Sita Brahmachari's first novel, Artichoke Hearts won the Waterstone's Children's Book Prize 2011, was chosen for The Book Trust's Booked Up scheme, and nominated for the Carnegie Prize 2012. Her second novel, Jasmine Skies was published in March 2012.
One of her top ten books that take you travelling, as told to the Guardian:
The Arrival by Shaun Tan
This wonderful graphic novel encapsulates