Sam Angus is a bestselling and award-winning author of historical adventure stories. Her novels, required reading for schools across the United Kingdom, deal lightly with some of the bleakest moments of British and Colonial history. She lives in London and Exmoor and has written five novels which are translated into Chinese, Italian, Welsh and Portuguese. She is published in the UK by Macmillan and in the US by Feiwel & Friends. She is currently collaborating on a script for a film based on her novel Soldier Dog and writing short stories. 

Sam Angus's books have been longlisted and shortlisted several times for the CILIP Carnegie Medal. Soldier Dog was longlisted in 2013, Captain in 2015 and The House on Hummingbird Island for 2017. She has also won or been shortlisted for many local and national awards including the North East Book Award, The Sussex Coast Amazing Book Award, the East Lothian Libraries' Lennox Author Award, the James Reckitt Children's Book Award, the Hillingdon Book of the Year, and the Bath and Somerset Centurion Award, amongst others, the Cheshire Book Award.  

Sam Angus was born in Italy, grew up in France, and spent much of her childhood moving from home to home and country to country, but most of her early life was spent in Franco's Spain. She went to more than ten different schools and was the naughtiest girl in all of them. She read English at Trinity College Cambridge, where she secretly kept a dog in her college rooms. After Cambridge she studied at Central St Martins to study fashion. She taught English Literature for many years before becoming a full-time writer. She lives between London and Exmoor and has five children, several horses and two dogs.