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Susan Hill


(Susan Elizabeth Hill)
UK flag (b.1942)

Susan Hill has been a full-time writer since 1963 and has written over thirty titles. Since 1977 she has been a monthly columnist for the Daily Telegraph.

She has also written several non-fiction books and books for children (Can It Be True? won the Smarties Prize), as well as editing short story compilations.

As well as writing, she has set up a publishing company, Long Barn Books, inspired by her lifelong admiration for Virginia Woolf and the Hogarth Press. She also runs a literary magazine, Books and Company, and owns the lease on a gift shop in Chipping Campden.
 

Genres: Mystery, Horror, Literary Fiction, Children's Fiction, General Fiction
 
Series
Simon Serrailler
   1. The Various Haunts of Men (2004)
   2. The Pure in Heart (2005)
   3. The Risk of Darkness (2006)
   4. The Vows of Silence (2008)
   5. The Shadows in the Street (2010)
   6. The Betrayal of Trust (2011)
   7. A Question of Identity (2012)
   8. The Soul of Discretion (2014)
   8.5. A Breach of Security (2014)
   8.6. Hero (2016)
   Old Haunts (2018)
   9. The Comforts of Home (2018)
   Revenge (2019)
   10. The Benefit of Hindsight (2019)
   11. A Change of Circumstance (2021)
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Novels
   The Enclosure (1961)
   Do Me a Favour (1963)
   Gentlemen and Ladies (1968)
   A Change for the Better (1969)
   I'm the King of the Castle (1970)
   Strange Meeting (1971)
   The Bird of Night (1972)
   In the Springtime of the Year (1974)
   The Woman in Black (1983)
   Air and Angels (1991)
   The Glass Angels (1991)
   Friends Next Door (1992)
   A Very Special Birthday (1992)
   The Mist in the Mirror (1992)
   Mrs De Winter (1993)
   The Service of Clouds (1998)
   The Battle for Gullywith (2008)
   The Beacon (2008)
   A Kind Man (2011)
   Black Sheep (2013)
   From the Heart (2017)
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Collections
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Novellas and Short Stories
   The Custodian (1972)
   Antonyin's (2011)
   The Brooch (2011)
   Father, Father (2011)
   The Punishment (2011)
   Crystal (2012)
   Hunger (2013)
   Irish Twins (2014)
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Anthologies edited
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Picture Books show
 
Non fiction show
 
Susan Hill recommends
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Melmoth (2018)
Sarah Perry
"Sarah Perry is a wonderful writer, the real thing. Her new novel Melmoth packs a punch of atmosphere, creepiness, fear and melancholy. I am going to move it off my bedside table because it is haunting my sleep."
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The Mitford Murders (2017)
(Mitford Murders, book 1)
Jessica Fellowes
"Oh how delicious! This terrific start to what promises to be a must-read series is exactly what we all need in these gloomy times. Inventive, glittering, clever, ingenious. I devoured The Mitford Murders... so will you."
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The Upstairs Room (2017)
Kate Murray-Browne
"The Upstairs Room is the real thing. Frightening and clever and full of atmosphere."

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Anthologies containing stories by Susan Hill
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Reader, I Married Him (2016)
Stories Inspired by Jane Eyre
edited by
Tracy Chevalier
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Loss (2013)
Great Short Stories for Women by Women
edited by
Victoria Hislop

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Awards
Booker Prize Best Novel nominee (1972) : The Bird of Night
Whitbread Prize Best Novel winner (1972) : The Bird of Night


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