Susan Hill

(Susan Elizabeth Hill)
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(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.

Awards:Whitbread(1972),SoA(1971) see all

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)
   12.The Sound of Footsteps (2023)

Susan Hill's Ghost Stories
   The Man in the Picture (2007)
   The Small Hand (2010)
   Dolly (2012)
   Printer's Devil Court (2014)

Billy-William Bigheart
1.The Kindest Boy in the Universe (2015)
2.The Best Day's Outing in the Whole World, Ever! (2016)

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)
   The Mist in the Mirror (1992)
   A Very Special Birthday (1992)
   Friends Next Door (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)

Collections

   The Albatross (1971)
   A Bit of Singing and Dancing (1973)
   The Cold Country (1975)
   Stories From Codling Village (1990)
   The Christmas Collection (1994)
   Listening to the Orchestra (1996)
   The Boy Who Taught the Beekeeper to Read (2003)
   Farthing House (2006)
   Need / Moving Messages (2011)
   Sand / Elizabeth (2011)
   The Woman in Black and Other Ghost Stories (2015)
   The Travelling Bag (2016)
   Walter and Florence (2020)

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)

Anthologies edited

   New Stories (1980) (with Isabel Quigly)
   People (1983)
   Ghost Stories (1983)
   The Parchment Moon (1990)
   The Walker Book of Ghost Stories (1990)
   The Penguin Book of Modern Women's Short Stories 1 (1991)
   The Random House Book of Ghost Stories (1991)
   Contemporary Women's Short Stories (1995)
   The Second Penguin Book of Modern Women's Short Stories (1997)

Picture Booksshow

   Go Away Bad Dreams (1985)
     akaOne Night at a Time
   Mother's Magic (1986)
   Can it be True? (1988)
   Suzy's Shoes (1989)
   I Won't Go there Again (1990)
   Septimus Honeydew (1991)
   Pirate Poll (1992)
   Beware, Beware (1993)
   King of Kings (1993)
   Peter Pan (2012)
   The Wind in the Willows (2013)

Non fictionshow

   The Magic Apple Tree (1982)
   Through the Kitchen Window (1984)
   Through the Garden Gate (1986)
   The Lighting of the Lamps (1987)
   Shakespeare Country (1987)
   Lanterns Across the Snow (1987)
   The Spirit of the Cotswolds (1988)
   Family (1989)
   Spirit of Britain - an Illustrated Guide to Literary Britain (1994)
   Reflections from a Garden (1995)
   Howards End Is On The Landing (2009)
   Jacob's Room is Full of Books (2017)
   The Unsung Hero of Pakistan (2018)

Books containing stories by Susan Hill

Reader, I Married Him (2016)

edited by
Tracy Chevalier

Literary Lunch (2015)

Loss (2013)

edited by
Victoria Hislop

The Library Book (2012)

A Distant Cry (2002)

edited by
Peter Tolhurst

The Random House Book of Ghost Stories (1991)
edited by
Susan Hill

Best for Winter (1979)

edited by
A D MacLean

Women Writing (1979)

edited by
Denys Val Baker

More books

Awards

	1972Whitbread Prize for Best Novel : The Bird of Night
	1971Somerset Maugham Award : I'm the King of the Castle

Award nominations

	2023CWA Dagger in the Library (shortlist)
	2012CWA Dagger in the Library (shortlist)
	2011CWA Dagger in the Library (shortlist)
	2010Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year (shortlist) : The Vows of Silence
	2008Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year (shortlist) : The Risk of Darkness
	2007Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year (shortlist) : The Pure in Heart
	2007CWA Dagger in the Library (shortlist)
	2006Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year (shortlist) : The Various Haunts of Men
	1972Booker Prize (shortlist) : The Bird of Night