The Orphan Choir

Published by Hammer, a terrifying ghost story from Sophie Hannah, the Sunday Times bestselling author of Kind of Cruel, A Room Swept White and Little Face. If you were chilled by The Woman in Black, you will be haunted by this.

Warning: This book is scary. If ghost stories are your thing, you will absolutely love it.

a tense mental journey ... Deft and compelling, The Orphan Choir delivers a chilling gut punch

an old-fashioned horror story, given a modern spin by the likeable narrator. It has a creepy cinematic feel and races along to its frightening ending

a tense and thrilling read, employing the fast pace and great character building that we have come to expect from Sophie Hannah. Her fans will not be disappointed.

an enjoyable creepy read  with the psychological depth that Sophie Hannah is known for

this bestselling writer knows how to pile on the tension ... and her ending is chillingly, memorably disturbing

Sophie Hannah is a genius at creating and building tension and this book is no different.

a beautifully constructed, atmospheric chiller which I highly recommend

Her trademark precision-layered structure creates a multi-dimensional maze that holds at its centre a revelation which is truly hair-raising

Cool, calculating and utterly chilling… to be gulped down with all the lights on and someone to grab when the sense of menace grows too great.

Sophie Hannah has quickly established herself as a doyenne of the 'home horror' school of psychological tension, taking domestic situations and wringing from them dark, gothic thrills.

Hannah is a master of intense psychological thrillers . . . Full of twists and turns, and terrifying, too.

She grips from start to finish - a grip which held me against my will because the sustained atmosphere of mild hysteria is hard to take . . . I couldn't put it down.

Sophie Hannah is the internationally bestselling author of eight psychological thrillers, the most recent of which is The Carrier. Her crime novels featuring Simon Waterhouse and Charlie Zailer have been published in more than 25 countries, and adapted for ITV1 as Case Sensitive, starring Olivia Williams and Darren Boyd. In 2012, Sophie's novel Kind of Cruel was shortlisted for the Specsavers National Book Awards Crime Thriller of the Year, and in 2007 she was shortlisted for the TS Eliot Prize for her latest poetry collection, Pessimism for Beginners. She is a Fellow Commoner of Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge, and her website is www.sophiehannah.com.

Louise's seven year old son has been sent away to boarding school against her wishes, and she misses him desperately. 
 
And her neighbour from hell is keeping her awake at night by playing loud, intrusive music. 
 
So when the chance comes to move to the country, she jumps at it as a way of saving her sanity. Only it doesn't. 
 
Because the music has followed her. Except this time, it's choral music sung by a choir of children only she can see and hear ...

Selected Poems

Selected Poems by Sophie Hannah - A revised and updated second edition of the T.S. Eliot shortlisted author 
 
Since publishing her first book, Sophie Hannah has been recognized as one of the most important poets writing in Britain. Chosen in 1999 by The Times as the 'New Writer to Watch' and by the Daily Telegraph as one of the 'Stars of the New Millenium', she has published five bestselling collections, and this is the only selection covering the breadth of her work. 
 
This revised edition now includes work from Hannah's most recent volume, Pessimism for Beginners, which was shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize, as well as several new poems. 
 
'Hannah is among the best at comprehending in rhyming verse the indignity of having a body and the nobility of having a heart' Guardian 
 
'Shall I put it in captials? SOPHIE HANNAH IS A GENIUS' Poetry Review 
 
'A wonderful Poet' Observer 
 
'Hannah's range is astonishn: most readers will come away having been changed or delighted' Daily Telegraph 
 
'A shrewd and accurate observer of the world around her, and her own life, she is often very funny' Oldie 
 
A revised and updated second edition of Sophie Hannah's poems. As well as all the poems from the previous book, it includes a selection from Pessimism for Beginners, which was shortlisted for the 2007 T. S. Eliot Prize, and nine new poems, previously unpublished. 
 
Sophie Hannah was born in Manchester in 1971, and now lives in West Yorkshire. She has published four collections of poetry and is a regular performer of her own work. In 1995 she won an Eric Gregory Award for her first poetry book, The Hero and the Girl Next Door, and in 1996 she won an Arts Council Award for her second collection, Hotels Like Houses. In June 2004, her fourth poetry book, First of the Last Chances, was chosen for the Poetry Book Society's 'Next Generation' promotion.Sophie also writes fiction and won first prize in the 2004 Daphne Du Maurier Festival short story competition. In May 2007, Sort of Books will publish her first collection of short stories. Her latest novel, Little Face, is published by Hodder &amp; Stoughton.

As well as five collections of poetry, Sophie Hannah is the author of six internationally bestselling psychological thrillers, published in over twenty languages. 
A native of Manchester, she now lives with her husband and children in Cambridge, where she is a Fellow Commoner at Lucy Cavendish College.

Since her first collection was published in 1995, Sophie Hannah has been recognized as one of the best young poets on the scene. As the Daily Telegraph put it, 'Her range is astonishing: most readers will come away having been changed or delighted.' This second edition of her Selected Poems retains all the poems from the first edition, together with a full selection from her 2007 volume Pessimism for Beginners, which was shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize, and nine recently written and as yet unpublished poems.

Sophie Hannah

Sophie Hannah is among the best at comprehending in rhyming verse the indignity of having a body and the nobility of having a heart

'It's the way that you say I don't usually do this.' 
 
Romance and poetry seem to go hand in hand but - implicit, explicit, nuanced or starkly frank - sex itself has long been a staple subject for poets. 
 
And little has changed over the centuries, from Ovid describing a summer afternoon of love-making to Rosemary Tonks telling the Story of a Hotel Room. 
 
Sophie Hannah's selection ranges from ancient Rome to modern New York, from gay to straight, from marital bliss to furtive adultery, but her principle has been to go low on the sugar and high on the excitement.

Sophie Hannah

Praise for The Poetry of Sex

Sophie Hannah is among the best at comprehending in rhyming verse the indignity of having a body and the nobility of having a heart

Books by Sophie Hannah

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