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Fay Sampson

    Fay Sampson combina su formación matemática con un talento innato para la narración. Tras años de docencia, ahora se dedica a tiempo completo a la escritura, y sus primeros libros infantiles fueron frecuentemente destacados en selecciones destacadas. Sampson se centra ahora en novelas para adultos, en las que entrelaza magistralmente la historia y la leyenda. Su obra se caracteriza por su profundidad y un estilo narrativo cautivador que sumerge a los lectores en mundos fascinantes.

    La Leggenda dei Cavalieri della Tavola Rotonda
    Visions and Voyages
    The Wounded Thorn
    The Wounded Snake
    Alarma En Patterick Fell
    • The Wounded Snake

      • 208 páginas
      • 8 horas de lectura

      Amateur sleuths Hilary Masters and Veronica Taylor face a real-life murder mystery at a crime writing weekend. Is a dark conspiracy unfolding on a West Country estate?Friends Hilary Masters and Veronica Taylor are eager to embark upon their weekend-long masterclass in crime writing at the evocative, fourteenth-century Morland Abbey, hoping to gain inspiration for their own novels. The queen of crime fiction herself, Dinah Halsgrove, is the guest of honour, giving the opening talk. But when Dinah suddenly falls ill later that evening, the pair can't help being suspicious. Has her mysterious illness been staged by the organisers, or does someone in their writing group have murderous intent?A series of sinister incidents draw Hilary and Veronica into a real-life murder mystery as gripping as any bestselling crime novel, but the biggest twist is yet to come . . . Can they separate fact from fiction to solve a deadly puzzle?

      The Wounded Snake2019
      3,5
    • The Wounded Thorn

      • 320 páginas
      • 12 horas de lectura

      Recently retired teacher Hilary decides that the best way to stop herself worrying about her husband, who's away doing voluntary work in war-torn Gaza, is to distract herself with a holiday. She invites her good friend Veronica, a recent widow, to accompany her on a trip to Glastonbury, to see the ancient sights. The pair are saddened to discover that the sacred Glastonbury Thorn tree has been severely damaged, and they wonder whether other local sites are under threat too. But even they are unprepared for the shocking discovery Hilary makes at the Chalice Well: an abandoned bag, containing a bomb ... Who is to blame? A foreign tourist? An eccentric pagan author? Or an angry local who resents that a Christian place has been 'overun' by other beliefs? Hilary and Veronica just want to be on holiday, but they can't help but be sucked in to the investigation.

      The Wounded Thorn2015
      3,2
    • As the Roman Empire crumbled around them, Celtic Christians threw themselves into pilgrimage, finding their visionary islands on Skellig Michael, Iona and Lindisfarne. Using history and legend, Fay Sampson tells the story of the Celtic pilgrim spirit.

      Visions and Voyages1998
    • Alarma En Patterick Fell

      • 173 páginas
      • 7 horas de lectura

      Roger's hopes to follow in the footsteps of his atomic-scientist father are destroyed when the government bans all nuclear plants, and his doubts are complicated by the mysterious disappearance of his sister, Elspeth.

      Alarma En Patterick Fell1984
      3,4