Allison Rushby

Allison Rushby is the author of more than 30 books. Her middle grade titles include The Ghost Locket, The Mulberry Tree, The Turnkey, which won the 2018 Davitt Award for best children's crime novel, and the illustrated junior fiction series The Wish Sisters and Miss Penny Dreadful. In September 2025 she will return to publishing for adults with gothic feminist body horror title Slashed Beauties, which will be published simultaneously in Australia, the US and the UK.