Katherine Reilly

Katherine Reilly is a pseudonym for journalist and author Katy Birchall. Katy is the author of several romantic-comedy and contemporary fiction novels for adults including The Secret Bridesmaid, The Wedding Season, The Last Word and One Last Thing. She writes romantic fiction for young adults under the pen name Ivy Bailey, romantic comedy under the name Katrina Logan, and romantic sports fiction, including Match Point, Ride the Wave and Polo Fever, for adults under Katherine Reilly. She is also the author of several young adult and teen novels, including The It Girl series, the Hotel Royale series, the Morgan Charmley: Teen Witch series and the How Not to be a Vampire Slayer series. She is the co-author of the middle grade Lightning Girl series, Star Switch, Girls Rule and the Luna Wolf books with Alesha Dixon, the Ella Jones series with influencer Lucy Edwards, and co-author of the Find the Girl YA series with Lydia and Lucy Connell. She has written a retelling of Jane Austen’s Emma for the Awesomely Austen series, the Netflix spin-off novel Sex Education: The Road Trip, and the non-fiction book How to be a Princess: Real-life Fairy Tales for Modern Heroines. Katy lives in rural Suffolk with her husband, daughters and rescue dog.