R. A. Spratt

R. A. Spratt is a children's author and former television writer based in Bowral, New South Wales, best known for the Friday Barnes and Nanny Piggins series of comic novels.

Before turning to books, Spratt wrote for seventeen television programmes, beginning with the comedy panel show Good News Week in 1997 and later including the children's series Erky Perky, Gasp and CJ the DJ. The Adventures of Nanny Piggins series runs to nine books, Friday Barnes, Girl Detective to at least eleven, and The Peski Kids to five. Her other titles include Hamlet is Not OK, Romeo v Juliet, Epically Awesome Odyssey and the story collections Shockingly Good Stories and Astonishingly Good Stories, bringing her output to more than twenty books. She also hosts the podcast Bedtime Stories with R. A. Spratt and co-hosts Real Stories with Random Writers. She has won Booklist's Top of the List award. She lives in Bowral with her husband and two daughters.

For collectors

The opening books of her two main series, The Adventures of Nanny Piggins and Friday Barnes, Girl Detective, are the natural starting points for a Spratt collection.