BBC Radio 3: The Wicker Man Verb

Ian McMillan marks 50 years of the iconic film - with guests Sarah Hall, David Bramwell, Eliza Skelton and Brian Peters.

Faber Editions

A celebration with Sarah Hall.

Sarah Hall Critical Essays

Sarah Hall’s fame as a writer has been rising steadily since her debut novel, Haweswater, appeared in 2002. This illuminating collection offers an overdue scholarly appraisal of Sarah Hall’s fictional oeuvre to date.

BBC Radio 4: Open Book

Sarah Hall, Dorthe Nors, Fiona Mozley and Mya-Rose Craig share their literary response to the natural world; from capturing setting in fiction to memoirs inspired by landscape.

Fictionable

Sarah Hall puts us on the verge of a desperate act in this haunting short story.

BBC Radio 4

We’re All Living in OK Computer Now.

On the 25th anniversary of Radiohead’s masterpiece OK Computer, the author Sarah Hall examines the album’s prophetic, predictive qualities.

BBC Radio 4: Open Book

Elizabeth Day talks to Sarah Hall about her latest novel, Burntcoat.

The Faber Interview

In the first of a series of long read interviews with Faber authors, Sarah Hall speaks to Alex Clark about the inspiration behind her novel, Burntcoat, and the themes of her writing.

Guardian

Sarah Hall has a piece in this new anthology about music.

BBC National Short Story Award 2020

The Grotesques. In Sarah Hall’s evocative story about a troubled young woman who is exploring her place in her family and society. Lydia Wilson reads.

BBC Radio 4: Front Row

Sarah Hall is interviewed on BBC R4 Front Row about her 2020 BBC National Short Story Prize shortlisting.

American Society of Magazine Editors

Sarah Hall’s short story, The Grotesques, has been honoured as a finalist for the 2020 ASME.

Radio 4

Sarah Hall goes in search of the literary Everywoman in this two-part radio documentary.

English Heritage

Sarah Hall has written a short story for English Heritage called The Hand Under The Stone.

BBC Radio 4: Woman’s Hour

Sarah Hall reads from her book Sudden Traveller.

New Statesman

Sarah Hall has a new short story called The Woman The Book Read published in the New Statesman.

BBC Radio 4: Open Book

Sarah Hall and curator Melanie Vandenbrouck consider the moon’s illuminating impact on literature.

BBC Radio 4

Sarah Hall spoke on The Art of Intimacy.

New York Times Magazine

In this fairy tale, written exclusively for T by Sarah Hall, a mysterious accident occurs deep in the Turkish wood.

Penguin Book of the Contemporary British Short Story: from Ali Smith to Zadie Smith

Sarah Hall’s story Later, His Ghost has made it into the Penguin Book of the Contemporary British Short Story.

BBC Radio 4: Front Row

Sarah Hall discusses the thriving literary culture of Norwich.

BBC Radio 3: The Verb

Ian McMillan and guests Sarah Hall, Hollie McNish & Vanessa Kisuule, Ari Eldjarn, and Rob Drummond examine ideas of localness in language.

Guardian

The Cloud Atlas novelist David Mitchell praises Madame Zero by Sarah Hall.

Radio 4: Only Artists

Two artists discuss creative questions. What part can wild places play in creative composition? Musician and composer Kerry Andrew travels to meet the novelist Sarah Hall.

Guardian

Ahead of 2017’s National short story prize, Jon McGregor reluctantly chooses ‘swoony’ work from recent years showing some of the ways to write them well. Features Sarah Hall’s Then Later, His Ghost.

Granta

Sarah Hall in conversation with Tessa Hadley.

BBC R4: Short Works

In Sarah Hall’s specially commissioned short story for Radio 4, a local eccentric has an unnerving effect on a rural town in America’s Northwest. Jamie Parker reads.

BBC R4: Front Row

Sarah Hall on new short story collection Madame Fox.

Guardian

Beautiful and brutal: how James Salter set the standard for erotic writing.

Sotheby’s

The Swan and the Courtesan: An Original Story by Sarah Hall.

Guardian

The Carhullan Army: a near-future struggle that feels all too close.

Guardian

Sarah Hall: sex, death and the short story.

BBC R3: Private Passions

Michael Berkeley’s guest is writer Sarah Hall. Her musical choices include Puccini, the Welsh lullaby Suo Gan and Dvorak’s Song to the Moon, plus bluegrass and film music.

BBC National Short Story Award

A husband is shocked out of his complacency when his wife undergoes a remarkable transformation. Andrea Riseborough reads Sarah Hall’s 2013 prize-winning tale.

BBC R4

Sarah Hall’s Theatre Six is a new short story commissioned by BBC Radio 4 as part of the 50th anniversary of The Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan.

BBC R4: Open Book

Sarah Hall takes Mariella Frostrup around the Lake District landscape that has inspired and informed her novels.

BBC R4: Woman’s Hour

Yorkshire’s greatest women; Women’s rights in Afghanistan; Inequalities in female healthcare and author Sarah Hall.

BBC R4: Open Book

Sarah Hall, award winning writer, talks about her collection of short stories, the hauntingly beautiful and psychologically complex “The Beautiful Indifference” - one of which, “Butcher’s Perfume” was nominated for the BBC National Short Story Prize in 2010.

Financial Times: Small Talk

Sarah Hall wrote poetry before publishing her debut novel Haweswater (2002), which won a Commonwealth Writers Prize. Her second novel, The Electric Michelangelo, was shortlisted for the 2004 Man Booker Prize. Hall was born in Carlisle in 1974. After graduating in English and history of art, she studied creative writing at the University of St Andrews. She now lives in Norwich.

BBC R4: Cat Women of the Moon

The programme is presented by the writer Sarah Hall, author of ‘The Carhullan Army’ and ‘The Electric Michelangelo’ which was short listed for the Booker Prize.

Guardian

Northern tea with Sarah Hall. The novelist explains to Richard Lea that there’s nothing parochial about her fierce attachment to her northern roots.