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Sophie Hannah

@sophiehannah.bsky.social

Bestselling crime writer Coach for writers (dreamauthorcoaching.com) Host of ‘How to Hold a Grudge’ podcast

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In 2017, I wrote a murder mystery musical featuring an appalling school that replaced words, in pupils’ reports, with coloured bands no one understood. Today, OFSTED…announces its new coloured bands system!

10.11.2025 17:24 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Friends! Next year it will 20 years since Little Face, my first Simon & Charlie thriller. Also, the latest S & C mystery, The Opposite of Murder, is publishing late Jan, so…if you’re a bookshop/library/event planner and might want an event late Jan/early Feb, message me!

05.11.2025 11:25 — 👍 6    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 1
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Cheap tiny children!!!

By which I mean, my thriller Haven’t They Grown is currently only 99p on UK Kindle!!

Twelve years ago, Thomas and Emily Braid were 5 and 3 years old.

Today, they look exactly the same. Why haven’t they grown?

www.amazon.co.uk/Havent-They-...

03.11.2025 16:59 — 👍 6    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
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Thrilled to be appearing at the Bloody Barnes Crime Festival on Saturday 8 Feb next year!

03.11.2025 16:08 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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PS - who already knows what their New Year’s Resolution is going to be for next year? Tell me if you want to, and I’ll share mine later today!

23.10.2025 07:06 — 👍 6    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Published today! The Last Death of the Year, and my last book release of the year! Available from all good bookshops (and there’s no such thing as a bad one) and libraries!

Set on New Year’s Eve on a Greek Island!

A New Year’s Resolution game turns murderous…

23.10.2025 06:59 — 👍 5    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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And yes, that is indeed the beautiful paperback cover of Lamberts - isn’t it ace?

14.10.2025 10:28 — 👍 12    🔁 1    💬 2    📌 0
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Amazing bargain opportunity - a stonking 25% off Lamberts paperback at Waterstones if you preorder before 17 Oct!

www.waterstones.com/campaign/oct...

14.10.2025 10:27 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Bound proofs are *in*!!

New Simon & Charlie - out in Jan, pre-orderable now.

Who wants a copy? I might do a competition soon!

21.09.2025 13:28 — 👍 11    🔁 0    💬 3    📌 0

…to kill John, so Isabella would be available again but she leapt in front of bullet and died instead cos she adored John. And that’s why narrator hates John so much!

20.09.2025 08:38 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Right, so…the narrator Rose & Yew Tree says in final para something like ‘I saw it all…’ re Isabella getting shot. My theory is: he literally saw it all. He was there, in same place… Why? I reckon he followed John and Isabella on their travels abroad, cos obsessed with her. He paid someone…

20.09.2025 08:37 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0

You’re v welcome! Will explain re The Rose and The Yew Tree soon, when I have more time!

15.09.2025 11:08 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Finished copies!!! Aren’t they stunning?

05.09.2025 12:14 — 👍 51    🔁 2    💬 5    📌 1

Thank you!

21.08.2025 19:39 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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S8E05 - With special guest Sophie Hannah Podcast Episode · The Honest Authors' Podcast · 07/30/2025 · 1h 36m

Just listened this @honestauthors.bsky.social episode featuring @sophiehannah.bsky.social - such an insightful listen for an aspiring author! Highly recommend for anyone in the #writingcommunity

21.08.2025 13:12 — 👍 5    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
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The hugely talented @authorbarbara.bsky.social (@starinthedark57 on Instagram) has created two stunning copies of Lamberts with little Champ Lamberts painted all over their edges!!

One will definitely be a future competition prize!

15.08.2025 12:34 — 👍 7    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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International Agatha Christie Festival | Opening Event In March, it was announced that Lucy Foley will be writing a new Miss Marple novel. After the success of the 2022 *Marple* book, with twelve new short stories by twelve bestselling female authors, thi...

There are just six tickets remaining for our opening talk of the Literary Festival featuring @sophiehannah.bsky.social and Lucy Foley. They will be chatting about continuing the characters of Poirot and Marple.
www.iacf-uk.org/festival-202...

12.08.2025 15:52 — 👍 5    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0
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Champ Lambert is delighted to announce that he (along with his family who do things no one else would do) is at no. 15 in the UK Amazon Kindle Chart!! He is so thrilled, and asked me to let you all know that his powerful story of fighting injustice is still only 99p in ebook format!

08.08.2025 06:29 — 👍 7    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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Ongoing bargain alert! The Scotsman newspaper recently described Lamberts as ‘a joy’ that ‘demands to be reread’. And it’s still available on UK Kindle for only 99p!

05.08.2025 07:03 — 👍 8    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Currently only 99 p on UK Kindle!

amazon.co.uk/dp/B0DKTQ1PBL

30.07.2025 22:02 — 👍 9    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
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New Poirot bound proofs are in!!

Publishing Oct 24, pre-orderable now!

28.07.2025 08:48 — 👍 15    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
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Writers with big dreams!! I’m doing an online mini-course called:

How to Write a Life-Changing Book

Link below. Just turn up! This session is free! Find out what I mean by ‘life-changing’!

7 pm, Weds 30 July

us02web.zoom.us/j/84717010871?…

Passcode: 260288

27.07.2025 14:04 — 👍 10    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0
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Chuffed to bits to see this ace review of #TheLamberts in The Scotsman:

www.scotsman.com/arts-and-cul...

20.07.2025 14:15 — 👍 7    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Sorry you’ve had to wait so long. Champ Lambert (the dog in the story) says: ‘Hang in there! It’s worth it!’

18.07.2025 16:59 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

She’s fab!

16.07.2025 17:12 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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In which I reveal *all* the goss about my bookshelves and what they contain, in a ‘Sunday Shelfie’ interview with Anna Wharton:

annawharton.substack.com/p/sunday

16.07.2025 08:46 — 👍 7    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 0
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Proofs of American #TheLamberts have landed and could not look more stunning! If there’s such a thing as a perfect book cover, then as far as concerned, this is it! @readlandmark.bsky.social

14.07.2025 13:44 — 👍 6    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Champ Lambert is delighted to announce that the winner of #TheLamberts competition is….

Charlotte Berger 🍾 🍾 🍾

And every single entrant will get an email before Monday, about their free gift, my forthcoming ‘How to Write a Life-Changing Book’ mini course!

11.07.2025 20:07 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Still time to enter!!

10.07.2025 18:33 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 1
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And…again, for American readers, ‘No One Would Do What The Lamberts Have Done’ is *also* preorderable for 25% off at Barnes and Noble from now until Friday!

08.07.2025 19:11 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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