Cathy Hopkins

Hopkins was born in Manchester, but lived in Kenya from the age of five until she was eleven and her family returned to England. She also sang with a rock and roll band named Driving Rock and the Rockettes, which toured local colleges and universities as the warm-up band to groups such as Wizard and The Average White Band.

Her late father wrote under the name Billy Hopkins. His titles include Our Kid, Kate's Story, High Hopes, Going Places, Anything Goes, Whatever Next, Tommy's World and Big Mama.

Hopkins started writing books in 1987, collaborating with cartoonist Gray Jolliffe on a series of humour books.[1] She has had over 70 books published, many in 33 countries, including the Mates, Dates series, the Truth, Dare, Kiss or Promise series, the Cinnamon Girl series (published by Piccadilly Press) and the Zodiac Girls series (published by Kingfisher/Macmillan Publishers) and the Million Dollar Mates series published by Simon and Schuster. She also wrote four stand alone novels for teenagers which are ''Holy Moley, I'm a Dead Dude'' for Chickenhouse, Playlist for a Broken Heart and Love At Second Sight and A Home for Shimmer for Simon and Schuster. Cathy started writing for the older market with her first novel for adults which was published in March 2017 by HarperCollins and is called The Kicking the Bucket List. Her second title, Dancing Over The Hill, was published in January 2018 and her third novel titled Blast From the Past was published in February 2019. Her fourth book for Harpercollins, A Vintage Friendship, was published as a e book in August 2020 and was followed by the paperback in February 2021

Cathy Hopkins was shortlisted for the Queen of Teen award in 2010.<ref>Katie Allen,

Published by Harpercollins: The Kicking the Bucket List (2017) Dancing over the Hill (2018) Blast From the Past (2019) A Vintage Friendship (2020)

Published by Piccadilly Press:

• Cathy Hopkins page on the Publisher's website
• Interview of Cathy Hopkins: 'I wanted to up the glam stakes a bit'