Truth or Busted explores the fact or fiction behind stuff you THINK you know about popular everyday topics!

• 1: All you need to survive in the wild is food
• 2: You can overpower a crocodile with an elastic band
• 3: Jump in a falling lift to save yourself
• 4: A make up mirror can save your life
• 5: Never drink seawater
• 6: All scorpians are deadly
• 7: In the Arctic can stay in a 5-star hotel made of ice
• 8: If a hippo swallows your head, you're history
• 9: A train was lost in quick sand
• 10: Sharks are more deadly than cows

Kay Barnham was born in Barrow-in-Furness, grew up in Carlisle, went to college in Brighton, and lived in Hove for a while, before sailing for Kinsale, Co Cork, popping back to Hove and then moving to the New Forest with her husband and daughter. And never at any point has she lived more than ten miles from the sea.
She began working in children's publishing in 1992. She was an editor first of all, working on illustrated non-fiction and learning fun facts like how long it would take to walk to the moon - nine years - and how to spell palaeontology. Next, she commissioned fiction titles, editing picture books, storybooks and novels. And then she got the chance to write her own books, which she thinks is quite the best job ever. Except possibly being a chocolatier. She writes non-fiction as Kay Barnham. Her specialist subjects include ice-skating, Isambard Kingdom Brunel, lightning, fairies, Roald Dahl, Sir Isaac Newton, Christmas, dolphins, Florence Nightingale and very bad cracker jokes. And chocolate.
She also writes fiction as Kay Woodward, including the Skate School series for Usborne and the novels Jane Airhead and Wuthering Hearts for Andersen Press. Altogether, she's written about a hundred books. Her favourite colour is navy blue. Her favourite chocolate is 85% cocoa solids.