Sophie Hannah

Sophie Hannah studied at University of Manchester. The recorded working language is English. The field of work recorded is poetry, children's and young adult literature and detective literature. Distinctions recorded are Eric Gregory Award and Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.

Hannah was born in Manchester, England; her mother is the author Adèle Geras and her father is the political theorist Norman Geras. She attended Beaver Road Primary School in Didsbury and the University of Manchester. From 1997 to 1999 she was Fellow Commoner in Creative Arts at Trinity College, Cambridge, and between 1999 and 2001 a junior research fellow of Wolfson College, Oxford. She was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2024. She lives with her husband and two children in Cambridge, where she is an Honorary Fellow of Lucy Cavendish College.

Hannah participated in the creation of a master's degree in Crime and Thriller Writing at the University of Cambridge, for which she is the main teacher and course director. Hannah also founded and is CEO of, and coach at, Dream Author Coaching Ltd, a coaching programme for writers and/or anyone who wants to write.

• The Mystery of Mr. E, a murder mystery musical

• Little Face (Hodder & Stoughton, 2006) • Hurting Distance (Hodder, 2007); also published as The Truth-Teller's Lie (2010) • The Point of Rescue (Hodder, 2008); also as The Wrong Mother (2009) (adapted for the TV Series Case Sensitive starring Olivia Williams and Darren Boyd) • The Other Half Lives (Hodder, 2009) also as The Dead Lie Down (2009) (adapted for the TV Series Case Sensitive starring Olivia Williams and Darren Boyd) • A Room Swept White (Hodder, 2010) also as The Cradle in the Grave (2011) • Lasting Damage (Hodder, 2011) also as The Other Woman's House (2012) • Kind of Cruel (Hodder, 2012) • The Carrier (Hodder, 2013) • The Telling Error (Hodder, 2014) also as Woman with a Secret (2015) • Pictures Or It Didn’t Happen (Hodder, 2015) also as The Warning: A Short Story (2015) • The Narrow Bed (Hodder, 2016) also as The Next to Die (2019) • The Couple at the Table (Hodder, 2022)

• The Monogram Murders (2014) • Closed Casket (2016) • The Mystery of Three Quarters (2018) • The Killings at Kingfisher Hill (2020) • Hercule Poirot's Silent Night (2023) • The Last Death of The Year (2025)

• Gripless (1999) • Cordial and Corrosive: An Unfairy Tale (2000) • The Superpower of Love (2002)

• The Orphan Choir (Hammer, 2013) • A Game for All the Family (Hodder & Stoughton, 2015) • Did You See Melody? (Hodder & Stoughton, 2017) also as Keep Her Safe (2017) • The Understudy (Hodder & Stoughton, 2019) • Haven't They Grown (Hodder & Stoughton, 2019) also known as Perfect Little Children (2019)

• How to Hold a Grudge (Hodder & Stoughton, 2018) • Happiness, a Mystery: And 66 Attempts to Solve It (Wellcome Collection, 2020) • The Double Best Method (Amazon KDP)

• Carrot the Goldfish, illustrated by Jean Baylis (Hamish Hamilton, 1992) • The Box Room: poems for children (Orchard Books, 2001)

The Swedish-language Moomin picture books were written and illustrated by Tove Jansson. • The Book about Moomin, Mymble and Little My [1952] (Sort of Books, 2001) – new verse translation • Who Will Comfort Toffle? [1960] (Sort of, 2003) – new verse translation • The Dangerous Journey [1977] (Sort of, 2010) – "new verse translation of the third rhyming tale from Moomin Valley"

• The Fantastic Book of Everybody's Secrets (2008) • Something Untoward: Six Tales of Domestic Terror (2012) • The Visitors Book (2015)

• Early Bird Blues (1993) – limited edition pamphlet • Second Helping of Your Heart (1994) – limited edition pamphlet • The Hero and the Girl Next Door (Carcanet Press,1995) • Hotels Like Houses (Carcanet, 1996) • Leaving and Leaving You (Carcanet, 1999) • Love Me Slender: Poems About Love (2000) • First of the Last Chances (Carcanet, 2003) • Selected Poems 2006 • Pessimism for Beginners (Carcanet, 2007) • Marrying the Ugly Millionaire: New and Collected Poems (Carcanet, 2015)

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