Ally Sherrick

Ally is the award-winning author of stories full of history, mystery and adventure.

Black Powder, her debut novel about a boy caught up in the Gunpowder Plot, won the 2017 Historical Association’s Young Quills Award. This was followed by The Buried Crown, a wartime tale with a whiff of Anglo-Saxon myth and magic (2018), a Tudor-set adventure, The Queen’s Fool (2021) and her Roman London-set mystery thriller, Vita and the Gladiator (2023) – runner-up in the Young Quills Awards 2024. Her new book, also with Chicken House Books, is Rebel Heart, a rip-roaring adventure story publishing in March 2025 and set at the time of the English Civil Wars.

Website: www.allysherrick.com
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