Ann Turnbull
Ann Turnbull 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.
Older fiction
Quaker trilogy
- No Shame, No Fear
- Forged in the Fire
- Seeking Eden
Other novels
- Alice in Love and War
- In That Time of Secrets
Middle years fiction
Pigeon Summer trilogy
- Pigeon Summer
- No Friend of Mine
- Room for a Stranger
Other novels
- The Frightened Forest
- The Wolf King
- Maroo of the Winter Caves
- Summer of the Cats
- Trouble with Bats
- The Lost Spaceship
- Deep Water
- A Long Way Home
- House of Ghosts
- Gunner's Boy
- Girls with a Voice
- Girls at War
Short story collection
- Greek Myths
Younger fiction
Novels
- The Fairy Cow
- The Serpent's Cave
Picture books
- Never a Witch's Cat
- The Queen Cat
- The Sandhorse
- Make It, Break It
- Rob Goes A-Hunting
- There's a Monster Under My Bed
- A Flying Day
- The Tapestry Cats
- Too Tired
- The Last Wolf
- The Sleeping Beauty
Chapter books
- Plague: A Cross on the Door
- The Great Fire: A City in Flames
- The Gunpowder Plot: A Time for Treason