BLACK POWDER, Ally’s first novel, won the Historical Association’s Young Quills Award in 2017 and also won the North Somerset Teachers’ Book Awards in the ‘Moving On’ category in 2017, as well as being shortlisted for a number of other regional book awards. She is married and lives with her husband and assorted garden wildlife in Farnham, Surrey. Now, though, she is lucky enough to spend most of her time dreaming up characters and plots and getting them down on paper before they have a chance to escape. She has spent most of her professional career working in public relations and marketing on a whole host of projects from the promotion of Britain to overseas visitors to science festivals and Olympics celebrations. A teachers’ pack for Black Powder, including information on author inspirations, key themes and a range of classroom activities and discussion topics is available here: Black Powder Teachers’ Notes. She has a BA in medieval history and French from the University of Newcastle and an MA in Writing for Children at the University of Winchester. Ally Sherrick loves exploring ruined castles and decaying mansions and imagining what it must have been like to live in them without electricity and hot and cold running water – although she’s quite glad she doesn’t have to herself!
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