Adele Parks MBE is the author of 25 bestselling novels including the recent Sunday Times bestsellers Just Between Us and One Last Secret. Over six million copies of her work have been sold in English and her books have been translated into a 31 different languages. This year she released her 25th novel in 25 years, OUR BEAUTIFUL MESS, which was an instant Sunday Times bestseller.

Adele’s Sunday Times Number One bestsellers, Lies Lies Lies and Just My Luck were shortlisted for the British Book Awards, and Adele has also won two Neilsen Bestseller Awards, the RNA Outstanding Achievement Award, a Capital Crime Fingerprint Award and the Quick Read Learners’ Favourite Award.

Adele has written for a variety of national newspapers and magazines, and was an Executive Producer on Paramount’s feature film adaptation of her novel, The Image of You.

She is a proud, long-term ambassador of the National Literacy Trust and the Reading Agency: two charities that promote literacy in the UK.

In 2022 she was awarded an MBE for services to literature.