Amelia Tait, journalist, children's author.

Amelia Tait is a British journalist and author whose work has made her one of the sharpest observers of modern life online and off. As a freelance writer, she has built a reputation for following the strange, revealing currents of contemporary culture — writing about the internet, and remarkable people for publications including The New Yorker, The Guardian, Wired, and the New York Times.

Her reporting is often drawn to the places where technology and absurdity collide, finding the human story inside subjects other people might dismiss as niche or ephemeral. Now she has turned that same wit and curiosity to fiction with her debut children’s book, Lily Tripp: Diary of an Accidental Time Traveller, a funny, fast-moving adventure about a girl bouncing through history while trying to survive friendship drama and the general embarrassment of being thirteen.

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Amelia Tait – website & writing

Amelia Tait – official website

The Waiting Room – Amelia's Substack newsletter

Lily Tripp: Diary of an Accidental Time Traveller

Lily Tripp – Waterstones (Waterstones Children's Book of the Month, June 2026)

Lily Tripp – Amazon UK

Amelia's Perfect Console

Theme Hospital (1997) – Wikipedia

The Simpsons: Road Rage (2001) – Wikipedia