Katharine Quarmby is an award-winning writer, journalist and film-maker specialising in social affairs with an investigative and campaigning edge. She has spent most of her working life as a journalist and has made many films for the BBC, as well as working as a correspondent for the Economist, contributing to British broadsheets, including the Guardian, Sunday Times and the Telegraph. She is now an associate editor at Prospect magazine, but also freelances regularly for other papers, including a stint providing roving political analysis for the Economist during the 2010 general election.In 2007 Katharine started to investigate a number of violent killings of disabled men and women across the UK. As news editor of the disability magazine, Disability Now, she was able to put together the first national dossier of such crimes that year, following it up with an investigative report on disability hate crimes, Getting Away with Murder, for the charity Scope and the UK's Disabled People's Council, in 2008. Her first book for adults, Scapegoat, an investigation into disability hate crime, is published early 2011 by Portobello Press.Katharine also writes books for children. Her first book, Fussy Freya, was published by Frances Lincoln in 2008 and is now being adapted for the theatre.