1. Title - author - 1st year of publication

My bookreport is about the book "I’m the King of the Castle", this is what Kinshaw calls out when he and Edmund Hooper are climbing the ruin wall. The book is written by Susan Hill.

Susan Hill was born in Scarborough (Yorkshire) in 1942. She was educated at a local grammar school for girls and then studied at King’s College. She started her literary career in 1963 when she was 21. She published a remarkable series of novels while living in soltitude in Aldeburgh during the winter months. Many of her works won prestigious literary prizes. Susan Hill now lives in a small village in Oxfordshire with her husband and their daughter.

"I’m the King of the Castle" was first published in 1970.

2. Contents of the story

The story tells about Joseph Hooper and his son Edmund and about Mrs Helena Kingshaw and her son Charles, who both move into Joseph Hooper’s house. Joseph and Helena like each other very much, they even get married. But their sons don’t like each other at all, they only don’t see the problem.

The house they live in is called Warings, an old house built by the first Joseph Hooper. In the house is the Red Toom, which used to be a library. Later it became a kind of museum with glass showcases of moths and buttre flies. Edmund was attracted to the room, but he was also afraid of it because of all the dead bodies.

When Charles and his mother arrive Edmund locks himself up and he even tells Charles that he don’t want him and his mother to be in hís house. After some time Edmund even beats Charles.

After a week Kingshaw takes a walk because he wants to be away from the house and Hooper, he now already hates them. After some time he is in the middle of a cornfield and suddenly a crow attacks him. Charles becomes scared and he begins to run. When he reaches the house he sees Edmund in his room laughing about Charles being scared.

They begin to hate each other more and more. Edmund wants to find out how far he can go. The next night he takes a dead crow and lays it in Charles’ room. But Charles doesn’t react. He decides that the crow has to stay there until Mrs Boland, the maid comes to clean and takes it away. A few days later Edmund locks Charles up in the Red Room, because Charles is very afraid of death animal.

After some time Charles finds a room he likes, in that room he can be alone and work on a construction kit of a Spanish Galleon model. He tries Edmund not to find out which room he always goes to, but after a while Edmund figures out and he wants to see what is in the room.

Meanwhile Mr Hooper and Mrs Kingshaw become very happy with each other, they don’t see the problems their sons have. Mr Hooper is so happy that he hires decoraters and he even gives a Sunday morning cocktail party. Mrs Kingshaw and Mr Hooper are going to London to buy things for the cocktail party.















The day they are to London, Charles runs away. He can’t handle this whole situation any more. He runs through the fields, into a forest. In the forest he hears a noise, Hooper had been able to follow him. The two boys have to move on together. After a while they see a deer and because they are thirsty they follow it. Being so involved in hunting the deer they get lost. It begins to storm, in the storm Edmund is very frightened, it’s the first time Charles sees Edmund frightened. He...








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