Vita & the Gladiator (Paperback)

A rip-roaring Roman mystery from Historical

Association Young Quills Award-winning author Ally Sherrick.

PRAISE FOR BLACK POWDER - WINNER OF THE

HISTORIAL ASSOCIATION YOUNG QUILLS AWARD:

' ... a wonderfully explosive adventure set in the turbulent

year of the gunpowder plot in Black Powder with impossibly

divided loyalties.' JULIA GOLDING, AUTHOR OF THE

DIAMOND OF DRURY LANE

'With its constant reversals and twists and turns, Tom's story

is almost as complex as the pliot and counter-plot of the Gunpowder

Treason itself ... The writing is lively and the pace never

flags.' HISTORICAL NOVEL SOCIETY

Vita longs to write the plays that she steals off to watch - but

as the daughter of a high-born Roman, her only future is marriage.

When her father is murdered, everything changes. 

She escapes with her life - only to end up a slave, sharing a

cell with a fierce gladiator, Brea, and her wolf. 

But when Vita and Brea discover they have a common enemy, they

know they must stand together for truth and justice ...

A rip-roaring adventure set in Roman London from the

rising queen of middle-grade historical fiction, Ally Sherrick 

Vita, nicknamed 'Little Owl' by her father, is an unlikely

hero – but when her father is murdered she has to uncover

the truth, even if it means finding unlikely friends

Themes of deceit, storytelling and fighting justice