Publication Order of Standalone Novels
| The Girl on the Train | 2015 |
| Into the Water | 2017 |
| A Slow Fire Burning | 2021 |
| The Blue Hour | 2024 |
Publication Order of Short Stories/Novellas
| Blind Spot | 2022 |
Publication Order of Amy Silver Books
| Confessions of a Reluctant Recessionista | 2009 |
| All I Want for Christmas | 2010 |
| One Minute to Midnight | 2011 |
| The Reunion | 2013 |
Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books
| The Money Goddess | 2006 |
About Paula Hawkins
Paula Hawkins is a British novelist, born in 1972 in what is now Harare, Zimbabwe, and the author of the psychological thriller “The Girl on the Train” (2015). The book has sold over 23 million copies, has been published in more than fifty languages and was filmed in 2016 with Emily Blunt in the lead.
Hawkins grew up in Zimbabwe, where her father was an economics professor and financial journalist, and moved to London in 1989 at the age of 17. She read philosophy, politics and economics at Keble College, Oxford, then worked as a business reporter for The Times before going freelance. She spent fifteen years as a journalist, and in 2006 she published a financial advice book for women, “The Money Goddess”.
Her first fiction appeared under the pen name Amy Silver. From 2009 she wrote four romantic comedy novels under that name, beginning with “Confessions of a Reluctant Recessionista”, none of which brought a commercial breakthrough.
That came when she set herself the task of writing something darker. She wrote “The Girl on the Train” in six months, working full time on it and borrowing money from her father while she did. The novel is a thriller that deals with domestic violence, alcohol and drug abuse, and it became a number one bestseller around the world. In November 2016 Hawkins was named one of the BBC’s 100 Women.
Her second thriller, “Into the Water”, was published in May 2017 and was a Sunday Times and New York Times bestseller. “A Slow Fire Burning” followed in August 2021 and was nominated for Thriller of the Year at the British Book Awards. A shorter book, “Blind Spot”, came out in 2022, and her most recent novel, “The Blue Hour”, was published in October 2024.
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