BBC Radio Cumbria

Sarah Hall has been captivated by the Helm Wind since her childhood, believing it had “a personality.”

Publishers Weekly

Readers will be swept away by Hall’s ambitious and formally daring narrative.

The Bookseller

Books in the Media: critics hail Sarah Hall’s latest for its ingenuity and experimentation

BBC Radio 4: Take Four Books

Sarah Hall on her new novel – Helm – and its connections to three other books.

The Guardian

Books: if you only read one, make it Helm by Sarah Hall.

Financial Times

Helm is as vital, fierce and free as the phenomenon it describes.

The Spectator

Helm pushes both the boundaries of the novel and our relationship with nature.

The Observer

The author breezes through the eras in her tales of Cumbria’s Cross Fell, where the Helm wind blows.

The Guardian

Helm by Sarah Hall review – a mighty epic of climate change in slow motion.

Scotland on Sunday

Helm: A poetic narrative that arches across time.

Kirkus

Helm is a monumental literary tribute to the interconnection, as old as time, of weather and humanity.

The Guardian

Environmental fiction is booming – but can it move beyond dystopia to a brighter vision of the future? An essay by Sarah Hall.

The Scotsman

Helm is an accomplished book that could well win prizes.

Daily Express

5 new books you should read this week. Helm, A darkly witty antidote to your usual nature writing.

Field

Sarah Hall returns this August with Helm, a haunting, multi-millennial tale of the mysterious wind in Cumbria’s Eden Valley.

Marie Claire

Editor’s Pick: Helm, “A wide-ranging narrative filled with hope and awe.”

The Independent

Novel of the Month: ★★★★★ – Helm will sweep you off your feet.

The i Paper

The best new books out in August 2025: Helm by Sarah Hall. “You can always rely on Hall to blow you away.”

New Scientist

The best new fiction books of August 2025. Helm by Sarah Hall.

The Times

Helm is Hugh Fearnley Whittingstall’s book for the summer holidays.

London Review of Books

David Lea’s summer picks: Helm is an epic ecofictional fable from ‘show-stopping genius’ Sarah Hall.

The Observer

Profile of Sarah Hall: ‘The Helm Wind was like a childhood friend’

The Observer

A Balloon Ride, an extract from Helm.

Forward Prizes for Poetry

Forward Prizes for Poetry Shortlist Announced, with Chair of Judges Sarah Hall

The Irish Times

The best books for summer 2025: our critics’ top picks. “Sarah Hall’s new book Helm is predictably superb.”

Guardian

My perfect holiday reading. Author Sarah Perry hails Helm, “incandescently good”.

The Bookseller

Faber includes ‘Human Written’ stamp on Sarah Hall’s Helm in anti-AI bid.

The University of Manchester

Acclaimed author Sarah Hall joins The University’s Centre for New Writing.

Forward Prizes for Poetry

Celebrated author Sarah Hall is 2025’s Chair of Judges.

The New Statesman

25 books to read in 2025: Helm by Sarah Hall.

Guardian

Sarah Hall’s 10th work of fiction, Helm, makes the Guardian’s ‘books to look forward to in 2025’.

Financial Times

What to read in 2025: Helm by Sarah Hall.

Lancaster University

Sarah Hall receives honorary Doctor of Letters for outstanding contribution to literature.

Faber

Faber to publish Sarah Hall’s outstanding new novel, Helm, in June 2025.

Dublin Literary Award

Burntcoat is longlisted for the Dublin Literary Award 2023.

Guardian

Burntcoat is The Guardian audiobook of the week.

The Times

Burntcoat made The Times best paperbacks 2022.

South Bank Sky Arts Awards

Burntcoat is shortlisted for the literature category of the South Bank Sky Arts Awards.

Humanists UK

Humanists UK is delighted to welcome three new patrons into the fold, including novelist Sarah Hall.

National Book Critics Circle Awards

Burntcoat is a finalist in the National Book Critics Circle Awards 2021.

The Irish Times

Burntcoat made The Irish Times best books of the year.

Guardian

Burntcoat made the Guardian’s best books of the year.

New York Times

Book review of Burntcoat.

University of Cumbria

Sarah Hall has been made a Professor of Practice at the University of Cumbria.

Edge Hill Prize

Sudden Traveller is longlisted for the Edge Hill Prize.

James Tait Black Prize

Sudden Traveller is shortlisted for the James Tait Black Prize.

Times Literary Supplement

Review of Sudden Traveller.

BBC National Short Story Award

Sarah Hall becomes first writer to win BBC National Short Story Award twice.

American Society of Magazine Editors

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

O. Henry Prize

Sarah Hall’s story Goodnight Nobody (from Madame Zero) is one of the winners of the 2019 O. Henry Prize for short fiction.

Edge Hill Prize

Sarah Hall’s Madame Zero wins the 2018 Edge Hill Readers’ Choice Award. The Edge Hill Short Story Prize.

Guardian

Sarah Hall’s Sudden Traveller is shortlisted for the BBC National Short Story Award 2018.

Commonwealth Writers Short Story Prize

Sarah Hall is Chair of judges for the Commonwealth Writers Short Story Prize 2018, congratulations to Kevin Jared Hosein.

Edge Hill Short Story Prize

Sarah Hall’s Madame Zero is one of five books on the 2018 Edge Hill Short Story Prize Shortlist.

Cambridge Festival of Creative Writing

Evening discussion with Sarah Hall.

Gordon Burn Prize

Sarah Hall’s Madame Zero is on the Gordon Burn Prize Longlist.

The Times

Madame Zero made the Guardian’s best books of 2017.

East Anglian Book Of The Year Awards

Madame Zero won the best fiction category of 2017.

Los Angeles Review of Books

‘A perfect balance of language and content.’ Review of Madame Zero.

Guardian

Madame Zero by Sarah Hall review – exceptional short stories.

Booker Prizes

Sarah Hall is to judge the 2017 Man Booker Prize for Fiction.

Royal Society of Literature

Sarah Hall has been made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.

Daily Telegraph

The Wolf Border has been short listed for the 2016 Sky South Bank Show’s Literature Award.

Guardian

The Wolf Border has been short listed for the 2016 James Tait Black fiction category.

Guardian

Sarah Hall, author of the Booker-shortlisted The Electric Michelango, defends Hilary Mantel’s The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher.

American Academy of Arts and Letters

Sarah Hall receives the E. M. Forster Award.

BBC National Short Story Award

Author Sarah Hall has been named the winner of the BBC National Short Story Award 2013 for her story Mrs Fox.

Guernica Magazine

Author James Salter ‘admires’ The Beautiful Indifference by Sarah Hall.

Edge Hill Short Story Prize

The Beautiful Indifference wins the Edge Hill Short Story Prize and Readers Award.