Kate Saunders (born 1960) is an English writer, actress and journalist. The daughter of the early public relations advocate Basil Saunders and his journalist wife Betty (née Smith),Saunders has worked for newspapers and magazines in the UK, including The Sunday Times, Sunday Express, Daily Telegraph, She and Cosmopolitan.She has also been a regular contributor to radio and television, with appearances on the Radio 4 programmes Woman's Hour, Start the Week and Kaleidoscope.She was, with Sandi Toksvig, a guest on the first episode of the long-running news quiz programme Have I Got News for You.Saunders won the annual Costa Children's Book Award for Five Children on the Western Front (2014).