Emily Randall-Jones

Emily trained as an actor, spending years touring across the UK and Ireland with the set in a horse box. (She once died three times in the same show). Since then she’s appeared as a Georgian princess at Hampton Court Palace and worked for the National Trust at Cliveden Estate and Ham House, devising trails, events and exhibitions.

Emily writes haunting middle-grade mysteries, and her book The Witch Stone Ghosts was published by Chicken House in October 2023 and was long-listed for the Branford Boase Award in 2024. The Scream of the Whistle was released in 2025.

Emily was late diagnosed ADHD at 36 and is currently on the autism waitlist (two years and counting!) She created the 'Neurodivergent Writing Group' as part of WriteMentor - a safe space for ND writers to meet and commune.