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ⓘ About Sarah Hall
About Sarah Hall A British author of science-fiction and fantasy, Sarah Hall is well known for her imaginative and intelligent genre novels. Providing readers with a real sense of scope and scale, she definitely knows and understands how to capture their attention. Allowing her stories to come alive, she immerses her audience in her world, seeing them lose themselves deeply within it all. Letting her work ostensibly speak for itself, it delivers on every single level, offering an extremely creative perspective and outlook. Saying something unique through her work too, she offers a clear message that underlies all of her work, writing, and fiction.
All Book Series by Sarah Hall
A Good Man Is Hard To Find
Series opener · book 1 of 28 · published 1955 Anthology · Flannery O'Connor
Sonny Liston Was a Friend of Mine
Book 7 of 28 · published 1998 Anthology · Thom Jones
The Shielding of Mrs Forbes
Book 9 of 28 · published 2011 Anthology · Alan Bennett
The Cheater's Guide to Love
Book 10 of 28 · published 2012 Anthology · Junot Díaz
Come Rain or Come Shine
Book 14 of 28 · published 2019 Anthology · Kazuo Ishiguro
Dante and the Lobster
Book 16 of 28 · published 2019 Anthology · Samuel Beckett
The Lydia Steptoe Stories
Book 19 of 28 · published 2019 Anthology · Djuna Barnes
Mary Ventura and The Ninth Kingdom
Book 20 of 28 · published 2019 Anthology · Sylvia Plath
The Forester's Daughter
Book 23 of 28 · published 2019 Anthology · Claire Keegan
Three Types of Solitude
Book 24 of 28 · published 2019 Anthology · Brian W. Aldiss
Intruders
Latest in the series · book 28 of 28 · published 2019 Anthology · Adrian Tomine
The BBC National Short Story Award 2010
Series opener · book 1 of 15 · published 2010 Co-authored · Helen Oyeyemi,David Constantine,Aminatta Forna,Jon McGregor
The BBC National Short Story Award 2011
Book 2 of 15 · published 2011 Anthology · Alison MacLeod,M.J. Hyland,Jon McGregor,K.J. Orr,Sue MacGregor
The BBC International Short Story Award 2012
Book 3 of 15 · published 2012 Anthology · Miroslav Penkov,Carrie Tiffany,Deborah Levy,M.J. Hyland,Clive Anderson,Lucy Caldwell,Henrietta Rose-Innes,Julian Gough,Chris Womersley,Krys Lee,Adam Ross
The BBC National Short Story Award 2013
Book 4 of 15 · published 2013 Co-authored · Lionel Shriver,Lavinia Greenlaw,Lucy Wood
The BBC National Short Story Award 2014
Book 5 of 15 · published 2014 Anthology · Tessa Hadley,Lionel Shriver,Zadie Smith,Rose Tremain,Francesca Rhydderch,Alan Yentob
The BBC National Short Story Award 2015
Book 6 of 15 · published 2015 Anthology · Jeremy Page
BBC National Short Story Award 2016
Book 7 of 15 · published 2016 Anthology · Hilary Mantel,Claire-Louise Bennett,Lavinia Greenlaw,Tahmima Anam,Jenni Murray,K.J. Orr
The BBC National Short Story Award 2017
Book 8 of 15 · published 2017 Anthology · Joanna Trollope,Helen Oyeyemi,Jenni Fagan,Benjamin Markovits,Will Eaves,Cynan Jones
The BBC National Short Story Award 2018
Book 9 of 15 · published 2018 Co-authored · Kerry Andrew,Ingrid Persaud,Nell Stevens,Kiare Ladner,Stig Abell
The BBC National Short Story Award 2019
Book 10 of 15 · published 2019 Anthology · Lucy Caldwell,Jo Lloyd,Lynda Clark,Jacqueline Crooks,Nikki Bedi
The BBC National Short Story Award 2020
Book 11 of 15 · published 2020 Co-authored · Eley Williams,Caleb Azumah Nelson,Jan Carson,Jack Houston
The BBC National Short Story Award 2021
Book 12 of 15 · published 2021 Anthology · Danny Rhodes,James Runcie,Richard Smyth,Lucy Caldwell,Rory Gleeson,Georgina Harding
The BBC National Short Story Award 2022
Book 13 of 15 · published 2022 Anthology · Kerry Andrew,Elizabeth Day,Jenn Ashworth,Anna Bailey,Vanessa Onwuemezi,Saba Sams
The BBC National Short Story Award 2023
Book 14 of 15 · published 2023 Anthology · Kamila Shamsie,NickMulgrew,NaomiWood,CheriseSaywell,KPatrick,Reeta Chakrabarti
The BBC National Short Story Award 2024
Latest in the series · book 15 of 15 · published 2024 Anthology · Lucy Caldwell,Ross Raisin,Will Boast,Manish Chauhan,Paddy O’Connell,Vee Walker
The BBC National Short Story Award 2018
Series opener · book 1 of 3 · published 2018
The BBC National Short Story Award 2020
Latest in the series · book 3 of 3 · published 2020
? Frequently Asked Questions
Who is Sarah Hall?
About Sarah Hall A British author of science-fiction and fantasy, Sarah Hall is well known for her imaginative and intelligent genre novels. Providing readers with a real sense of scope and scale, she definitely knows and understands how to capture their attention. Allowing her stories to come alive, she immerses her audience in her world, seeing them lose themselves deeply within it all.
Which Sarah Hall series should I start with?
The best place to start is the Faber Stories series, the earliest of Sarah Hall's multi-book series: it opens with A Good Man Is Hard To Find (1955) and runs to 28 books across 1955–2019, ending with Intruders (2019). Sarah Hall's other series stand alone, so they can be read in any order.
How many books has Sarah Hall written?
Sarah Hall has 57 books catalogued in this guide, published between 1955 and 2025. 43 of them belong to 2 named series — the largest being the Faber Stories series with 28 books — and 14 are standalone titles, collections or anthologies.
In what order should Sarah Hall's series be read?
Read each series in publication order — the numbered entries in each series follow the year each book first appeared. Sarah Hall's series do not depend on one another, so they can be started in any order; by start date they are Faber Stories (1955–2019, 28 books) and The BBC National Short Story Award (2010–2024, 15 books).
How are Sarah Hall's books organised into series?
This guide splits Sarah Hall's 57 books into 2 named series and 14 titles that stand alone or appear only in collections: Faber Stories (28 books, 1955–2019); The BBC National Short Story Award (15 books, 2010–2024).