Clare Sambrook

In high school, Sambrook won the Vellacott History Prize from the University of Cambridge. She later studied at Cambridge.^[1]

After university, Sambrook began working for the John Lewis Gazette, then worked for the Haymarket Group. She later was employed by The Daily Telegraph newspaper, before leaving to become a freelance journalist so that she could concentrate on investigations.^[1]

Canongate published Sambrook's first novel, Hide and Seek, in the UK in 2005. The book is written from the point of view of a nine-year-old boy called Harry who had to deal with the aftermath of the abduction of his five-year-old brother, Daniel.^[2]

In 2010, Sambrook won the Paul Foot Award and the Bevins Prize for her articles that exposed government policies concerning the arrest and detention of asylum-seeking families and for her work with the "End Child Detention Now" campaign, which she co-founded.^[3]

She was nominated for the Orwell Prize in 2013^[3] and 2015.^[4]