Ally Wilkes

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Ally Wilkes
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Ally Wilkes is an LGBTQ English author of horror novels and short stories. [1] She also writes under the name A. V. Wilkes. [2] Wilkes studied law at the University of Oxford and practised as a criminal barrister for eleven years. She currently lives in Greenwich, London. [3]

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Wilkes has published two novels, All the White Spaces (2022) and Where the Dead Wait (2023), both alternate history polar exploration stories set in early twentieth-century Antarctica and nineteenth-century Arctic respectively. [2] She said she has always been fascinated by the early polar expeditions and "the unbeatable combination of harsh and deadly terrain, isolation, claustrophobia". [4]

Wilkes has also published several works of short fiction and is Book Reviews Editor for the British horror website, Horrified. [1] [2] [4] All the White Spaces was nominated for the 2022 Bram Stoker Award for Best First Novel. [5]

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References

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