Welcome to the website of historical novelist A.L.Berridge!

Louise is the bestselling author of the Chevalier series of historical novels about André de Roland, of which Honour and the Sword was published in 2010 and In the Name of the King in 2011, both by Penguin Books.

She's also writing a brand new series about a Victorian military hero called Harry Ryder, who makes his first appearance in Into the Valley of Death, to be published in May 2012.

   Into the Valley of Death came out on 10th May 2012. This is the first in a new series featuring Harry Ryder, and is set in the Crimean War.

'The novel opens at a cracking pace and accelerates... A. L. Berridge has done it again – quite simply superb.'

The Historical Novel Society

'explodes into life, drama and action on every page. This truly is an outstanding book.'

Parmenion Books

'Absorbing , intelligent and brutally honest story telling. Into the Valley of Death is definitely a hit!'

Edi's Book Lighthouse

'pitch-perfect, breakneck writing... bringing the Crimea back to life'

Conn Iggulden 

Read more reviews here.

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Honour and the Sword is the first in a series of books following the adventures of André de Roland through the tumultuous history of seventeenth-century France, set against the brutal backdrop of The Thirty Years War.

You can buy it here.

In The Name of the King is the second book in the Chevalier series, and came out in August 2011. It can be read as a one-off novel, but it picks up directly where Honour and the Sword leaves off, in the eventful summer of 1640.

You can buy it here.