Caroline Akrill

Caroline Akrill started out as an equestrian journalist penning articles for Pony, Light Horse, Hoofprint and The Field. When she turned to writing teenage horse fiction, her eventing trilogy, Eventer’s Dream, A Hoof in the Door and Ticket to Ride, featuring the impoverished and unforgettable Fane sisters and their stable of crocked-up horses, sold 75,000 copies, which was something of a record at the time. The trilogy is now available on Amazon Kindle and is all set to entertain a new generation of horse and pony lovers. An anthology of Caroline’s articles from Pony and Light Horse, including her celebrated (and disastrous) hunting diary, appear in Not Quite a Horsewoman, which has been continually in print for over 32 years (again, something of a record for a horse book) and is still available in paperback from Robert Hale as well as on Amazon Kindle.

Caroline worked as publisher for J A Allen (The Horseman’s Publisher) Ltd., in Lower Grosvenor Place adjacent to the Royal Mews in Buckingham Palace Road for almost 25 years, becoming Chief Executive just before the death of the eccentric and totally irreplaceable founder, Joe Allen, and the subsequent sale of the company to Robert Hale Ltd. She then spent 10 years running an award-winning country house hotel in North Wales before returning to Suffolk and resuming her writing career.