Susan Hill
Susan Hill has been a professional writer for over fifty years. Her books have won awards and prizes including the Whitbread, the John Llewellyn Rhys and the Somerset Maugham; and have been shortlisted for the Booker. Her novels include Strange Meeting, I'm the King of the Castle and A Kind Man; and she has also published autobiographical works and collections of short stories. The play of her ghost story The Woman in Black has been running in London's West End since 1988. She is married with two adult daughters and lives in North Norfolk.
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Books by Susan Hill
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A Question of Identity: Simon Serrailler Book 7
by Susan HillPublished: 19/11/2012
A cruel and strange murder confronts detective Simon Serrailler in the seventh novel in this highly successful crime series
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In the Springtime of the Year
by Susan HillPublished: 01/06/2012
A beautiful, lyrical novel about love and loss, and grief and mourning from the author of A Kind Man and The Woman in Black
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A Kind Man
by Susan HillPublished: 01/03/2012
Susan Hill proves once again that she is one of our very best storytellers in this transfixing parable of greed, goodness and an extraordinary miracle
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The Woman In Black
by Susan HillPublished: 01/02/2012
Published to tie-in with major new film adaptation starring Harry Potter's Daniel Radcliffe.
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Antonyin's (Storycuts)
by Susan HillPublished: 17/11/2011
A wonderfully atmospheric tale of loneliness and alienation.
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Father, Father (Storycuts)
by Susan HillPublished: 17/11/2011
A moving and thought-provoking meditation on grief and family.
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Need / Moving Messages (Storycuts)
by Susan HillPublished: 17/11/2011
Two short stories: the tiny details which reveal sparks of humanity in even the darkest of places; and a poetic and colourful snapshot of mid-life insecurity.
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Sand / Elizabeth (Storycuts)
by Susan HillPublished: 17/11/2011
Two short stories: a thought-provoking reflection on the peculiar nature of grief; and a moving portrait of the tensions between familial loyalty and independent ambition.
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The Boy Who Taught The Beekeeper To Read (Storycuts)
by Susan HillPublished: 17/11/2011
A beautiful and nuanced tale of friendship and solitude.
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The Brooch (Storycuts)
by Susan HillPublished: 17/11/2011
A moving portrayal of the fragility of childhood illusions and innocence.
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The Punishment (Storycuts)
by Susan HillPublished: 17/11/2011
A masterful portrayal of the corrosive effects of guilt and anger, as seen through the eyes of a young protagonist.
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The Shadows in the Street: Simon Serrailler Book 5
by Susan HillPublished: 15/09/2011
The fifth in the series of bestsellers featuring Simon Serrailler, The Shadows in the Street is Susan Hill's most electrifying crime novel yet, another gripping and psychologically acute story set in the darker side of a cathedral town.
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The Pure In Heart: Simon Serrailler Book 2
by Susan HillPublished: 02/11/2009
‘Not all great novelists can write crime crime fiction but when one like Susan Hill does it the result is stunning.’ Ruth Rendell
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The Risk of Darkness: Simon Serrailler Book 3
by Susan HillPublished: 02/11/2009
Simon Serrailler in love at last ... the third crime novel about Susan Hill's fictional Detective Chief Inspector, Simon Serrailler, continues the story of a busy police station in a small English Cathedral town.
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The Various Haunts Of Men: Simon Serrailler Book 1
by Susan HillPublished: 02/11/2009
‘I loved this book…Not all great novelists can write crime fiction but when Susan Hill does the result is stunning’ Ruth Rendell
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The Vows of Silence: Simon Serrailler Book 4
by Susan HillPublished: 02/11/2009
The fourth in the series of bestselling crime novels featuring Simon Serrailler, now a Detective Chief Superintendent.
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The Beacon
by Susan HillPublished: 15/10/2009
Marvellously written short novella from Susan Hill - a family story as evocative, gripping and Gothic as her best-selling ghost story, The Woman in Black.
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The Woman In Black (Vintage Classic)
by Susan HillPublished: 03/12/2007
Heartstoppingly chilling - Daily Express.
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The Boy Who Taught The Beekeeper To Read: and Other Stories
by Susan HillPublished: 15/06/2004
An exciting event: a new collection of short stories by Susan Hill- elegant, poetic, intelligent and brave.
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Air And Angels
by Susan HillPublished: 15/10/1999
An unsettling and absorbing tale from the bestselling author of The Woman in Black.
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Mrs De Winter
by Susan HillPublished: 15/10/1999
Rejacketed alongside Air and Angels, The Mist in the Mirror and The Woman in Black to create a set of Susan Hill's most absorbing, enchanting and unsettling backlist titles.
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The Mist In The Mirror
by Susan HillPublished: 15/10/1999
From the author of The Woman in Black comes a deeply disturbing and enjoyably terrifying ghost story about a villainous exporer and the mysteries that enshroud him.
