Sophie Hannah facts for kids

Sophie Hannah at Hatchards, London, November 2018

Sophie Hannah (born 1971) is a British poet and novelist.

Biography

Sophie Hannah was born in Manchester, England; her father was the academic Norman Geras and her mother is the author Adèle 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 lives with her husband and two children in Cambridge.

Other professional activities

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.

Works

For young children

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

Translations

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"

Poetry collections

• 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)
• Postcard from a Travel Snob

Fiction

• Gripless (1999)
• Cordial and Corrosive: An Unfairy Tale (2000)
• The Superpower of Love (2002)
• Keep Her Safe (2017)

The Waterhouse and Zailer series

1. Little Face (Hodder & Stoughton, 2006)
2. Hurting Distance (Hodder, 2007); also published as The Truth-Teller's Lie (2010)
3. 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)
4. 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)
5. A Room Swept White (Hodder, 2010) also as The Cradle in the Grave (2011)
6. Lasting Damage (Hodder, 2011) also as The Other Woman's House (2012)
7. Kind of Cruel (Hodder, 2012)
8. The Carrier (Hodder, 2013)
9. The Telling Error (Hodder, 2014) also as Woman with a Secret (2015)
10. Pictures Or It Didn’t Happen (Hodder, 2015) also as The Warning: A Short Story (2015)
11. The Narrow Bed (Hodder, 2016) also as The Next to Die (2019)
12. The Couple at the Table (Hodder, 2022)

Hercule Poirot

• 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)

Short story collections

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

Novels

• 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)
• Haven't They Grown (Hodder & Stoughton, 2019) also known as Perfect Little Children (2019)

Non-fiction

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

See also

In Spanish: Sophie Hannah para niños