Andrew Prentice author page

Andrew Prentice biography

Andrew Prentice is an author of YA historical novels and children’s non-fiction. His YA novels include Black Arts and Devil’s Blood, and he has also written for comics and animation.

Prentice and Jonathan Weil met at school, where they edited the school magazine together. Their first book was Black Arts, a historical fantasy adventure set in Elizabethan London and published in paperback on 4 April 2013 as part of The Books of Pandemonium series.

Black Arts was shortlisted for the Branford Boase Prize and longlisted for the Carnegie Medal. The book was published by DFB, Random House, and its paperback edition has 496 pages.

Prentice wrote AMELIA (Earhart – First Names), a children’s biography in the First Names series about Amelia Earhart, the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean. The paperback was published by David Fickling Books on 4 April 2019.