Susan Hill

Susan Hill

Susan Hill was born in 1942, Susan Hill has written at least 53 books. Their most popular book is The Woman in Black with 167 saves with an average rating of 3.6⭐.

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Author Bio

Novelist, children's writer and playwright Susan (Elizabeth) Hill was born in Scarborough, England, on 5 February 1942.

She was educated at Scarborough Convent School and at grammar school in Coventry, before reading English at King's College, London, graduating in 1963 and becoming a Fellow in 1978.

Her first novel, The Enclosure, was published in 1961 when she was still a student. She worked as a freelance journalist between 1963 and 1968, publishing her third novel, Gentleman and Ladies, in 1968. She became a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1972 and was a presenter of BBC Radio 4's 'Bookshelf' from 1986 to 1987. In 1996 she started her own publishing company, Long Barn Books, editing and publishing a quarterly literary journal, Books and Company, in 1998.

She won a Somerset Maugham Award for I'm the King of the Castle (1970); the Whitbread Novel Award for The Bird of Night (1972); and the Mail on Sunday/John Llewellyn Rhys Prize for The Albatross (1971), a collection of short stories.

Since then she has written many other novels including Strange Meeting (1971), set during the First World War; In the Springtime of the Year (1974); The Woman in Black (1983); Air and Angels (1991); The Mist in the Mirror (1992); The Service of Clouds (1998); and Mrs de Winter (1999), a sequel to Daphne du Maurier's Rebecca. The Woman in Black (1983), a Victorian ghost story, was successfully adapted for stage and television and is one of Susan Hill's most commercial successes. Her recent novels include the series of Simon Serrailler crime novels and various further ghost stories.

Susan Hill is also the author of two volumes of memoir, The Magic Apple Tree: A Country Year (1982), about her life in rural Oxfordshire during the 1970s, and Family (1989), in which she writes about her early life in Scarborough.

Her books for children include The Glass Angels (1991); Beware, Beware (1993); King of Kings (1993) and The Battle for Gullywith (2008). She has also written radio plays, a number of books of non-fiction and has edited several anthologies of short stories including two volumes of The Penguin Book of Modern Women's Short Stories, published in 1991 and 1997.

Her latest collection of short stories is Farthing House: And Other Stories (2006) and her latest novel is Black Sheep (2013).

Susan Hill is married to the Shakespeare scholar Professor Stanley Wells. She moved back to the sea, but this time to North Norfolk, in 2013.

https://literature.britishcouncil.org/writer/susan-hill

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The Woman in Black
The Woman in Black
  • Susan Hill
3.688 reads
The Various Haunts of Men
The Various Haunts of Men
  • Susan Hill
3.58 reads
The Small Hand
The Small Hand
  • Susan Hill
2.756 reads
The Mist in the Mirror
The Mist in the Mirror
  • Susan Hill
3.388 reads
Howards End is on the Landing: A Year of Reading from Home
Howards End is on the Landing: A Year of Reading from Home
  • Susan Hill
3.45 reads
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Dolly

Dolly
  • Susan Hill
2.65 reads
Mrs de Winter
Mrs de Winter
  • Susan Hill
2.52 reads
The Man in the Picture
The Man in the Picture
  • Susan Hill
4.52 reads
The Pure in Heart
The Pure in Heart
  • Susan Hill
42 reads
Dolly
Dolly
  • Susan Hill
22 reads
Howards End is on the landing
Howards End is on the landing
  • Susan Hill
42 reads
Reader, I Married Him: Stories Inspired by Jane Eyre
Reader, I Married Him: Stories Inspired by Jane Eyre
    31 read
    The Woman in Black and Other Ghost Stories
    The Woman in Black and Other Ghost Stories
    • Susan Hill
    00 reads
    The Woman in Black: A Ghost Play
    The Woman in Black: A Ghost Play
      32 reads
      The Travelling Bag And Other Ghostly Stories
      The Travelling Bag And Other Ghostly Stories
      • Susan Hill
      00 reads
      Cover 7

      The Risk of Darkness

      The Risk of Darkness
      • Susan Hill
      51 read
      A Question of Identity
      A Question of Identity
      • Susan Hill
      00 reads
      Hero: A Simon Serrailler Short Story
      Hero: A Simon Serrailler Short Story
      • Susan Hill
      00 reads
      The Walker Book of Ghost Stories
      The Walker Book of Ghost Stories
        01 read
        The Second Penguin Book of Modern Women's Short Stories: An Anthology
        The Second Penguin Book of Modern Women's Short Stories: An Anthology
          31 read
          Printer's Devil Court
          Printer's Devil Court
          • Susan Hill
          41 read
          Messy Dog
          Messy Dog
            31 read
            Cover 3

            Revenge

            Revenge
            • Susan Hill
            00 reads
            Old Haunts
            Old Haunts
            • Susan Hill
            00 reads
            Cover 6

            A Breach of Security

            A Breach of Security
            • Susan Hill
            00 reads
            Strange Meeting
            Strange Meeting
            • Susan Hill
            00 reads
            Cover 6

            Jacob's Room is Full of Books

            Jacob's Room is Full of Books: A Year of Reading
            • Susan Hill
            00 reads
            Mrs. de Winter
            Mrs. de Winter
            • Susan Hill
            00 reads
            Hunger
            Hunger
            • Susan Hill
            00 reads
            Black Sheep
            Black Sheep
            • Susan Hill
            51 read
            The Woman in Black
            The Woman in Black
            • Susan Hill
            00 reads
            The Woman in Black
            The Woman in Black
            • Susan Hill
            01 read
            The Woman in Black
            The Woman in Black
            • Susan Hill
            41 read
            Cover 5

            The Travelling Bag

            The Travelling Bag: And Other Ghostly Stories
            • Susan Hill
            51 read
            The Woman in Black
            The Woman in Black
            • Susan Hill
            41 read
            Ptak nocy
            Ptak nocy
            • Susan Hill
            00 reads
            The Soul of Discretion
            The Soul of Discretion
            • Susan Hill
            00 reads
            Gentleman and Ladies
            Gentleman and Ladies
            • Susan Hill
            31 read
            The Magic Apple Tree: A Country Year
            The Magic Apple Tree: A Country Year
            • Susan Hill
            41 read
            Cover 2

            In the Springtime of the Year

            In the Springtime of the Year
            • Susan Hill
            00 reads
            Through the Kitchen Window
            Through the Kitchen Window
            • Susan Hill
            00 reads
            Cover 2

            The Benefit of Hindsight

            The Benefit of Hindsight
            • Susan Hill
            00 reads
            The Wind in the Willows: A Fine Welcome
            The Wind in the Willows: A Fine Welcome
            • Kenneth Grahame
            00 reads
            The Comforts of Home
            The Comforts of Home
            • Susan Hill
            00 reads
            A Change of Circumstance
            A Change of Circumstance
            • Susan Hill
            00 reads
            Cover 0

            Reader's Digest Select Editions

            Reader's Digest Select Editions: The Last Juror/ The Various Haunts of Men/ The Codex/ The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
            • Reader's Digest Association
            • John Grisham
            • Susan Hill
            • Douglas Preston
            • Mark Haddon
            00 reads
            The Battle for Gullywith
            The Battle for Gullywith
            • Susan Hill
            01 read
            La donna in nero
            La donna in nero
            • Susan Hill
            • Ombretta Marchetti (Translator)
            00 reads
            Žena v černém
            Žena v černém
            • Susan Hill
            00 reads
            Malá ručka
            Malá ručka
            • Susan Hill
            • Jan Kozák (Translator)
            00 reads
            The mist in the mirror
            The mist in the mirror
            • Susan Hill
            • Roy Blatchford
            • Jackie Head
            00 reads
            Cover 6

            Die kleine Hand

            Die kleine Hand
            • Susan Hill
            • Susanne Aeckerle (Translator)
            00 reads
            امرأة في ثوب أسود
            امرأة في ثوب أسود
            • Susan Hill
            • السيد طه (Translator)
            00 reads