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Susan Hill

    5 februari 1942

    Susan Hill creëert verhalen die zich verdiepen in psychologische diepte en spanning, en vaak thema's als eenzaamheid en angst verkennen. Haar proza wordt gekenmerkt door een beknopte maar suggestieve stijl die lezers trekt in de verontrustende werelden van haar personages. Hill bouwt meesterlijk een sfeer op die langzaam afdaalt en een blijvende indruk achterlaat. Haar vermogen om de donkerdere krochten van de menselijke psyche binnen te dringen, onderscheidt haar als een krachtige stem in de spannende literatuur.

    Susan Hill
    The Tale of an Empty House and Other Ghost Stories
    The Minerva Book of Short Stories
    Go Away, Bad Dreams!
    Ghost Stories
    Breaking Glass
    A Savior Is Risen
    • A Savior Is Risen

      • 144bladzijden
      • 6 uur lezen

      A Savior Is Risen is a photo-rich 40-day invitation to shed your worries and let go of busyness as you focus your spirit on Jesus during the Lenten and Easter season.

      A Savior Is Risen
      4,4
    • Ghost Stories

      • 176bladzijden
      • 7 uur lezen

      A collection of short stories both in the contemporary and traditional style. The book includes suggestions for writing and aims to encourage pupils to consider alternative ways of looking at a play or story. It is intended for class use and for GCSE examinations and coursework.

      Ghost Stories
      4,4
    • Go Away, Bad Dreams!

      • 32bladzijden
      • 2 uur lezen

      Tom's mother helps him get rid of his bad dreams one night at a time.

      Go Away, Bad Dreams!
      4,0
    • The Soul of Discretion

      • 385bladzijden
      • 14 uur lezen

      From the outside, the cathedral town of Lafferton seems idyllic, but in many ways it just like any other place. It suffers from the same kinds of crime, is subject to the same pressures from a rapidly changing world, has the same hopes and fears as any number of towns up and down the land.When one day DC Simon Serrailler is called in by Lafferton's new Chief Constable, Kieran Bright, he is met by two plainclothes officers. He is asked to take the principal role in a difficult, potentially dangerous undercover operation and must leave town immediately, without telling anyone - not even his girlfriend Rachel, who has only just moved in with him. Meanwhile, Simon's sister Cat is facing difficult choices at work, as Lafferton's hospice closes its bedded units; and at home, as her daughter is presented with a glittering opportunity that they would struggle afford. And all is not well with Simon and Cat's step-mother, Judith, either. To complete his special op, Simon must inhabit the mind of the worst kind of criminal. This takes its toll on Simon and, as the op unfolds, also on the town and some of its most respected citizens.

      The Soul of Discretion
      4,1
    • A Change of Circumstance

      • 384bladzijden
      • 14 uur lezen

      'Serrailler, Hill's brilliant detective, is the central character in the great writer's crime fiction novels' CAMILLA, DUCHESS OF CORNWALL Simon Serrailler finds himself in devastating new territory as a sophisticated drugs network sets its sights on Lafferton and the surrounding villages DCS Simon Serrailler has long regarded drugs ops in the Lafferton area as a waste of time. Small-time dealers are picked up outside the local secondary school, they're given a fine or a suspended and away they go. And rinse and repeat. But when the body of a young drug addict is found in neighbouring Starly, the case pulls Simon into a whole new way of running drugs. The foot soldiers? Vulnerable local kids like Brookie and Olivia, who will give Simon a bitter taste of this new landscape... 'Hill's Serailler novels are as addictive as Rankin's' SCOTSMAN

      A Change of Circumstance
      4,0
    • Dangerous Faith

      • 208bladzijden
      • 8 uur lezen

      World-changers. Rebels. Rejecters of the status quo. Throughout history, Christians were never meant to have a safe faith. Highlighting people throughout the millennia, Dangerous Faith is a compilation of faith, facts, and art that celebrates the faith lives of spiritual giants and inspires you to grow in your own personal faith.

      Dangerous Faith
      3,9