Actor & Author
Susannah
Wise
Three novels published. A stage and screen career spanning the Royal Court, the National Theatre, and Apple TV+. Susannah Wise lives and writes in London.
© Ruth Crafer
Latest Novel
The Drift — Out Now
Actor & Author
Three novels published. A stage and screen career spanning the Royal Court, the National Theatre, and Apple TV+. Susannah Wise lives and writes in London.
© Ruth Crafer
Latest Novel
The Drift — Out Now
Writer
A heady brew of folk horror and psychological thrills — I absolutely loved it. Tom Mead, author of the Joseph Spector mysteries
New
Bloodhound Books · 2025
A folk horror novel set in the fells of Cumbria. Gripping, atmospheric, and deeply unsettling — Wise's most assured work yet.
Order NowMagical, nostalgic, current, imaginative, tragic and very funny. I devoured it in two sittings. Dame Maureen Lipman
Gollancz / Hachette · 2022
Marnie, a middle-aged poet haunted by her long-dead twin, embarks on a wildly peculiar journey through grief, identity, and the London streets — with an octogenarian Harley Street shrink in tow.
Order NowGripping and all too believable — like an extended episode of Black Mirror. Saul David, author
Gollancz / Hachette · 2021
In a near-future London, technology has stopped working. A mother and her young son must escape the city before everything falls apart. Longlisted for the Mslexia Prize.
Order NowPraise
The Drift
Gripping and extremely creepy.
Sophie Ward — author of Love and Other Thought Experiments
The Drift
Brilliant. A gripping, contemporary page-turner with all the elements of classic 1970s horror. Couldn't put it down.
Indira Varma — actor, Game of Thrones, The Night Manager
Okay Then That's Great
Magical, nostalgic, current, imaginative, tragic and very funny. I devoured it in two sittings.
Dame Maureen Lipman
This Fragile Earth
Truly gripping.
Kristin Scott Thomas
This Fragile Earth
A remarkably original first novel, beautifully written, about a future that could be just around the corner.
Julie Christie — Oscar-winning star of Darling and Doctor Zhivago
This Fragile Earth
I absolutely devoured this book. It has everything I love — great characters, intrigue, action, heart, drama and hope.
Aisling Bea
This Fragile Earth
Smart, with a fantastic sense of foreboding and anxiety — intelligent, accessible, restrained, and suspenseful. Hugely impressive work from a new writer.
David Nicholls — author of One Day
The Drift
One part Hammer Studios, one part contemporary twist — compellingly creepy and deliciously plotted.
Sophia Spiers — author of The Call of Cassandra Rose
Okay Then That's Great
A runaway train of a novel, taking the reader on a grand, tragi-comic ride.
Dame Rose Tremain — author of Restoration
Okay Then That's Great
A really entertaining, funny, heartfelt read. I loved every bonkers minute.
Sophie Ward
Actor
Hero — Royal Court
A Doll's House — Young Vic
Ah, Wilderness! — Young Vic
The Hush — National Theatre
A stage and screen career across the Royal Court, Young Vic, National Theatre, Almeida, and in television including Apple TV+, BBC, and ITV.
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Representation
DPA Management (UK)
Daniel Albert
+44 (0)203 515 0195
contact@dpamanagement.com
Phoenix Artists Inc (US)
Randi Ross
(001) 212-586-9110
randiross@aol.com
News
July 2026
Come Dine With Me crime writers dinner, 25th July 2026.
February 2026
Speaking on two panels about writing, books and ghosts in fiction at the UK Ghost Story Festival, Saturday 28th February 2026.
2024
Joining the Almeida Theatre to appear in Alma Mater, directed by Polly Findlay.
October 2025
Third novel published by Bloodhound Books on Halloween. A folk horror set in Cumbria.
2023
Signed to adapt AJ West's novel The Spirit Engineer for film and TV. West called Wise "a skilful storyteller" in announcing the deal.
October 2023
Speaking on the Age Rage panel alongside Lorraine Candy and Victoria Smith at Cheltenham Lit Fest.
April 2022
The debut novel arrives in paperback. Featured in Grazia's best books round-up alongside Kate Atkinson and Bonnie Garmus.
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