About Clare Sambrook

Clare Sambrook's acclaimed debut novel, Hide & Seek, came out in more than a dozen languages in 2005, becoming a New York Times editor’s choice and a Daily Mail book club selection.

Short-listed for the YoungMinds Award (for books that illuminate children’s thinking), long-listed for the Prince Maurice Prize, Hide & Seek is a Canongate title.

In 2010 Clare won both the Paul Foot Award and the Bevins Prize for outstanding investigative journalism for her work exposing government attempts to mislead Parliament and the public about the forcible arrest and detention of asylum-seeking families. With six friends she co-founded the citizens’ campaign End Child Detention Now.

Clare had previously unearthed corruption and deceit around the UK Lottery, and in the Olympics. Her book, The Great Olympic Swindle, co-authored with Andrew Jennings, was short-listed for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award in 2000.

She is a frequent contributor to openDemocracy, guardian.co.uk and Private Eye.

A regular guest and tutor at the Arvon Foundation, Clare has taught fiction alongside Liz Jensen and Kamila Shamsie at Arvon Lumb Bank.

Clare has performed at Edinburgh and Hay Festivals, at the Harrogate Crime Writing Festival, the Edinburgh Radical Book Fair, Kendal Brewery, Tullie House and the Bluecoat, Liverpool. In October 2011 she gave oral evidence before the House of Lords Communications Committee’s inquiry into the future of investigative journalism.

Clare is due to speak at the Keswick Film Festival alongside film-maker Rachel Seifert in February 2012.

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