Susan Hill

Susan Hill was born in 1942, Susan Hill has written at least 71 books. Their most popular book is The Woman in Black with 237 saves with an average rating of 3.64⭐.

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

Details	Rating	Readers Count
The Woman in Black Susan Hill	3.64	124 reads
The Various Haunts of Men Susan Hill	3.5	16 reads
The Small Hand Susan Hill	2.7	14 reads
The Mist in the Mirror Susan Hill	3.45	11 reads
The Man in the Picture Susan Hill	3.71	7 reads
Dolly Dolly Susan Hill	3	9 reads
The Pure in Heart Susan Hill	3.86	7 reads
Howards End is on the Landing: A Year of Reading from Home Susan Hill	3.4	5 reads
Mrs de Winter Susan Hill	2.5	3 reads
Reader, I Married Him: Stories Inspired by Jane Eyre	3	3 reads
The Risk of Darkness The Risk of Darkness Susan Hill	4.25	4 reads
Howards End is on the landing Susan Hill	3.5	4 reads
The Soul of Discretion Susan Hill	0	0 reads
In the Springtime of the Year In the Springtime of the Year Susan Hill	5	1 read
A Change of Circumstance Susan Hill	2	1 read
The Second Penguin Book of Modern Women's Short Stories: An Anthology	3	1 read
The Woman in Black and Other Ghost Stories Susan Hill	0	0 reads
A Question of Identity Susan Hill	0	0 reads
Dolly Susan Hill	2	2 reads
Black Sheep Susan Hill	4.5	2 reads
The Travelling Bag The Travelling Bag: And Other Ghostly Stories Susan Hill	4.5	2 reads
Gentleman and Ladies Susan Hill	3	1 read
Hero: A Simon Serrailler Short Story Susan Hill	0	0 reads
The Comforts of Home Susan Hill	0	0 reads
The Woman in Black: A Ghost Play	3	2 reads
The Walker Book of Ghost Stories	0	1 read
The Travelling Bag And Other Ghostly Stories Susan Hill	0	0 reads
The Woman in Black Susan Hill	4	2 reads
A Kind Man Susan Hill	3	2 reads
Hunger Susan Hill	3	1 read
Printer's Devil Court Susan Hill	4.5	2 reads
Mrs. De Winter: The Sequel To Daphne Du Maurier's Rebecca Susan Hill	0	0 reads
The Random House Book of Ghost Stories	0	0 reads
Messy Dog	3	1 read
Revenge Revenge Susan Hill	0	0 reads
Old Haunts Susan Hill	0	0 reads
A Breach of Security A Breach of Security Susan Hill	0	0 reads
Strange Meeting Susan Hill	0	0 reads
Jacob's Room is Full of Books Jacob's Room is Full of Books: A Year of Reading Susan Hill	0	0 reads
Mrs. de Winter Susan Hill	0	0 reads
Ptak nocy Susan Hill	0	0 reads
The Magic Apple Tree: A Country Year Susan Hill	4	1 read
Through the Kitchen Window Susan Hill	0	0 reads
The Benefit of Hindsight The Benefit of Hindsight Susan Hill	0	0 reads
Printer's Devil Court Susan Hill	4	1 read
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	0	0 reads
The Battle for Gullywith Susan Hill	0	1 read
The Shadows in the Street Susan Hill	0	0 reads
The Betrayal of Trust Susan Hill	0	0 reads
The Woman in Black Susan Hill	0	0 reads
La dama de negro Susan Hill	0	0 reads
A Bit of Singing and Dancing Susan Hill	2	1 read
Hero Susan Hill	0	0 reads
The Small Hand Susan Hill	0	0 reads
Air and Angels Susan Hill	0	0 reads
The Travelling Bag: And Other Ghostly Stories Susan Hill	4.5	1 read
The Wind in the Willows: A Fine Welcome Kenneth Grahame	0	0 reads
La donna in nero Susan Hill Ombretta Marchetti (Translator)	0	0 reads
The Woman in Black Susan Hill	0	0 reads
The Woman in Black Susan Hill	0	1 read
The Woman in Black Susan Hill	4	1 read
The Woman in Black Susan Hill	4	1 read
The Soul of Discretion Susan Hill	0	0 reads
A Question of Identity Susan Hill	0	0 reads
The Risk of Darkness Susan Hill	0	0 reads
Act Alan; Russell Susan; Haworth Don Bleasdale Susan Hill Don Haworth Willy Russell	3	1 read
Family Susan Hill	0	1 read
The Vows of Silence Susan Hill	0	0 reads
The Beacon Susan Hill	0	0 reads
امرأة في ثوب أسود Susan Hill السيد طه (Translator)	0	0 reads
Strange Meeting Strange Meeting Susan Hill	0	0 reads
The Small Hand The Small Hand Susan Hill	0	0 reads
Printer's Devil Court Printer's Devil Court Susan Hill	0	0 reads
Die kleine Hand Die kleine Hand Susan Hill Susanne Aeckerle (Translator)	0	0 reads
Malá ručka Susan Hill Jan Kozák (Translator)	0	0 reads
Žena v černém Susan Hill	0	0 reads
The mist in the mirror Susan Hill Roy Blatchford Jackie Head	0	0 reads
The Travelling Bag The Travelling Bag Susan Hill	0	0 reads
The Mist in the Mirror The Mist in the Mirror Susan Hill	0	0 reads