Nina Stibbe
Author
Nina left Leicestershire for London as a teenager and after two years as a nanny she studied Humanities at Thames Polytechnic.
After graduating in 1987, she worked for a while in a Camden frock shop. In 1990 she began a career in book publishing, finally becoming a commissioning editor at Routledge.
Her book Love, Nina (2013) won The National Book Awards best non-fiction book 2013 and her novel Man at the Helm (2014) is shortlisted for this year's EverymanWodehouse prize for comic fiction.
She lives in Cornwall with her partner and children.
