Bryony Pearce

Bryony Pearce is a multi-award-winning novelist working in the Children’s, YA and Adult markets.

Her novel for 9-12 year old readers, Hannah Messenger and the Gods of Hockwold is a comedy adventure about the Greek gods.

In the YA genre she has produced a mixture of award-winning dark thrillers, paranormal adventures and horror. Her most recent, a Greek myth retelling, called Aphrodite, was out in 2025 and is shortlisted for two awards. Her next, a thriller titled A Clean Kill will be out in July 2026.

For the adult market she writes domestic noir. The Girl on the Platform was published in 2021 and her follow up, Little Rumours, was out in March 2022. Her next adult thriller, Simon Says will be published in 2027.

Bryony also writes short stories, which have been published in a number of anthologies. She was shortlisted for a CWA Dagger Award for one of her short stories: Changeling.

She teaches a course at City University (London) called Writing for Children and delivers inspirational talks in schools and at other events. 

Bryony lives in Gloucestershire and has two teenagers. When she isn’t writing, she can usually be found taxi-ing them around. She spends a lot of time at the side of sports fields, listening to concerts and being creative in car-parks.

To buy Savage Island from Amazon click here, Phoenix Rising here and Phoenix Burning here (affiliate links).

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