The Various Haunts Of Men

Susan Hill has won both the Whitbread and Somerset Maugham Awards and been shortlisted for the Booker Prize, as well as winning a Smarties prize for one of her children's books. Her most recent publications are the much-praised collection of short stories The Boy Who Taught the Beekeeper to Read, and the bestselling crime novels, The Various Haunts of Men, The Pure in Heart and The Risk of Darkness. She wrote Mrs de Winter, the sequel to Rebecca, and the ghost story, The Woman in Black, which was adapted for the stage and has been running in London for more than eighteen years.Susan hill is married to the Shakespeare scholar, Stanley Wells, and they have two daughters. She lives in Gloucestershire where she runs her own small publishing firm, Longbarn Books.