Last year Sophie Hannah shared with us how she became the official writer of new Hercule Poirot novels.

Sophie is also a prolific poet having published multiple collections of poems. Her poetry is praised by her contemporaries, readers and critics for its comic and off-centre observation of our world combined with an often poignant undertone of heartache or inadequacy. Scottish poet Kathleen Jamie calls her a ‘jewel of inventive cleverness’, noting that her ‘command of forms is unarguable, her glance is oblique, her grasp of situations unusual’. Hannah was born in Manchester in 1971, and has been a Fellow at the universities of Oxford and Cambridge. Her poetry is studied at GCSE and A-Level in the UK.