Susan Hill (1) (1942–)
Auteur de La dame en noir
Pour les autres auteurs qui s'appellent Susan Hill, voyez la page de désambigüisation.
A propos de l'auteur
Susan Hill was born in Scarborough, United Kingdom on February 5, 1942. She received a degree in English from King's College in London in 1963. Her first book, The Enclosure, was published during her first year at university. She worked as a freelance journalist between 1963 and 1968 and has been a afficher plus monthly columnist for the Daily Telegraph since 1977. She founded her own publishing company, Long Barn Books, in 1996 and publishes a literary magazine called Books and Company. She has written works of fiction and non-fiction as well as children's books. She also edits short story compilations. Her works include Gentleman and Ladies, A Change for the Better, The Woman in Black, The Mist in the Mirror, and the Simon Serrailler Crime Novel series. She has won numerous awards including a Somerset Maugham Award for I'm the King of the Castle, the Whitbread Novel Award for The Bird of Night, the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize for The Albatross, and the Smarties Prize for Can It Be True? (Bowker Author Biography) afficher moins
Séries
Œuvres de Susan Hill
The Penguin Book of Modern Women's Short Stories (1990) — Directeur de publication — 100 exemplaires
The Woman in Black and Other Ghost Stories: The Collected Ghost Stories of Susan Hill (1834) 62 exemplaires
The Penguin Book of Contemporary Women's Short Stories (1995) — Directeur de publication — 37 exemplaires
The Second Penguin Book of Modern Women's Short Stories (1997) — Directeur de publication — 27 exemplaires
Phantomschmerzen 2 exemplaires
Books and Company, Issue 2 2 exemplaires
On the Face Of It 1 exemplaire
The custodian 1 exemplaire
Susan Hill’s A Ghost Story, The Small Hand (from the author of The Women in Black) [DVD] [2020] 1 exemplaire
How Soon Can I Leave? (in Penguin Modern Stories 7) 1 exemplaire
In the Conservatory (in Penguin Modern Stories 7) 1 exemplaire
Books and Company Issue 3 — Directeur de publication — 1 exemplaire
Books and Company Issue 4 — Directeur de publication — 1 exemplaire
Books and Company Issue 1 — Directeur de publication — 1 exemplaire
Do me a favour 1 exemplaire
The enclosure 1 exemplaire
Books & Company - Issue 5 1 exemplaire
Books and Company Issue 13 1 exemplaire
A mulher de preto - vol. 1 (Portuguese Edition) 1 exemplaire
Oeuvres associées
Counting My Chickens . . .: And Other Home Thoughts (2001) — Directeur de publication — 157 exemplaires
Reader's Digest Condensed Books: The Last Juror • The Various Haunts of Men • The Codex • Life and Limb (2004) 15 exemplaires
Reader's Digest Select Editions: The Ghost / Sacrifice / The Man in the Picture / Power Play (2008) 13 exemplaires
Reader's Digest Select Editions: The Last Juror | The Various Haunts of Men | The Codex | The Curious Incident of the… (2004) — Auteur — 5 exemplaires
Reader's Digest Select Editions: Crossfire | Heaven's Keep | The Shadows in the Street | Stillwater Creek — Contributeur — 4 exemplaires
Reader's Digest: De getuige; Lieve John; Het Venetiaanse masker; Roerloos — Auteur — 3 exemplaires
The Amateur: and Other Modern Stories (English Language Learning: Reading Scheme) (1979) — Contributeur — 1 exemplaire
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Nom canonique
- Hill, Susan
- Nom légal
- Hill, Susan Elizabeth
- Date de naissance
- 1942-02-05
- Sexe
- female
- Nationalité
- UK
- Pays (pour la carte)
- England, UK
- Lieu de naissance
- Scarborough, North Yorkshire, England, UK
- Lieux de résidence
- Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, England, UK
Gloucestershire, England, UK
Coventry, Warwickshire, England, UK - Études
- King's College, London
Scarborough Convent School
Barr's Hill Grammar School, Coventry - Professions
- fiction writer
editor - Relations
- Wells, Stanley (husband)
Gove, Michael (friend) - Prix et distinctions
- Order of the British Empire (Commander, 2012)
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Discussions
BRITISH AUTHOR CHALLENGE JANUARY - HILL AND UNSWORTH à 75 Books Challenge for 2016 (Février 2016)
Critiques
The Various Haunts Of Men: Simon Serrailler Book 1 par Susan Hill
Freya Graffham is an extremely likeable Police officer, who's moved to a cathedral town to get away from the unwonted pressures of London life. She gets stuck into her local community, gets her teeth into a case or two, and develops a bit of a crush on DI Simon Serrailler, who is only a bit part in this story, really. This is an involving, believable story, and only its ending disappoints. Not because it's not a well-conceived and well-written one, but because ..... (spoiler alert)
Long before “working from home” was a phrase people bandied about, Susan Hill decided to spend a year just reading books she already had lying around the house. “Attacking the TBR pile”, as we would put it. Except that she was mixing in a fair proportion of re-reads: the main principle seemed to be to follow her nose and the quasi-random patterns in which books had settled in different parts of her home. And of course this isn’t just a collection of book reviews, she drifts off engagingly into memories from her long career as an author, broadcaster and publisher. Her first novel was published when she was still in her teens, and she’s been in the literary scene long enough to have baby-sat Arnold Wesker’s children and have E M Forster drop a book on her toe in the London Library, so she knew a lot of the writers she is talking about here, and many of them were evidently friends. But she seems to be quite capable of separating the books from the people: V S Naipaul, for example, seems to have been rude to her the one time they met, but she still praises him as one of the best prose-writers of his generation.
A fun little book, which comes with a serious risk of encouraging you to buy more books, even if it doesn’t make you disarrange your home library to increase the serendipity factor…… (plus d'informations)
A fun little book, which comes with a serious risk of encouraging you to buy more books, even if it doesn’t make you disarrange your home library to increase the serendipity factor…… (plus d'informations)
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thorold | 78 autres critiques | Apr 2, 2024 |
thorold | 78 autres critiques | Apr 2, 2024 | 
Generally as good as the usual installment in this series, but a couple of plot lines are a little rough to read, and some of the characters still need a good kick in the pants for acting like children.
Interesting, kept me reading. She presents a large number of characters, makes them a bit sympathetic and then mows them down. It’s a bit confusing that this is the first in the Simon Serallier series , as he barely appears. I found the ending a bit of a letdown
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