Sophie Hannah Books in Order

Bobby and his grandmother enjoy playing tricks on each other. When floating carrot peel looks remarkably like a goldfish, Bobby sees the makings of an April Fool's joke in this illustrated story for young readers.

These poems use rhyme and regular meter to examine urban life, romance, and everyday pleasures. Shopping, meals, and relationships become occasions for wit, while surreal touches complicate apparently straightforward observations about how people live and feel.

This poetry collection examines love, desire, loss, and the gap between people's self-images and others' perceptions. Traditional verse forms carry comic observations about modern life, including the frustrations of learning to drive and owning a car.

At a drama school preparing its annual production, writing teacher Belinda becomes fascinated by the enigmatic outsider Tony Lamb. His arrival unsettles staff and students, exposing complicated desires and loyalties beneath the school's theatrical activity.

Exploring love, separation, and loss, these poems consider the many ways people matter to one another. The collection combines traditional verse structures with forms associated with modernism, examining emotional connections that can sustain or damage relationships.

After repeated disappointments in his job search, Sebastian is shortlisted for a prestigious position. His wife intervenes to improve his prospects, only to uncover troubling questions about the opportunity and the people controlling the appointment.

Sixty poems follow the pleasures, disappointments, and contradictions of falling in and out of love. Hannah uses traditional verse structures and wit to examine romantic attachment, combining emotional involvement with skeptical distance from lovers' familiar assumptions.

Written for children, these rhyming poems play with the idea of boxes and the different things they can contain. Everyday objects and imaginative comparisons create a collection designed for young readers beginning to explore poetry independently.

Television editor Sim Purdy tries to hold her longtime circle of friends together as relationships begin to fracture. Her interventions in other people's romances expose concealed resentments, divided loyalties, and difficulties she is reluctant to acknowledge in her own life.

These poems explore strong emotions in relationships, work, marriage, and motherhood through traditional forms and rhyme. The collection includes A Woman's Life and Loves, a sequence conceived as a contemporary feminist response to Schumann's song cycle.

Six stories bring together writers associated with Leeds and West Yorkshire, including Simon Armitage, Joolz Denby, and Sophie Hannah. The anthology gathers work from poets and novelists rather than presenting a single author's connected narrative.

Returning home after two hours away, Alice Fancourt insists the infant in the nursery is not her daughter. Her husband's vehement denial leaves police investigating an increasingly disturbing conflict over identity, trust, and the family's concealed history.

This selection brings together poems from Hannah's earlier collections. The revised edition adds work from Pessimism for Beginners and previously unpublished poems, extending her exploration of relationships and contemporary life through rhyme, formal invention, and humor.

When Naomi Jenkins's married lover disappears, police doubt her fears because his wife says he is not missing. Desperate to prompt an investigation, Naomi invents an accusation that draws on an experience she has kept secret.

Using rhyme and regular meter, these poems examine modern relationships with humor, tenderness, and occasional cruelty. Love, disappointment, and anxious expectations become subjects for verbal play and emotional scrutiny in a collection attentive to everyday contradictions.

Ordinary relationships conceal disturbing obsessions in these short stories. A stranger repeatedly appears in holiday photographs, a figure hides outside a house, and other unsettling encounters expose secrets whose discovery carries a cost for those involved.

Sally Thorning recognizes the name of a man she met during a secret holiday when his wife and daughter are reported dead. The photograph shown on television depicts a stranger, leaving Sally questioning who her lover really was.

Ruth Bussey's boyfriend Aidan confesses that he once murdered a woman named Mary Trelease. Ruth knows someone with that name who is still alive, drawing detectives into a puzzle shaped by troubled histories and an apparently impossible confession.

Producer Fliss Benson receives a cryptic numbered card while beginning a documentary about mothers wrongly accused of killing their babies. When one of its subjects is murdered with an identical card, the project becomes a police investigation.

Connie Bowskill sees a blood-covered body during an online property tour, but it vanishes when her husband checks the screen. Her insistence that she witnessed a murder opens unsettling questions about the house and her own marriage.

Seeking help for insomnia, Amber Hewerdine repeats a mysterious phrase under hypnosis. Within hours she is arrested in connection with a woman she does not know, making a fragment of inaccessible memory central to a murder inquiry.

An overnight flight delay forces Gaby Struthers to share a hotel room with a distressed stranger. Lauren knows disturbing details about Gaby's life and insists the man Gaby loves is innocent of the murder he has confessed to.

A frightened woman tells Hercule Poirot she expects to be murdered and begs him not to punish her killer. Three hotel deaths involving monogrammed cufflinks soon draw him into a case that may be connected to her warning.

Distressed by her son's absence at boarding school and a neighbor's loud music, Louise moves to the countryside seeking peace. Instead, she hears a children's choir that nobody else can perceive, turning escape into a disturbing new ordeal.

Edited by Sophie Hannah, this anthology gathers poems about desire and sexual experience across centuries and cultures. Writers from Catullus and Shakespeare to Walt Whitman and Carol Ann Duffy explore pleasure, uncertainty, disappointment, and the consequences of intimacy.

Nicki Clements repeatedly drives past the home of a murdered newspaper columnist and cannot explain her behavior to police. A strange message at the crime scene sounds familiar, threatening to expose secrets unrelated to the killing itself.

After moving to Devon, Justine learns that her daughter's supposedly expelled friend has never attended the school. Anonymous threats referencing an unfamiliar shared past deepen the mystery, leaving her struggling to identify the danger facing her family.

Gathering Hannah's previous poetry collections alongside new and uncollected work, this volume surveys her writing in verse. Its poems examine romantic uncertainty and everyday peculiarities through formal structures, humor, and close attention to human contradictions.

After a stranger helps Chloe and her daughter Freya, Chloe seeks him out to express her gratitude. Another woman warns that he is dangerous, leaving Chloe torn between trusting her experience and investigating an unexplained accusation.

Chloe tries to reconnect with the man who rescued her and her daughter from a disastrous situation. A woman's warning that their rescuer is a compulsive liar unsettles her, but curiosity makes simply walking away difficult.

At an Irish house party, Lady Playford announces a will excluding her children in favor of someone near death. Poirot and Inspector Catchpool suspect a dangerous provocation, but a subsequent killing challenges their expectations about the intended victim.

A murderer targets pairs of best friends, giving each victim a small white book beforehand. Comedian Kim Tribbeck realizes she received one too, but her lack of close friends makes her place in the pattern inexplicable.

Four supernatural stories turn ordinary encounters into sources of fear. A boyfriend's visitors book, a child lingering after a birthday party, and unsettling meetings with seemingly familiar people suggest that everyday settings may conceal disturbing presences.

Sophie Hannah selects and introduces one hundred crime stories by women, spanning writers including Agatha Christie, Daphne du Maurier, Val McDermid, and Margaret Atwood. The anthology ranges from traditional mysteries to darker forms of suspense.

Seeking escape at an Arizona resort, Cara Burrows enters the wrong room and glimpses a teenage girl she later recognizes as a famous murder victim. Investigating what she saw puts accepted accounts of the girl's death into doubt.

Scientist Sonia investigates a possible school for her daughter, hoping to escape a classmate's fixation. A pupil offers evidence about a child who fell from a window, linking the mystery to a school production of Wuthering Heights.

Several strangers accuse Poirot of sending letters naming them as murderers of Barnabas Pandy. Poirot wrote none of them and knows nothing of Pandy, prompting an investigation into the accusations and the circumstances of an unexplained death.

This nonfiction guide argues that grudges can preserve useful lessons rather than merely sustain resentment. Hannah combines personal examples and practical exercises to examine grievances, establish boundaries, and decide which memories to retain or release.

At a prestigious London performing-arts academy, four ambitious mothers watch their daughters compete for the spotlight. When a new girl arrives and sinister pranks escalate into real danger, the women must uncover who is targeting the students without exposing their own secrets.

Sophie Hannah approaches happiness as a mystery to investigate, drawing evidence from philosophy, science, self-help and ordinary experience. Personal observations and poems accompany her examination of relationships, boredom and unexpected pleasures that complicate common assumptions about a happy life.

Beth Leeson glimpses an estranged friend with two children who appear exactly as young as they did twelve years earlier. Unable to reconcile what she has seen, Beth investigates a family's apparently impossible secret and the danger it may conceal.

Poirot travels to Kingfisher Hill to investigate a murder while concealing his purpose from the victim's family. A passenger's fear of being killed in a particular coach seat becomes more troubling when another death echoes her warning.

At a couples-only resort, a honeymooner receives a warning about the nearest table, although all the other tables are equally distant. A subsequent murder leaves investigators facing a closed group of suspects who apparently could not have committed it.

A retired postmaster’s murder draws Poirot and Catchpool to Norfolk before Christmas. With a hospital patient’s wife convinced her husband will be the next victim, they must uncover the connection between a mysterious household and the threatened killing.

Edited by Maxim Jakubowski, this anthology assembles twenty-four original crime and suspense stories inspired by Alfred Hitchcock. Established and emerging writers reinterpret the moods, twists, and memorable premises associated with films such as Psycho, Vertigo, North by Northwest, and The Birds.

Poirot and Catchpool arrive on a Greek island for New Year’s Eve, where an unusual community records its resolutions. A body on a terrace exposes hidden purposes and turns their visit into a race to prevent another death.