I'm the King of the Castle
  • Published: 7 February 2019
  • ISBN: 9780140034912
  • Imprint: Penguin General UK
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 208
  • RRP: $29.99

I'm the King of the Castle

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A twentieth century classic - a chilling tale of childhood cruelty and the exploitation of the weak by the strong - reissued in a fresh, contemporary package

'Some people are coming here today, now you will have a companion.'

But young Edmund Hooper doesn't want anyone else in Warings, the large and rambling Victorian house he shares with his widowed father. Nevertheless Charles Kingshaw and his mother are soon installed and Hooper sets about subtly persecuting the fearful new arrival.

In the woods, Charles fights back but he knows that his rival will always win the affections of the adults - and that worse is still to come . . .
  • Published: 7 February 2019
  • ISBN: 9780140034912
  • Imprint: Penguin General UK
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 208
  • RRP: $29.99
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About the author

Susan Hill

Susan Hill has been a professional writer for over fifty years. Her books have won awards and prizes including the Whitbread, the John Llewellyn Rhys and a Somerset Maugham, and have been shortlisted for the Booker. She was awarded a CBE in the Queen's Diamond Jubilee Honours. Her novels include Strange Meeting, I’m the King of the Castle, In the Springtime of the Year and A Kind Man. She has also published autobiographical works and collections of short stories as well as the Simon Serrailler series of crime novels. The play of her ghost story The Woman in Black has been running in London’s West End since 1988. She has two adult daughters and lives in North Norfolk.

www.susanhill.org.uk

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The Comforts of Home
The Man in the Picture
A Question of Identity
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Praise for I'm the King of the Castle

Equalled for poignancy and horror only in Lord of the Flies

Sunday Telegraph

Hill's exploration of a juvenile ghoul and his natural prey is a brilliant tour de force

Guardian

Delves beneath the surface of complex young minds, exposing not only their vulnerability and tenderness, their cruelty and malevolence, but also how parents end up turning a blind eye to their pain

Anita Sethi, 'Guardian'