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Penny Hancock

Penny Hancock
Penny Hancock

Penny Hancock

After several years in London, Penny Hancock now lives in Cambridge with her husband and three children. She is a part-time primary school teacher at a speech and language school and has travelled extensively as a language teacher. This is her first... Read full bio

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Q. How would you describe perfect happiness?
A. Knowing that  everyone I love is secure and happy.
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April 8, 2013
The Cutty Sark inGreenwich-or

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The Cutty Sark re-opened in April this year. For five...
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April 2, 2013

Tideline music







One of the questions the lovely Chris Simmons (Crimesquad) asked me during the...
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March 26, 2012
Why am I overcome with melancholy today? OK it's a dire time of the year, dark already at 4.00 pm and it's been overcast since...
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January 25, 2012
There’s something mysterious about the signs on the motorway that say, simply ‘The North.’ They hint at a vague arctic...
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The Darkening Hour will be released on September 01, 2013 in Hardcover, Trade Paperback
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The Darkening Hour will be released on August 29, 2013 in eBook
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The Cutty Sark
Apr 09, 2013
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Music in Tideline
Apr 03, 2013
Tideline will be released on September 01, 2012 in Mass Market Paperback
Sep 01, 2012
Tideline is now available in Mass Market Paperback
Sep 01, 2012
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Departures
Mar 27, 2012
Tideline will be released on February 01, 2012 in Trade Paperback
Feb 01, 2012
Tideline is now available in Trade Paperback
Feb 01, 2012
Jan 26, 2012
Tideline will be released on January 05, 2012 in
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Sep 14, 2011
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Penny Hancock Revealed

Q. What do you regret most? A. Not listening properly to the people I love Q. What is your favorite occupation, when you’re not writing? A. Drinking wine with good friends Q. If you could be any person or thing, who or what would it be? A. I'm very cautious verging on superstitious about wishing to be anyone else! Q. What’s your greatest fear? A. Something bad happening to someone I love Learn more about Penny Hancock

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Tucson Citizen, October 30, 2012
...are raised. “The Hiding Place” is perfect reading for a crisp autumn night. Kept in the Dark by Penny Hancock (Plume, $15) Set in London, when fifteen-year-old Jez visits Sonia, his voice coach, to borrow some music, he becomes missing. When it...
Booktrade - Book2Book, May 24, 2012
...Circus by Erin Morgenstern, The Secrets Between Us by Louise Douglas, The Hypnotist by Lars Kepler, Tideline by Penny Hancock, The Book of Summers by Emylia Hall, A Perfectly Good Man by Patrick Gale and Alice Bliss by Laura Harrington....
Bookseller, May 23, 2012
...Man by Patrick Gale (Fourth Estate) and The Hypnotists by Lars Kepler (Blue Door) from HCUK, Tideline by Penny Hancock (S&S) and Alice Bliss by Laura Harrington (Picador) complete the list. R&J will unite with the Reading Agency for the first time to...
Bookseller, May 23, 2012
...Fourth Estate) and The Hypnotists by Lars Kepler (Blue Door) from HCUK. The final titles are Tideline by Penny Hancock (S&S); Alice Bliss by Laura Harrington (Picador); and Jubilee by Shelley Harris (Phoenix). R&J will unite with the Reading Agency for...
STLtoday.com, March 31, 2013
...Nichole; great-grandmother of Hudson & Jolene DeMarti; sister of Clarence, Elvis, James, Charles, Norman, Billy Ott, Evelyn Highley, Penny Hancock, and Geneva McCauley; our dear sister-in-law, aunt, great-aunt, cousin and friend to many. Services:...
Tucson Citizen, October 30, 2012
...are raised. “The Hiding Place” is perfect reading for a crisp autumn night. Kept in the Dark by Penny Hancock (Plume, $15) Set in London, when fifteen-year-old Jez visits Sonia, his voice coach, to borrow some music, he becomes missing. When it...
Mid Sussex Today, August 21, 2012
...Locker, 3rd David Wilson. Meat Pie Section - Tony Maynard Trophy: 1st Brian Davey, 2nd Jeane Baker, 3rd Penny Hancock and Jess Sharpe. Baking Section - Brian Feeley Memorial Salver: 1st Mick Nesbitt, Brian Davey and Katherine Pickering, 2nd Jeni...
Harrogate News, July 20, 2012
...discussed the “Drawing the line” and moral boundaries in writing with Margie Orford, Gregg Hurwitz, Tim Weaver and Penny Hancock     Erica Morris Literary Festivals Manager said: It is yet another hugely successful crime festival with...
MaleFirst Mens Magazine, July 12, 2012
...Erik Maria Bark. As the hypnosis begins, a long and terrifying chain of events unfurls. 7. Tideline, by Penny Hancock, £4.99 One winter's afternoon, voice coach Sonia opens the door of her beautiful riverside home to fifteen-year-old Jez, the nephew...
Teen First Teen Magazine, July 12, 2012
...Erik Maria Bark. As the hypnosis begins, a long and terrifying chain of events unfurls. 7. Tideline, by Penny Hancock, £4.99 One winter's afternoon, voice coach Sonia opens the door of her beautiful riverside home to fifteen-year-old Jez, the nephew...
FemaleFirst.co.uk, July 3, 2012
...Erik Maria Bark. As the hypnosis begins, a long and terrifying chain of events unfurls. 7. Tideline, by Penny Hancock, 4.99 One winter's afternoon, voice coach Sonia opens the door of her beautiful riverside home to fifteen-year-old Jez, the nephew of a...