short stories by sophie hannah

Sophie Hannah is an internationally bestselling writer of psychological crime fiction, published in 35 languages and over 50 territories. In 2014 she was commissioned to write a new mystery novel starring Hercule Poirot, Agatha Christie’s famous detective. The Monogram Murders was an international bestseller, reaching the top five in the book charts in more than fifteen countries.

In 2013, Sophie Hannah’s novel, The Carrier, won the Crime Thriller of the Year Award at the Specsavers National Book Awards.  Two of Sophie Hannah’s crime novels, The Point of Rescue, and The Other Half Lives, have been adapted for television and appeared on ITV1 under the series title Case Sensitive in 2011 and 2012.  In 2004, Sophie won first prize in the Daphne Du Maurier Festival Short Story Competition for her suspense story The Octopus Nest, which is published in her first collection of short stories, The Fantastic Book of Everybody’s Secrets (Sort of Books 2008) and as an eStory (Sort of Books 2014).

Sophie Hannah has also published five collections of poetry. Her fifth, Pessimism for Beginners, was shortlisted for the 2007 TS Eliot Award. Her poetry is studied at GCSE, A-level and degree level across the UK. From 1997 to 1999 she was Fellow Commoner in Creative Arts at Trinity College, Cambridge, and between 1999 and 2001 she was a fellow of Wolfson College, Oxford. She is thirty-nine and lives with her husband and children in Cambridge, where she is a Fellow Commoner at Lucy Cavendish College.