Order of Sophie Hannah Books

Sophie Hannah is a British poet and novelist of psychological thriller novels. She was Fellow Commoner in Creative Arts at Trinity College, Cambridge and a junior research fellow at Wolfson College, Oxford. She has won the Daphne du Maurier Festival Short Story Competition for her story The Octopus Nest and has been shortlisted for several other major awards. She writes the Zailer & Waterhouse Mysteries series. Sophie lives in Cambridge with her husband and two children.

Sophie Hannah was first published in 1992 with the picture book Carrot the Goldfish. After that, she went on to publish several poetry collections and then became a novelist in 1999 with a standalone novel entitled Gripless. Below is a list of Sophie Hannah’s books in order of when they were originally released:

Publication Order of Zailer & Waterhouse Mysteries Books

Little Face	(2006)
Hurting Distance / The Truth-Teller's Lie	(2007)
The Wrong Mother / The Point of Rescue	(2008)
The Other Half Lives / The Dead Lie Down	(2009)
A Room Swept White / The Cradle in the Grave	(2010)
Lasting Damage / The Other Woman's House	(2011)
Kind of Cruel	(2012)
The Carrier	(2013)
The Telling Error / Woman with a Secret	(2014)
Pictures or It Didn't Happen	(2015)
The Narrow Bed / The Next to Die	(2016)
The Couple at the Table	(2022)
Pictures or It Didn't Happen is set after The Carrier.

Publication Order of New Hercule Poirot Mysteries Books

The Monogram Murders	(2014)
Closed Casket	(2016)
The Mystery of Three Quarters	(2018)
The Killings at Kingfisher Hill	(2020)

Publication Order of Standalone Novels

Gripless	(1999)
Cordial and Corrosive	(2000)
The Superpower of Love	(2002)
The Orphan Choir	(2014)
A Game for All the Family	(2015)
Keep Her Safe / Did You See Melody?	(2017)
The Understudy (With: B A Paris,Claire Mackintosh,Holly Brown)	(2019)
Perfect Little Children / Haven't They Grown	(2020)

Publication Order of Short Stories/Novellas

The Warning	(2015)
Only Joseph	(2018)

Publication Order of Short Story Collections

Second Helping of Your Heart	(1994)
The Hero and the Girl Next Door	(1995)
Hotels like Houses	(1997)
Leaving and Leaving You	(1999)
First of the Last Chances	(2003)
Leeds Stories 2	(2005)
Pessimism for Beginners	(2007)
The Fantastic Book of Everybody's Secrets	(2008)
Ideas Above Our Station	(2010)
The Poetry of Sex	(2014)
Marrying the Ugly Millionaire	(2015)
The Visitors Book	(2016)

Publication Order of Picture Books

Carrot the Goldfish	(1992)
Early Bird Blues	(1997)
The Box Room	(2002)

Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books

How to Hold a Grudge	(2019)
Happiness, a Mystery: And 66 Attempts to Solve It	(2020)

Publication Order of Collections

Love Me Slender: Poems About Love	(2000)
Selected Poems	(2006)

Publication Order of Anthologies

Hyphen: Anthology of Short Stories by Poets	(2004)
Bonne Route	(2008)
Deadlier	(2017)
Everyday Kindness: A collection of uplifting tales to brighten your day	(2021)

Notes: Hurting Distance was also published under the North American title of The Truth-Teller’s Lie. The Point of Rescue is known in North America as The Wrong Mother. The Other Half Lives was published in North American under the title The Dead Lie Down. A Room Swept White is the UK title of The Cradle in the Grave. Lasting Damage is titled The Other Woman’s House in North America. The Telling Error was also published as Woman with a Secret.

Leeds Stories 2 also contains writing by Simon Armitage, Joolz Denby, Janet Fisher, Char March and Andrea Semple. Bonne Route also includes the work of M.Y. Alam, Alexis Clements, Anthony Cropper, Pippa Griffin, Michael Nath, Dave Pescod, Wayne Price and Paula Rawsthorne. Ideas Above Our Station also includes contributions from M.Y. Alam, Alex Clements, Anthony Cropper, Tania Hershman, Daithidh MacEochaidh, Michael Nath, Paula Rawsthorne and Guy Ware. The Understudy is written with B.A. Paris, Holly Brown and Claire Mackintosh.

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Sophie Hannah Synopsis: The picture book Carrot the Goldfish is Sophie Hannah’s first published work. Bobby and his grandmother enjoy tricking eachother. So when Bobby finds carrot skin on floating in water, he thinks it strongly resembles a goldfish. He gets the idea to play an April Fool’s joke on his Grandma.

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One Response to “Order of Sophie Hannah Books”

1. Justbecuz: 5 years ago

   Hi, there! I’ve just happened across a collection of what is described as “10 Supernatural Short Stories” titled “The Visitors Book” by Sophie Hannah that’s not listed above. I found it in my local Metropolitan Library’s Digital Catalog. It says that it was first made available November 1, 2016. Happy Reading All!

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