Kate Simkins

Kate Simkins has several titles with Big Thinking Publishing, including:

The Mysterious Life & Times of Bug (Middle-grade)
Inked (Short stories & Poetry)

And Upcoming Titles, including:

Oak & Thorn
The Brightwell Chronicles

Please feel free to contact Kate here:

Email: kate@kate-simkins.com

Kate’s Books

THE MYSTERIOUS LIFE & TIMES OF BUG: VOLUME 1 by Kate Simkins

Release date: 1 April, 2025

ISBN13: 9781068309908

ISBN10: 1068309903

Paperback RRP: £7.99

Blurb: The Mysterious Life & Times of Bug follows Bug’s adventures as he gets into all sorts of trouble and scrapes. Bug’s stories are irreverent and funny and our lovely but mischievous Bug finds himself being responsible for things much bigger than himself, including losing the library of Alexandria and the flooding of Atlantis.

INKED by Kate Simkins

Release date: 1 May, 2025

ISBN13: 9781917842280

ISBN10: 1917842287

Paperback RRP: £7.99

Blurb: This collection of stories and poems invites the reader to explore hidden worlds and unknown galaxies whilst finding space for thought-provoking reflection. These tales and poems show that what instinctively makes us human transcends time, place and genre and reveal that the most important truths, are universal.

OAK & THORN by Kate Simkins

(Cover is a placement, not the final design)

Release date: 14 November, 2025

ISBN13: 9781917842044

ISBN10: 191784204X

Paperback RRP: £9.99

Blurb: Hattie is a bookseller, caught between the World of Men and the Fae realms. When she is trapped in the World of Men by Snicket, a well-meaning hobgoblin, she must rely on her friends to get her safely back home.

THE WONDERCHILD (THE BRIGHTWELL CHRONICLES, #1) by Kate Simkins

Release date: 1 March 2026

ISBN: 9781917842631

Paperback RRP: £9.99

Blurb: Twelve-year-old Arlo Thorne never quite fitted in. Well, not at school, anyway.

So when he finds out that he is destined to become a student at Brightwell academy, (following a long line of Thornes in the House of Wonder), Arlo begins the feel that he has found his place in the world at last.

But not all is bright and rosy at Brightwell...