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Duncan Hamilton

    Este autor irlandés crea aventuras de fantasía heroica, fusionando una profunda pasión por la historia medieval y renacentista con escenarios imaginativos. Su estilo narrativo se caracteriza por un ritmo trepidante, personajes cautivadores y altas apuestas, reflejando el tipo de historias que a él le gusta leer. Sus obras abordan temas como la redención, la venganza y la megalomanía, a menudo con dragones y combates con espadas. Las historias exploran con frecuencia las pruebas de héroes improbables que se ven inmersos en tramas y conflictos intrincados que forjan sus destinos.

    Injury Time
    One Long and Beautiful Summer
    For the Glory
    Provided You Don't Kiss Me
    The Footballer Who Could Fly
    Answered Prayers
    • A remarkable look at the 1966 World Cup, the most famous sporting event in English history, and a portrait of an age by our greatest writer on sport.

      Answered Prayers2023
      5,0
    • Injury Time

      • 320 páginas
      • 12 horas de lectura

      Injury Time is the first novel from the great sportswriter Duncan Hamilton. It is about accepting the past and living a life in the present, hope and disappointment, success and failure and how close all of those things are in life and in the glory game.

      Injury Time2021
      3,8
    • One Long and Beautiful Summer

      • 272 páginas
      • 10 horas de lectura

      An elegiac work reflecting on the evolution of cricket since 1945 and the dramatic changes that the 2020 had promised to bring.

      One Long and Beautiful Summer2020
      4,1
    • For the Glory

      • 528 páginas
      • 19 horas de lectura

      `Eric Liddell deserves a definitive biography. After refusing to compete on religious principle in the event in which he was favourite, the 100 metres, at the 1924 Games in Paris, Liddell won an astonishing gold medal in the 400 metres.

      For the Glory2017
      4,4
    • Inspired by his father's lifelong devotion to Newcastle United, Duncan Hamilton charts the progress of postwar British football to the present day. But at the heart of the book is his exploration of the bond between father and son through the Beautiful Game and how football became the only connection between two people who were totally different from one another.

      The Footballer Who Could Fly2013
      4,5
    • Provided You Don't Kiss Me

      • 256 páginas
      • 9 horas de lectura

      `One day you'll write a book about this club. Or, more to the point, about me. So you may as well know what I'm thinking and save it up for later when it won't do any harm to anyone.'

      Provided You Don't Kiss Me2008
      4,3