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| Author | Susan Hill |
|---|---|
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
| Series | Simon Serrailler |
| Publisher | Chatto & Windus |
Publication date | 2 Jun 2005 |
| ISBN | 0-7011-7681-4 |
| Preceded by | The Various Haunts of Men |
| Followed by | The Risk of Darkness |
The Pure in Heart is a novel by Susan Hill. It is the second in a series of seven crime novels which contains The Various Haunts of Men and The Risk of Darkness . [1]
Barbara Wright is a fictional character in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who and a companion of the First Doctor. She was one of the programme's first regulars and appeared in the bulk of its first two seasons from 1963 to 1965, played by Jacqueline Hill. Prior to Hill being cast the part had originally been offered to actress Penelope Lee, who turned the role down. Barbara appeared in 16 stories. In the film version of one of the serials, Dr. Who and the Daleks (1965), Barbara was played by actress Jennie Linden, but with a very different personality and backstory, which includes her being a granddaughter of "Dr Who".
Susan Foreman is a fictional character in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who. The granddaughter of the Doctor and original companion of their first incarnation, she was played by actress Carole Ann Ford from 1963 to 1964, in the show's first season and the first two stories of the second season. Ford reprised the role for the feature-length 20th anniversary episode The Five Doctors (1983) and the 30th anniversary charity special Dimensions in Time (1993).
Susan Bogert Warner, was an American Presbyterian writer of religious fiction, children's fiction, and theological works. She is best remembered for The Wide, Wide World. Her other works include Queechy, The Hills of Shatemuck, Melbourne House, Daisy, Walks from Eden, House of Israel, What She Could, Opportunities, and House in Town. Warner and her sister, Anna, wrote a series of semi-religious novels which had extraordinary sale, including Say and Seal, Christmas Stocking, Books of Blessing, 8 vols., The Law and the Testimony.
Carol Emshwiller was an American writer of avant garde short stories and science fiction who has won prizes ranging from the Nebula Award to the Philip K. Dick Award. Ursula K. Le Guin has called her "a major fabulist, a marvelous magical realist, one of the strongest, most complex, most consistently feminist voices in fiction". Among her novels are Carmen Dog and The Mount. She has also written two cowboy novels called Ledoyt and Leaping Man Hill. Her last novel, The Secret City, was published in April 2007.
Dame Susan Elizabeth Hill, Lady Wells is an English author of fiction and non-fiction works. Her novels include The Woman in Black, which has been adapted in multiple ways, The Mist in the Mirror, and I'm the King of the Castle, for which she received the Somerset Maugham Award in 1971. She also won the Whitbread Novel Award in 1972 for The Bird of Night, which was also shortlisted for the Booker Prize.
Susan Wittig Albert, also known by the pen names Robin Paige and Carolyn Keene, is an American mystery writer from Vermilion County, Illinois, United States. Albert was an academic and the first female vice president of Southwest Texas State University before retiring to become a fulltime writer.
The Time Travellers is a BBC Books original novel written by Simon Guerrier. It is based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who, and features the First Doctor, his Granddaughter Susan Foreman, and her two Coal Hill School teachers Barbara Wright and Ian Chesterton.
Strange Meeting is a novel by Susan Hill about the First World War. The title of the book is taken from a poem by the First World War poet Wilfred Owen. The novel was first published by Hamish Hamilton in 1971 and then by Penguin Books in 1974.
The Bird of Night is a 1972 novel by Susan Hill.
The Enclosure (1961) is a novel by Susan Hill. Hill wrote the novel when she was 15 years old.
Mrs de Winter is a novel by Susan Hill published in 1993. It is a sequel to the novel Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier.
In the Springtime of the Year is a 1973 novel by Susan Hill. Hill has stated that the book was inspired by the sudden death from a heart attack of her fiance, David Lepine, an organist at Coventry Cathedral, and thus is, in terms of emotional content at least, semi-autobiographical.
The Mist in the Mirror: A Ghost Story is a novel by Susan Hill. The novel is about a traveller called Sir James Monmouth and his pursuit of an explorer called Conrad Vane.
The Various Haunts of Men (2004) is a novel by Susan Hill. It is the first in a series of seven "Simon Serrailler" crime novels by the author. It concerns the disappearance of people in the English cathedral town of Lafferton and the resulting police investigations.
The Risk of Darkness is a novel by Susan Hill. It is the third novel in the "Simon Serrailler" crime series.
The Vows of Silence is a novel by Susan Hill. It is the fourth in a series of "Simon Serrailler" crime novels.
The Beacon, is a novel by English author Susan Hill, first published in 2008 by Chatto and Windus and in paperback the following year by Vintage Books.
The Small Hand: A Ghost Story, is a novel by English author Susan Hill, first published in 2010 by Profile Books. A television film adaptation, Susan Hill's Ghost Story, was broadcast by Channel 5 in December 2019.
From the Heart, is a coming of age - and coming out novel by Susan Hill, published in March 2017 by Chatto and Windus.
The Service of Clouds, is a novel by the English author Susan Hill, first published in 1998 by Chatto & Windus. It takes it title from a passage in John Ruskin describing the supremacy of cloud in modern landscape painting.