkins, Ballerina (May-2018)
3 - Lottie Perkins, Pop Singer (Jan-2020)
4 - Lottie Perkins, Fashion Designer (Jan-2020)

Olive of Groves

1 - Olive of Groves (Nov-2015)
2 - Olive of Groves and the Great Slurp of Time (May-2016)
3 - Olive of Groves and the Right Royal Romp (Oct-2016)

Red Dirt Diaries

1 - Red Dirt Diaries (Oct-2017)
2 - Blue's News (Oct-2017)
3 - Blue About Love (Oct-2017)

The Travelling Bookshop

1 - Mim and the Baffling Bully (Aug-2021)
2 - Mim and the Woeful Wedding (Mar-2022)
3 - Mim and the Anxious Artist (Aug-2022)
4 - Mim and the Disastrous Dog Show (Mar-2023)

Book List in Order: 26 titles

  • Olive of Groves

    Olive of Groves - 1

    Little girls who adore a boarding school romp, who love humorous, snappy, sharp heroines, have a penchant for scrapes or who have ever dreamt of running off to join the circus will fall in love with Olive of Groves. Ages: 8+ Olive lives with her bel...

  • When Mischief Came to Town

    In the tradition of ANNE OF GREEN GABLES and PIPPI LONGSTOCKING comes a heart-warming novel about love, family, grief, joy and the power of laughter and imagination. When Inge Maria arrives on the tiny island of Bornholm in Denmark to live with he...

  • Olive of Groves and the Great Slurp of Time

    Olive of Groves - 2

    'Exciting, imaginative, charming and very, very funny' - Judith Rossell, award-winning author of WITHERING-BY-SEA on OLIVE OF GROVES

    'Oh deary, deary me!' Mrs Groves cried. 'It really is! Right here! On the front porch to my esteemed B...

  • Olive of Groves and the Right Royal Romp

    Olive of Groves - 3

    The third adventure in this incomparably witty and charming series from award-winning author Katrina Nannestad

    How absolutely splendid! Dust the doorknobs. Polish the silver. Roll out the red carpet. The Queen is coming to Mrs Groves' Boar...

  • Blue About Love

    Red Dirt Diaries - 3

    Award-winning Australian author Katrina Nannestad's much-loved RED DIRT DIARIES, now with amazing new covers! Ages: 8-12 I'm going to be a bridesmaid. Mat, Lynette and me. Long, pink shiny dresses and flowers in our hair. Leading Miss McKenzie down t...

  • Blue's News

    Red Dirt Diaries - 2

    Award-winning Australian author Katrina Nannestad's much-loved RED DIRT DIARIES, now with amazing new covers! Ages: 8-12 Blue Weston is on a mission! ∠-- She's starting Hardbake Plains' first ever newspaper with Mat and Ben ∠-- She's determined...

  • Red Dirt Diaries

    Red Dirt Diaries - 1

    Award-winning Australian author Katrina Nannestad's much-loved RED DIRT DIARIES, now with amazing new covers! Ages: 8-12 Blue Weston's life is spiralling out of control. Her parents are sending her to boarding school next year. Her mad twin brothers ...

  • The Girl, the Dog and the Writer in Rome

    The Girl, the Dog and the Writer - 1

    He's the world's vaguest novelist. She's a shy and unusual child. Together, they're travelling the world, one book a time.

    'QUITE SIMPLY THE BEST SORT OF READING PLEASURE FROM THE FIRST PAGE TO THE LAST'

    -- Raven's Parlour Bookstore

  • Lottie Perkins, Ballerina

    Lottie Perkins - 2

    The junior series launch of the year! Emerging readers will fall in love with this adorable and collectable new series from award-winning Australian author Katrina Nannestad. Ages 5+I'm wearing a glittering tutu and a sparkling tiara.I pirouette. Thr...



  • Lottie Perkins, Movie Star

    Lottie Perkins - 1

    The junior series launch of the year! Emerging readers will fall in love with this adorable and collectable new series from award-winning Australian author Katrina Nannestad. Ages 5+'Lights! Camera! Action!'That's my cue.'Harold,' I sigh. 'I think I'...

  • The Girl, the Dog and the Writer in Provence

    The Girl, the Dog and the Writer - 2

    'FANS OF ... JACQUELINE HARVEY WILL LOVE THIS BOOK' -- Kids' Book Review on The Girl, the Dog and the Writer in RomeWhen Freja and Tobias arrive in Claviers, Provence, it feels like home. The hilltop village is surrounded by olive groves, lavender fi...

  • Goldfields

    An aging woman. An awareness of time. Uncovering a family history. A sad farewell. A foreign stranger. A crazy cat. Country roads and kangaroos. A hundred year old murder mystery. Finding a sense of place. A good companion. An unexpected stranger....

  • The Girl, the Dog and the Writer in Lucerne

    The Girl, the Dog and the Writer - 3

    'AN ABSOLUTE DELIGHT TO READ, WITH LOTS OF CHARMING AND QUIRKY CHARACTERS' -- Better ReadingFreja and her mother, Clementine, are reunited at last. Tobias and Vivi are in love. And Lucerne, their new home, is a paradise of snowy alps, sapphire lakes,...

  • Lottie Perkins, Fashion Designer

    Lottie Perkins - 4

    'SO MUCH TO LOVE!'- Total Girl Our class is learning the three times table.But I'm not listening. I'm designing a dress.A fabulous dress for Mrs Dawson. My name's Charlotte, but you can call me Lottie. I'm a fashion designer. At least, that's my thin...

  • Lottie Perkins, Pop Singer

    Lottie Perkins - 3

    'SO MUCH TO LOVE!'- Total Girl The crowd cheers. Lights flash.I sing into the microphone at the top of my lungs.I'm rocking this song! My name's Charlotte, but you can call me Lottie. I'm a pop singer. At least, that's my thing this week. Charlotte P...

  • We Are Wolves

    This “hauntingly atmospheric†(Kirkus Reviews, starred review), heart-stopping middle grade novel follows three of the Wolfskinder, German children left to fend for themselves in the final days of World War II, as they struggle to hold onto thems...

  • Lottie Perkins

    Charlotte Perkins is seven years old and can't wait to grow up – if only she could decide what she wanted to be! Luckily, no dream is too big for little Lottie Perkins! Emerging listeners will fall in love with this adorable and collectable new...

  • Mim and the Baffling Bully

    The Travelling Bookshop - 1

    The right book might just change your life ...Mim Cohen roams the world in a travelling bookshop, with her dad and brother and a horse called Flossy. Flossy leads them where she will, to the place where they're needed most ... the place where the per...

  • The Girl Who Brought Mischief



  • Rabbit, Soldier, Angel, Thief

    Award-winning writer Katrina Nannestad transports us to Russia and the Great Patriotic War and into the life of Sasha, a soldier at only six years old ...Wood splinters and Mama screams and the nearest soldier seizes her roughly by the arms. My siste...

  • Mim and the Woeful Wedding

    The Travelling Bookshop - 2

    The right book might just change your life ...Mim Cohen roams the world in a travelling bookshop, with her dad and brother and a horse called Flossy. Flossy leads them where she will, to the place where they're needed most ... the place where the per...

  • Mim and the Anxious Artist

    The Travelling Bookshop - 3

    The right book might just change your life ...Mim Cohen roams the world in a travelling bookshop, with her dad and brother and a horse called Flossy. Flossy leads them where she will, to the place where they're needed most ... the place where the per...

  • Waiting for the Storks

    The powerful new novel from master storyteller Katrina Nannestad.I don't want to remember the truck, or the night I was taken, or the family I left behind. I am not a sad Polish girl. I am a good and happy German girl.I am. I am. I am.It's the Second...

  • Mim and the Disastrous Dog Show

    The Travelling Bookshop - 4

    The right book might just change your life ...Mim Cohen roams the world in a travelling bookshop, with her dad and brother and a horse called Flossy. Flossy leads them where she will, to the place where they're needed most ... the place where the per...

  • Silver Linings

    A new heartwarming novel set in 1950s Australia from bestselling author Katrina NannestadNettie Sweeney has a dad, three big sisters, a farm full of cows and a cat called Mittens. But it's not enough. She longs for a mother. One with a gentle touch a...

  • All the Beautiful Things

    A new heart-wrenching, impeccably researched historical novel for middle-grade readersThe Nazis want everyone to be the same. If you're different, you don't belong.Not belonging is dangerous ...Anna's little sister, Eva, is frail and needs time to le...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Katrina Nannestad has published 26 books.

Katrina Nannestad does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, All the Beautiful Things, was published in November 2024.

The first book by Katrina Nannestad, Olive of Groves, was published in November 2015.

Yes. Katrina Nannestad has 5 series.
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