Natasha Narayan

Natasha Narayan is a British author born in Bangalore, India. She writes the Kit Salter Adventures, a four-book series of historical adventure novels for young readers — The Mummy Snatcher of Memphis, The Maharajah's Monkey, The Book of Bones, and The Shaman's Secret — that follow a spirited teenage heroine on globe-spanning journeys evoking the age of Victorian exploration. The novels combine historical backdrops with brisk plotting, mystery, and humor aimed at a middle-grade audience, part of a wave of British children's fiction recasting the nineteenth-century adventure story for young readers. Narayan's published fiction centers on this run of four novels, released between 2009 and 2011, which found an international readership through UK children's publishing.