Samantha Baines is the author of three critically acclaimed books, all centred around deafness and hearing loss. She uses her own deaf experience and humour to inform her writing.

 

Her award-winning debut children's fiction Harriet Versus the Galaxy was optioned for TV, listed in the Best Books of the Year in the ipaper and is a Teacher's Pick on Amazon. Her second book for Bloomsbury education, was longlisted for the Adrien Prize. Samantha's first non-fiction title Living With Hearing Loss and Deafness (published by Headline) was a number 1 bestseller in it's Amazon category and has been featured in The Telegraph, Stylist Magazine, BBC Radio 4, BBC Radio 2 and Metro. Author Adam Kay called it "highly informative, told with warmth and humour". Samantha is currently working on new children's fiction for 2027.

 

All of her books are available on online and in person in bookstores. She also wrote a poem which was included in the anthology What Meets The Eye by Arachne Press.