Ann Turnbull

For the 19th-century writer, see Ann Charlotte Turnbull.

Ann Turnbull (born 1943) is a British writer of fiction for children and young adults. Her work includes Pigeon Summer, a novel set in a Midlands mining town during the Great Depression of the 1930s which is about a young girl named Mary Dyer, and No Shame, No Fear, a novel for young adults that depicts the persecution of Quakers during the 1660s, and is set in both Shropshire and London and was shortlisted for the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize . Pigeon Summer was nominated for the Nestle Smarties Book Prize and No Shame, No Fear was nominated for the Whitbread Book Award. She has written a number of picture books but the best known is The Sand Horse which is illustrated by Michael Foreman.

Bibliography

Older fiction

Quaker trilogy

• No Shame, No Fear (2003)
• Forged in the Fire (2006)
• Seeking Eden (2012)

Other novels

• Alice in Love and War (2009)
• In That Time of Secrets (2018)

Middle years fiction

Pigeon Summer trilogy

• Pigeon Summer (1992) (published in the United States as Speedwell)
• No Friend of Mine (1994)
• Room for a Stranger (1996)

Other novels

• The Frightened Forest (1974)
• The Wolf King (1975)
• Maroo of the Winter Caves (1984)
• Summer of the Cats (1987)
• Trouble with Bats (1989)
• The Lost Spaceship (1990)
• Deep Water (1996)
• A Long Way Home (1997)
• House of Ghosts (2000)
• Gunner's Boy (2002)

Series contributed to

• Girls with a Voice (originally Mary Ann and Miss Mozart) (2007) (adopted the current title in 2018)
• Girls at War (originally Josie Under Fire (2004) (adopted the current title in 2019)

part of the 6 Chelsea Walk series (originally published as Historical House)

Short story collection

• Greek Myths (2010)

Younger fiction

Novels

• The Fairy Cow (1998)
• The Serpent's Cave (2000)

Picture books

• Never a Witch's Cat (1989)
• The Queen Cat (1989)
• The Sandhorse (1989)
• Make It, Break It (1990)
• Rob Goes A-Hunting (1990)
• There's a Monster Under My Bed (1990)
• A Flying Day (1991)
• The Tapestry Cats (1992)
• Too Tired (1993)
• The Last Wolf (1995)
• The Sleeping Beauty (1997)

Chapter books

• Plague: A Cross on the Door (2013)
• The Great Fire: A City in Flames (2013)
• The Gunpowder Plot: A Time for Treason (2014)

External links

• Official website
• Ann Turnbull at Library of Congress, with 16 library catalogue records
• Bibliography