Sarah Hall

*WINNER OF THE BBC NATIONAL SHORT STORY AWARD 2020*SHORTLISTED FOR THE EDGE HILL SHORT STORY PRIZESHORTLISTED FOR THE JAMES TAIT BLACK MEMORIAL PRIZE A Guardian, Financial Times and Irish Times Book of the YearThe queen of dark short fiction.GuardianAstonishing, miraculous, a gift. Daisy JohnsonThe best short story writer in Britain.Spectator In Turkish forests or rain-drenched Cumbrian villages, characters walk, drive, dream and fly, trying to reconcile themselves with their journey through life and death. Radical, charged with a transformative, elemental power, each of these stories invites us to stand at the very edge of our possible selves. Includes the story The Grotesques, winner of the BBC Short Story Award, 2020.

Fierce and sensuous.GuardianExquisitely crafted.Sunday TelegraphAstonishing . . . A writer of rare vision and talent.Sunday Times From the speed and heat of summer London, to the heathered fells and lowlands of Cumbria with their history of smouldering violence, to an eerily still lake in the Finnish wilderness, Sarah Hall evokes landscapes with extraordinary precision and grace. The characters within these territories are real-life survivors, but whether its a frustrated housewife seeking extreme experience or a young woman contemplating the death of her lover, dark devices and desires rise to the surface. And the human body, too - flawed, visceral, and full of emotional conflict - provides a sensuous frame for each unfolding drama. Uniquely disturbing and deeply erotic, this collection confirms Sarah Hall as one of the greatest writers of her generation.

One of the finest writers at work today.Damon GalgutA writer of show-stopping genius.GuardianSo vivid, so visceral, so vital. Val McDermid For almost a decade Rachel Caine has turned her back on home and worked in Idaho at a reservation for wolves. As one of the few experts in her field she is summoned back to England by the eccentric Earl of Annerdale to help with his plan for re-wilding wolves on his estate in the Lake District. As Rachel attempts a gradual reconciliation with her estranged family, her work with the Earl begins to generate public outrage and the threat of sabotage. Set against a backdrop of Scottish independence and tumultuous power struggles both locally and nationally, The Wolf Border is a novel steeped in wilderness and wildness, both animal and human.A graceful, visceral, utterly compelling read.Sunday Express magazineA thrilling tale of politics and power . . . Compulsively absorbing and masterfully plotted, it confirms Hall as one of our finest fiction writers.Daily MailA compelling, psychological drama . . . [Hall] has a golden touch.The Economist

An electrifying story of passion, connection and transformation from a writer of show-stopping geniusGuardian.Dark and brilliant.SARAH MOSSA masterpiece.DAISY JOHNSONExtraordinary.SARAH PERRYSearing . . . Sarah Halls best work yet. JON McGREGOROne of the best books of the year. TELEGRAPHHall has set a bar . . . Finely wrought, intellectually brave and emotionally honest.THE SCOTSMAN In the bedroom above her immense studio at Burntcoat, the celebrated sculptor Edith Harkness is making her final preparations. The symptoms are well known: her life will draw to an end in the coming days. Downstairs, the studio is a crucible glowing with memories and desire. It was here, when the first lockdown came, that she brought Halit. The lover she barely knew. A presence from another culture. A doorway into a new and feverish world.Sarah Hall makes language shimmer and burn . . . One of the finest writers at work today.DAMON GALGUTWonderful . . . The writing goes down smoking hot onto the page.ANDREW MILLERTransporting . . . A beautiful novel, full of heat and darkness.AVNI DOSHII can think of no other British writer whose talent so consistently thrills, surprises and staggers . . . With Burntcoat she has solidified her status as the literary shining light we lesser souls aspire to. BENJAMIN MYERS

Faber Stories, a landmark series of individual volumes, presents masters of the short story form at work in a range of genres and styles. Walking ahead of him on the heath, his wife turns to look at him over her shoulder, Topaz eyes glinting. Scorched face. Vixen. In language harvested from nature, Sarah Hall tells a story of metamorphosis, of wildness and fecundity, and of a man reaching for reason, who cannot let go of the creature he loves.

*WINNER OF THE BBC NATIONAL SHORT STORY AWARD 2020*SHORTLISTED FOR THE EDGE HILL SHORT STORY PRIZE 2018 LONGLISTED FOR THE GORDON BURN PRIZE 2018 WINNER OF THE EAST ANGLIAN BOOK AWARD FOR FICTIONWINNER OF AN O.HENRY PRIZE FOR SHORT FICTION She is running and becoming smaller, running and becoming smaller, running in the light of the reddening sun, the red of her hair and her coat falling, the red of her fur and her body loosening. Running. Holding behind her a sudden, brazen object, white-tipped. Her yellow scarf trails in the briar. All vestiges shed. Sarah Hall is an exquisite chronicler of landscapes - rural, industrial, psychological - and these haunting stories reveal a writer at the peak of her powers. Rich in the mythic symbolism of wilderness and wasteland, these tales blur the natural and urban, mundane and surreal, human and animal. Written in Halls lyrical prose, this uncannily disturbing collection glitters with poetic and erotic imagery. Marked by a fascination with the intimacy of nature - and the nature of intimacy - Madame Zero is a stunning new collection from an author twice nominated for the Booker Prize.

Sex and death are two of the most powerful, exhilarating and terrifying forces that define and shape the human experience. In this provocative and haunting collection of short stories edited by two masters of the form, some of todays most compelling writers from around the globe - including Kevin Barry, Yiyun Li, Ben Marcus, Jon McGregor, Taiye Selasi and Ali Smith - explore these challenging themes with honesty, empathy and psychological acuity, in stories that are utterly dazzling.

She turns her head and smiles. Something is wrong with her face. The bones have been recarved. Her lips are thin and her nose is a dark blade. Teeth small and yellow. The lashes of her hazel eyes have thickened and her brows are drawn together, an expression he has never seen, a look that is almost craven. Mrs Fox is the story of a husband who is shocked out of his complacency when his wife undergoes a remarkable transformation. "The poetic use of language, the dexterity and originality of the prose made Sarah Halls Mrs Fox utterly unique," Mariella Frostrup

Italy in the early 1960s: a dying painter considers the sacrifices and losses that have made him an enigma, both to strangers and those closest to him. He begins his last life painting, using the same objects he has painted obsessively for his entire career - a small group of bottles. In Cumbria 30 years later, a landscape artist - and admirer of the Italian recluse - finds himself trapped in the extreme terrain that has made him famous. And in present-day London, his daughter, an art curator struggling with the sudden loss of her twin brother while trying to curate an exhibition about the lives of the twentieth-century European masters, is drawn into a world of darkness and sexual abandon. Covering half a century, this is a luminous and searching novel, and Halls most accomplished work to date.

¿En qué nos parecemos a los lobos? Rachel Caine lleva diez años estudiando y protegiendo las manadas de lobos en una reserva india de Idaho, una labor absorbente que limita su vida personal a escasas amistades y a relaciones esporadicas. Todo va a cambiar cuando recibe una interesante oferta de uno de los hombres mas ricos del Reino Unido, el duque de Annerdale; un excentrico aristocrata de Cumbria, tierra natal de Rachel, que pretende reintroducir el lobo gris en los campos britanicos.Es el proyecto mas ambicioso y atractivo al que se ha enfrentado, aunque el regreso a Cumbria supondra para Rachel el reencuentro con una madre problematica y excentrica, que ha condicionado la historia de su particular familia, asi como implicarse, mas alla de lo previsible, en el cuidado de la vida salvaje en la reserva y de la vida inesperada que se va abriendo paso en su interior. La vuelta de los lobos despierta en la region temores atavicos, viejos mitos y arcaicas supersticiones que se traducen en protestas y presiones, sobre el trasfondo de un marco politico convulso por el proceso de independencia de la vecina Escocia.En "La frontera del lobo", Sarah Hall, considerada por la revista "Granta" como una de las mejores voces de la literatura inglesa del momento, describe con una inusual belleza la vida y el comportamiento de los lobos, asi como el espectacular paisaje que los rodea, convertido en espejo de nuestra propia naturaleza interior, de los lazos que se rompen y se asientan, de nuestras identidades reales o imaginarias... Una alegoria que indaga, mientras el lector avanza con paso seguro en el relato, en la complejidad de la existencia, tanto animal como humana, y en el limite difuso entre la vida salvaje y la civilizacion, dentro y fuera de cada uno de nosotros.Hall evoca sus paisajes con una prosa viva y cautivadora. Una novela con estilo, inteligente y muy amena; de una gran belleza.The Sunday Times¿En qué nos parecemos a los lobos? Rachel Caine lleva diez años estudiando y protegiendo las manadas de lobos en una reserva india de Idaho, una labor absorbente que limita su vida personal a escasas amistades y a relaciones esporadicas. Todo va a cambiar cuando recibe una interesante oferta de uno de los hombres mas ricos del Reino Unido, el duque de Annerdale; un excentrico aristocrata de Cumbria, tierra natal de Rachel, que pretende reintroducir el lobo gris en los campos britanicos.Es el proyecto mas ambicioso y atractivo al que se ha enfrentado, aunque el regreso a Cumbria supondra para Rachel el reencuentro con una madre problematica y excentrica, que ha condicionado la historia de su particular familia, asi como implicarse, mas alla de lo previsible, en el cuidado de la vida salvaje en la reserva y de la vida inesperada que se va abriendo paso en su interior. La vuelta de los lobos despierta en la region temores atavicos, viejos mitos y arcaicas supersticiones que se traducen en protestas y presiones, sobre el trasfondo de un marco politico convulso por el proceso de independencia de la vecina Escocia.En "La frontera del lobo", Sarah Hall, considerada por la revista "Granta" como una de las mejores voces de la literatura inglesa del momento, describe con una inusual belleza la vida y el comportamiento de los lobos, asi como el espectacular paisaje que los rodea, convertido en espejo de nuestra propia naturaleza interior, de los lazos que se rompen y se asientan, de nuestras identidades reales o imaginarias... Una alegoria que indaga, mientras el lector avanza con paso seguro en el relato, en la complejidad de la existencia, tanto animal como humana, y en el limite difuso entre la vida salvaje y la civilizacion, dentro y fuera de cada uno de nosotros.Hall evoca sus paisajes con una prosa viva y cautivadora. Una novela con estilo, inteligente y muy amena; de una gran belleza.The Sunday Times

For almost a decade Rachel Caine has turned her back on home, kept distant by family disputes and her work monitoring wolves on an Idaho reservation. But now, summoned by the eccentric Earl of Annerdale and his controversial scheme to reintroduce the Grey Wolf to the English countryside, she is back in the peat and wet light of the Lake District. The earls project harks back to an ancient idyll of untamed British wilderness - though Rachel must contend with modern-day concessions to health and safety, public outrage and political gain - and the return of the Grey after hundreds of years coincides with her own regeneration: impending motherhood, and reconciliation with her estranged family. The Wolf Border investigates the fundamental nature of wilderness and wildness, both animal and human. It seeks to understand the most obsessive aspects of humanity: sex, love, and conflict; the desire to find answers to the question of our existence; those complex systems that govern the most superior creature on earth.

The world has changed. War rages in South America and China, and Britain - now entirely dependent on the US for food and energy - is run by an omnipresent dictatorship known simply as The Authority. Assets and weapons have been seized, and women are compulsorily fitted with contraceptive devices. This is Sister''s story of her attempt to escape the repressive regime - from the confines of her Lancaster prison cell she tells of her search for The Carhullan Army, a quasi-mythical commune of ''unofficial'' women rumoured to be living in a remote part of Cumbria.

Italy in the early 1960s: a dying painter considers the sacrifices and losses that have made him an enigma, both to strangers and those closest to him. He begins his last life painting, using the same objects he has painted obsessively for his entire career - a small group of bottles. Italy in the early 1960s: a dying painter considers the sacrifices and losses that have made him an enigma, both to strangers and those closest to him. He begins his last life painting, using the same objects he has painted obsessively for his entire career - a small group of bottles. In Cumbria 30 years later, a landscape artist - and admirer of the Italian recluse - finds himself trapped in the extreme terrain that has made him famous. And in present-day London, his daughter, an art curator struggling with the sudden loss of her twin brother while trying to curate an exhibition about the lives of the twentieth-century European masters, is drawn into a world of darkness and sexual abandon. Covering half a century, this is a luminous and searching novel, and Hall''s most accomplished work to date.

Walking ahead of him on the heath, his wife turns to look at him over her shoulder, 'Topaz eyes glinting. Scorched face. Vixen.'In language harvested from nature, Sarah Hall tells a story of metamorphosis, of wildness and fecundity, and of a man reaching for reason, who cannot let go of the creature he loves.

An electrifying story of passion, connection and transformation from 'a writer of show-stopping genius' (Guardian).'Dark and brilliant.' SARAH MOSS'A masterpience.' DAISY JOHNSON'Extraordinary.' SARAH PERRY'Hall has set a bar . . . Finely wrought, intellecutally brave and emotionally honest.'THE SCOTSMAN

El estado de la nación ha cambiado. Con la mayoría del país inundado, los recursos controlados por el gobierno, y guerras en curso en Sudamerica y en China, Inglaterra está irreconocible. En este mundo de precariedad y extenuante trabajo industrial, la Autoridad insiste en que todas las mujeres lleven dispositivos de contracepcion. Hermana nos cuenta su historia desde su celda: como soño con escapar a una comuna de mujeres que viven en Carhullan, una granja fortificada en las remotas colinas de Cumbria, y como esa huida no fue mas que el inicio de su lucha.

You were the last one here, before I closed the door of Burntcoat. Before we all closed our doors. In the bedroom above her immense studio at Burntcoat, the celebrated sculptor Edith Harkness is ma

El estado de la nación ha cambiado. Con la mayoría del país inundado, los recursos controlados por el gobierno, y guerras en curso en Sudamérica y en China, Inglaterra está irreconocible. En este mundo de precariedad y extenuante trabajo industrial, la Autoridad insiste en que todas las mujeres lleven dispositivos de contracepcion. Hermana nos cuenta su historia desde su celda: como soño con escapar a una comuna de mujeres que viven en Carhullan, una granja fortificada en las remotas colinas de Cumbria, y como esa huida no fue mas que el inicio de su lucha.Un testimonio del triunfo del individuo en circunstancias extremas, y una novela de extraordinaria imaginacion y complejidad emocional, " Hijas del Norte " (uno de los cien mejores libros de la decada segun " The Times " ) tiene la intensidad visionaria y la calidad de la gran literatura distopica. Sarah Hall, una de las mejores novelistas jovenes del Reino Unido segun la revista " Granta " , ha ganado en dos ocasiones el Premio Portico, y tambien ha sido galardonada con el Premio Betty Trask, el Premio Commonwealth a la primera novela, el Premio BBC de relato, el Premio John Llewellyn Rhys, el Premio E. M. Forster...