Sophie Hannah
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Bestselling writer/Founder of /Co-creator of murder mystery musical The Mystery of Mr E:
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Movie news!!! Here is the official Amazon trailer for the movie of my murder mystery musical, ‘The Mystery of Mr. E’ - which will be available exclusively on Amazon Prime from 25 November.
I could not adore this movie more - and all the wonderful cast and crew who made it!
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14-year-old son: ‘Can I go back out & meet my mates again?’
Me: ‘Er, no, it’s after midnight.’
Him: ‘I don’t see why the sun’s position in the sky should affect my social life.’
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Very sad news. Our beloved Brewstie died this morning. Here he is being an amazingly brave boy, just after he first got sick. We loved him so much.
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OMG!! I won the Dagger in the Library Award!! I’m so thrilled!
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Guess who chewed through the WiFi wiring this morning?!
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Cambridge has a wonderful new mystery fiction bookshop! I can’t wait to visit and shop at Bodies in the Bookshop - and am delighted to see ‘The Killings at Kingfisher Hill’ in this blood-red window display!
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Finishing Poirot no 5 in a beautiful Welsh farmhouse, with considerable help from Brewstie!
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We are driving to Cornwall (never done so before) and it’s fascinating - the longer we drive for, the further away Cornwall gets. The Sat Nav keeps adding hours to the journey. I’m expecting it soon to stop showing a number of hours and say instead ‘Ha, ha, you gullible fools!’
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Dog experts: is it normal/fine for a dog to nap flat on its belly like this? Chunk seems to like it!
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This morning, Brewstie grinned his cheeriest grin ever...
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Thanks to Twitter writing-room chat yesterday, I have reclaimed and restored* my attic writing room. This is where I’ll be working from now on.
*cleared a load of teenage party debris out of
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Outdoor heated pool in driving rain - my actual idea of heaven.
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News!!! I’m going to be writing a 5th Poirot novel! To be published 2022!
We're excited to confirm that there will be a new
#Poirot
continuation novel from Sophie Hannah, arriving in 2022! That gives you plenty of time to catch up on the detective's four most recent adventures
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Little known fact: in my first ever Proper Job, I got bollocked when my boss found out I was regularly answering my phone and saying, ‘Detective Lacey, Fourteenth Precinct.’
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First time ever on the Cornwall to London ‘Night Riviera’ train. There’s no sign of any murder mysteries yet, but I’m keeping my eye out for untoward pipe cleaners and charred fragments of notes.
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Husband looking like he just rode into town with some scores to settle…
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Today is officially Brewstie Memorial Day - and the one-year anniversary of his death. He was the best and most loyal and loving of dogs, and is now helping me write my next book in a spiritual and magic way that most people won’t believe in but I do.
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I am biased of course, but I think my husband’s latest artwork is just brilliant!! Cornwall peeps: come along and see it in at his solo exhibition at St Ives Arts Club, 5-8 August!
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Today in
#afewofmyfavouritethings
- this photograph of Brewster sunning himself on our roof terrace! Possibly my favourite photo of him to date.
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Finished Poirot no. 5 at 4 am this morning - so treating myself to a freeeezing cold swim! Still trimming/editing to be done, of course, but…finished!!!
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Beyond thrilled to announce that HTG is **no. 4** in the paperback fiction chart this week! Woohoo and huge thanks to all who have bought/read/enjoyed/supported it!
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Thanks so much - in a big way, seriously - to everyone who has sent nice thoughts and wishes about Brewstie. It has been the hugest help and consolation - Twitter is so brilliant. Today we managed to have a lovely (if slightly tearful) lunch to celebrate my son’s birthday.
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I’m not sure it’s possible to be jollier than I am today! I have...finished my book!!!! Finished it! Handed it in! Now recuperating with Brewstie, husband and mum at a blissful cottage in Essex!
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Today would have been Brewstie’s 10th birthday. Hope he’s celebrating it in heaven with treats and a nice orange rubber ball. ❤️❤️❤️
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Oh my goodness! Number 1 in UK Kindle chart!!! Number actual 1!
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It’s UK Poirot publication day!! Hip hip hooray! There’s nothing I love more than an unguessable (and yet so simple) motive, and there’s deffo one of those in this book…
“I was thrilled to see Poirot in such very, very good hands.”―Gillian Flynn
“Perfect…a pure treat for Agatha Christie fans.”― Tana French
Dive into Poirot's latest investigation in HERCULE POIROT'S SILENT NIGHT by
@sophiehannahCB1
- the perfect read for
@agathachristie
fans 🕯️
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Before and after. First haircut in more than 2 years!
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Off to London for the Nibbies!! I have dressed smartly (because my mum bossed me around and said I should) but I am also wearing (sparkly, to be fair) flip-flops because flip-flops are my religion.
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Publication day today!!
#HaventTheyGrown
by
@sophiehannahCB1
is published today! It's a must-read psychological mystery with a killer opening.
@HodderBooks
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A prize for thrillers in which only men are murdered is insulting to women, men and most great crime writers - my article for
@GuardianBooks
:
cc
@JodieOrton
@valmcdermid
@sarah_hilary
@sscav
- you're all quoted.
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Me: How do you decide whether to make something a post or a story on Instagram?
Daughter: You just know.
Me: But what if you don’t just know?
Her: Then you’re old.
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We ran out of dishwasher tablets, so husband put fairy liquid in dishwasher instead...
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A finished copy of my book about happiness has arrived!! So beautiful, with bumpy key on cover! Out next week. It’s a mystery *and* a self-help book. It contains philosophers, life-coaches, mentions of Poirot, highly grudgeworthy people and more. I really loved writing it!
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In hospital for gallbladder removal (stoney critter, had to go) and first Q they asked when I arrived was: ‘Do you mind a room with a courtyard view?’ I nearly said ‘Does Mr Hurt-His-Head have a room opposite?’ (
#HerculePoirotsSilentNight
)
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I approve of this one million percent. Every school (and home) should have it up on the wall. People way too obsessed with grades.
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Fave moment of the year, almost - arrival of next year’s diary!
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I am BEYOND DELIGHTED to announce that 'The Mystery of Three Quarters' goes into the Sunday Times Top Ten at no. 7, after its first three days sales! Thank you so much to everyone who has bought/supported/enthused!
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First meeting: Chunk and his bro and sis! And we’re on our way back to Cambridge with a chewy rope carrot!
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Important announcement: this stuff is a joy, a delight, a necessity and the best thing ever. Massage it into your temples before bed and...just *amazing* things will happen - relaxation, deep sleep, weird and nice high feeling (aromatherapeutic, not druggy). 10/10.
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I have major news! Thrilling new deal with the incredible
@bedsqpublishers
- 3 books, the first of which is about a family that does the unthinkable!!
#NoOneWouldDoWhatTheLambertsHaveDone
What have the Lamberts done? Find out Spring 2025!
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Home...is where the stunning bound proofs are! A whole box! Win-one Competition to follow shortly...
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Woohoo! Thanks so much to all who bought Poirot (not Mambo) no. 5! It’s number 5 in the Times Hardback Fiction chart today! I’m super chuffed!
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I HAVE FINISHED MY BOOK! Now off to throw myself into a swimming pool. (In a good way.)
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Magpie rules are different at the moment, right? I saw one magpie in one place, then about 200 metres away, ten minutes later, I saw another magpie. That counts as two for joy, because it’s a pair of magpies doing social distancing, I have decided.
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*New Poirot novel jacket*!!! (In case anyone missed it before.) Published in August. ‘The End’ typed at 4 am this morning.
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Dramatic and exciting news! I have a cover reveal for you - for my new thriller, Haven't They Grown, which is out in Jan and available for preorder right now! (I believe there's some other dramatic and exciting news today, but mine has a cool and creepy video!)
We are so thrilled to reveal the cover for
@sophiehannahCB1
's new novel, Haven't They Grown!
Twelve years ago Thomas and Emily were five and three years old. Today they don't look a day older. Why haven't they grown?Publishing 23 January 2020 and available for pre-order now.
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Poirot news alert!
In 2020 the world’s greatest detective returns to solve a fiendish new mystery.
@agathachristie
's ingenious Hercule Poirot returns in
@sophiehannahCB1
's The Killings at Kingfisher Hill:
#KingfisherHill
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In
#afewofmyfavouritethings
today - my favourite shirt I have ever owned, seriously. Based on a Liberty print. Birthday prez - I am 49 today!! Best birthday of life so far because...only one so far to involve lake swimming.
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A particularly exciting
#afewofmyfavouritethings
today - finishing the final draft of a novel! The Killings at Kingfisher Hill is now finished! Today! At approx 7 pm!
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The Mystery Of Three Quarters proof covers have arrived! Complete with shiny gold bits!
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Off to That London to chat to
#GrahamNortonRadioShow
about The Couple at the Table! Can’t wait!
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This is so weird - the consultant who is v kindly sewing up my knee has just finished reading Closed Casket and is now going off to find it so I can sign it!
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It’s exciting announcement time!! So pleased to be doing three more contemporary psych thrillers/Simon & Charlies with the lovely
@Phoebe_A_Morgan
and
@HodderBooks
- four if you count the one that’s due in end of Dec… (panics and runs to laptop…)
I am THRILLED to have signed three new novels from the unstoppable
@sophiehannahCB1
- Sophie is so talented & it’s my honour to work with her. You’re all in for a treat (in fact, several!) ☺️✨
@HodderFiction
@rcwlitagency
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Family holiday in quite probably the most beautiful house/garden I’ve ever seen! (Husband bouncing on trampoline in pic 1!)
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Brewster waits patiently for me to finish my current book. Not long now, Brewster. Handing it in tomorrow before the stroke of midnight!!
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Woohoo! The news is finally out and can be woo-hood about publicly! I am *beyond* excited about this new Miss Marple story collection!
📖📣 We are thrilled to announce a new short story collection starring Agatha Christie's detective Jane Marple. 12 talented writers will reimagine Marple through their own unique perspective while staying true to the hallmarks of a traditional mystery
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This beautiful Ocean Jasper stone is my present/reward to myself for writing 1500 words a day or more since 1 Feb. (Husband’s response, said wistfully, ‘I wish a polished pebble was enough to incentivise me.)
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Made a list of all Agatha’s Poirots - my top fave to my least fave. You may well disagree, and that is *fine*. But I have v good reasons and am happy with my order! This a personal faves league table, not a ‘best to worst’ that makes any claim to objective correctness!
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My favourite character in every box set is the reliable vet/former nurse who you can visit in the middle of the night if you need a bullet digging out of your thigh. They always live in a cabin in the woods and mutter, ‘I’ve done my best but you should really go to a hospital.’
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Who can guess why I’m looking so excited? Am I going a) to an early screening of a not-yet-released movie, b) to Egypt, c) to meet my daughter in London, or d) kind of all of the above?
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I am tired this morning. It is the fault of an *outrageously* gripping not-yet-published thriller. Was supposed to be reading it to advise on which agents to approach, & ended up gasping in suspense till 2 am! Can’t say more now, but a treat is on the way for psych thriller fans.
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‘Once I was seven years old....’ as Lucas Graham sang all those years ago.
Brewstie is 7 today!!! 🥂🍰
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Today in
#afewofmyfavouritethings
- Brewster’s smiley face... He is the most adorable creature (in case I hadn’t mentioned that before.)
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Looks who’s on the 2.03 from Paddington… It’s none other than Poirot, or rather, the bound proof of my fifth book about him, Hercule Poirot’s Silent Night!
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Mes amis!! Thrilled to report that
#TheKillingsatKingfisherHill
is a Sunday Times Top Ten bestseller in its first half-week - no. 8! Thank you sooo much to all who have bought/read/listened/supported it! Am so delighted!
What a busy week for Hercule Poirot!
We are thrilled to congratulate
@sophiehannahCB1
on reaching No.8 in this week’s bestseller list with her new novel
#KingfisherHill
@agathachristie
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Why writing a novel outline matters - a defence of book planning as an essential part of the creative process.
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Forgot how much I love the Contents page of
#MurderOnTheOrientExpress
- just look at that structure!
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Today in
#afewofmyfavouritethings
- drinking tea in Buckden Marina lake after a two-hour swim!
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Delighted to present the UK hardback jacket of The Killings at Kingfisher Hill, my fourth Poirot novel!
This summer the world’s greatest detective returns in
@sophiehannahCB1
's
#KingfisherHill
, and now it's time to reveal the cover!
Find out more and pre-order your copy:
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I’ve always thought (since honeymoon in 2000): one day I’ll swim in Lake Como. Today I did, for the first time. It was terrifying!! Constant massive waves and nearly couldn’t get out. Just goes to show…something. Not sure what!
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Today in
#afewofmyfavouritethings
- my Kindle! Never thought I’d get used to reading on a Kindle, or grow fond of one, but I have, and it’s very useful for reading in bed next to someone who’s asleep and wants the light to be off!
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Husband (usually v laid back and amenable) is refusing to promise that we can get an English Bull Terrier one day. He’s saying things like ‘We’ll see.’ Grr. How can he be in any doubt?! I mean...
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So....my amazing news today is that Haven’t They Grown is a Richard and Judy Book Club pick!!! I could not possibly be more thrilled. And yesterday I chatted to Richard and Judy for an hour (for their podcast) which was ace!
Twelve years ago Thomas and Emily were five and three years old.
Today, the children don’t look a day older. Why haven’t they grown?
Haven't They Grown by
@sophiehannahCB1
is a Richard and Judy Book Club pick, out today in paperback!
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Been to the Agatha Christie offices! Full of beautiful books. (Unsurprising, I know!)
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Brewster and his litter brother
@ChukkaBennett
both get a mention in the current edition of Country Life!
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I’ve just finished this *amazing* crime novel. Wow. Can’t imagine it not being my book of the year. So, so clever, exciting and gripping. The very last twist made me GOL (gasp out loud). Deserves to be a No. 1 bestseller and major Netflix drama or Hollywood movie!
@GillianMAuthor
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Chunk is very confused by me having a bath, but at least he doesn’t bark till I get out, like Brewster used to!
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So, so thrilled that The Couple at the Table is a Top 10 Sunday Times bestseller!
Little bit thrilled about this! The amazing
@sophiehannahCB1
in at no9 in the Sunday Times paperback chart today - hurrah for
#TheCoupleAtTheTable
and thank you to all the thousands of readers who have bought it so far! If you haven’t - what are you waiting for?!
@HodderFiction
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Oh wow - Mystery Of Three Quarters is no 4 in Times (Waterstones) hardback fiction chart! I am a very happy author!
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Always one of the high points of autumn/winter - the arrival of next year’s diary!!
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In Salford v early to do BBC Breakfast! I’ll be discussing how annoying it is that I woke up an hour before my alarm went off, on my one puppy-free night. No, not really. I’ll be discussing my new Poirot book and maybe The Mystery of Mr. E movie if there’s time.
I’m on 8.40-ish!
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If you’re ever the protagonist in a TV drama and someone flat-out refuses (with great hostility) to speak to you or answer your questions, make sure to give them your card. They will *definitely* contact you approx one hour later, eager to tell all. No exceptions.
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Oooh! Bound proofs of The Couple at the Table are clearly out and about! I haven’t seen a copy yet.
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Chunk has been having the best time at his puppy playgroup!
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Just received an email asking if I want to design a range of nail polishes for a brand. I've told them I'm pretty sure they want and not me, but if by any chance they want a frizzy-haired crime writer range of nail varnish, then I'm up for it.
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'The Mystery of Three Quarters' (my new Poirot) is published in hardback TODAY!!
4 letters have arrived, accusing seemingly innocent people of murder. The letters are signed by Hercule Poirot. But why? The Mystery of Quarters is out now 🇬🇧. See
#Poirot
at work in the latest
@sophiehannahCB1
novel:
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Just read a thriller so gripping that I cancelled this morning‘s work in order to finish it: The Holdout by
@MrGrahamMoore
(out Feb 2020). Haven’t been so edge-of-seat, breathlessly gripped since I read ‘Before I Go To Sleep’ by SJ Watson more than a decade ago.
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Chunky went to the beach, got a sandy nose, did some sweeping and remembered his brave Welshie ancestors!
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