Adult
Fiction
The
Aidan Mysteries. (Lion
Fiction and Greenbrier)
A
Corpse in Holy Waters
The
relationship between Aidan and Lucy is strained as she takes him
and Melagell on a tour of Cornish holy wells. She clearly has a
secret agenda. Who is following them? And who is the "dead
man walking" Melangell sees? As danger overtakes them, Lucy
is fleeing for her life.
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Death
on Lindisfarne.
Aidan
makes a painful journey, bringing young Melangell to Lindisfarne,
where he last came with her mother. Lucy, leading a course on Northumbrian
saints, has her own frightening memories of the past. They are thrown
together as they search for the killer among Lucy's group.
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The
Hunted Hare
The
peace of a remote Welsh pilgrimage site is shattered by a violent
murder. Can Aidan and Jenny find the killer as they face the imminence
of Jenny's death?
"Don't
miss this fantastic mystery novel." eden.co.uk.
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tour of The Hunted Hare (Monarch).
First of the Aidan mysteries.
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The
Suzie Fewing Series. (Severn
House)
In
the Blood (Severn House). A family history investigation
brings the violence of the past dangerously close to Suzie's teenage
son today. .
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A
Malignant House (Severn House). Suzie gets
the run of the document chest in a stately home, but discovers that
violent conflicts are not confined to the 17th century Civil War.
British
Crime Club Pick, Poisoned Pen Booknews..
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Those
in Peril (Severn House). The Fewings investigate
Nick's heroic lifeboatman ancestor. But they also turn up darker
stories. There are disturbing links with crime today in coastal
waters. Curiosity leads to Millie and her cousin going missing.
"Brisk
pace, tense climax, and distinctive characters."
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Father
Unknown. While Suzie and
her American friend investigate an illegitimate baby from the past,
a pregnant teenager goes missing. Can they find her before worse
happens to her?
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The
Overlooker
A trip to Lancashire,
to research Nick's ancestors in the cotton mills, puts the Fewings
in unexpected danger.
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Beneath
the Soil
A
murder takes place at a farm the Fewings visited the day before.
Do they hold the clue to the killer? The hunt becomes more
sinister as Suzie, Nick and their son Tom pursue the secret inheritance
in the woods and Suzie puts herself in danger.
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Morgan
le Fay series. Revised editions from Cosmos
Books of the novels originally published as
Daughter of Tintagel.
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this interview: http://www.lib.rochester.edu/camelot/intrvws/sampson.htm
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about the creation of this series: DARK
MATTER.
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Fairy healer
or wicked witch? The story of Morgan le Fay and King Arthur as you've
never heard it before.
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The
Land of Angels
(Robert
Hale)Augustine of Canterbury
comes to pagan Kent and meets the feisty Queen Bertha. It is a dangerous
partnership for both of them.
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The
novel is elegantly written in literary prose, with lyrical descriptions
of landscape and religious rites, set in a fascinating and neglected
period of British history. Carla Nayland Historical Fiction.
She
writes with great vividness about her subject, which ensures a constantly
engaging story. Historical Novels Review.
The Island
Pilgrimage
(Robert Hale - 0-7090-7660-6)
On the holy island of
Hy, where the barrier between the spiritual and physical is
thin, Margaret and Brian cross one threshold too many.
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The Silent Fort
(Robert Hale - 0 7090 7455 7)
The Roman army is advancing on Devon. Should the Celts collaborate or
resist? Melwas demands the weapons of a warrior, though he is still too
young. Cairenn is on the brink of marriage when the chief's son, Aidan
the Red Fox, disappears. Brother and sister plunge into danger, as male
and female druids compete for the soul of the tribe.
He
was the first Roman they had ever seen, and he was dead...
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'Reflections'.
Mermaid story in the fantasy anthology Strange Pleasures
(ed. John Grant
& Dave Hutchinson. Prime - ISBN: 1-894815-08-4)
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The Flight of the Sparrow
( Robert Hale - ISBN: 0-7090-6402-0)
The story of the Edwin, who rose from a hunted exile to become the great
king of Anglo-Saxon Northumbria, and his bitter feud with his Celtic foster-brother
Cadwallon of Gwynedd. Edwin is torn between his loyalty to the old Saxon
gods, the Roman Church of his young queen, and the Celtic Christianity
he knew in Wales. As the storm-clouds gather, his niece Hild, who became
Abbess of Whitby, is growing up at his court.
Fay Sampson's writing is beautiful, powerful, entrenching the
reader in Dark Age Britain. |
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A Casket of Earth
(Robert Hale - ISBN: 0-7090-6054-8)
A Northumbrian Christian princess is married off to the son of the fearsome
pagan king of Mercia. She finds herself caught in a web of intrigue and
murder, as her father's army prepares to attack her father-in-law. Into
the dangerous situation at Lichfield comes the Celtic saint Chad.
Once again Fay Sampson has interwoven plot and subplot into
an intriguing tale of political passion, malice, love and revenge. |
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Star Dancer
(Headline - ISBN: 0-7472-0661-9 hardback, 0-7472-4150-3 paperback)
The oldest written stories in the world are found on fragments of clay
tablets in Sumerian cuneiform. All these stories of Mesopotamian gods
and goddesses have been gathered together here around the powerful central
figure of Inanna, Lady of Love and War. At the climax of the story she
descends to the Netherworld, to challenge the power of its fearful Queen
Ereshkigal.
Daughter of Tintagel.
Original Headline editions
(Omnibus volume- ISBN:0-7472-3894-4)
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Wise Woman's Telling
(Headline - ISBN: 0-7472-3263-6 paperback, 0-7472-0220-6 hardback)
Morgan le Fay's childhood and the birth of Arthur, told by her nurse,
a wise woman in the old religion.
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White Nun's Telling
(Headline - ISBN: 0-7472-3297-0 paperback, 0-7472-0221-4 hardback)
Morgan grows up as a prisoner in a Celtic nunnery, where the old religion
is practised secretly. Told by the nun charged with keeping her safe.
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Blacksmith's Telling
(Headline - ISBN: 0-7472-3400-0 paperback. 0-7472-0258-3 hardback)
Morgan is queen to King Urien of Rheged as Arthur emerges into fame. Told
by a smith wise in the old religion, who makes the mistake of challenging
Morgan's power.
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Taliesin's Telling
(Headline - ISBN: 0-7472-3568-6 paperback. 0-7472-0340-7 hardback)
Morgan struggles to win Arthur's love, but tragedy looms in the shape
of her foster-child, Arthur's son Modred. Told by the susceptible young
bard Taliesin.
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Herself
(Headline - ISBN:0-7472-3708-5 paperback. 0-7474-0452-7 hardback)
Arthur lies mortally wounded and only Morgan can save him. Will she? She
recalls their story, and ironically tells us how writers down the centuries
have demonised her role.
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Reflection on the Tintagel
novels.
I recognise two well-springs for my
Arthurian fiction: poetry and place. In adolescence, I was enchanted by
the Idylls of the King and the ruins of Tintagel Castle.
Interestingly, neither
of these sources led me to the subject of this study: Morgan le Fay. Tennyson
makes no mention of her. The heritage industry of Cornwall celebrates
Arthur and Merlin, not Morgan.
For me, early ignorance
is creative. A powerful motive for my writing is curiosity: the incomplete
fragment, the action which demands explanation, the "what if?"
To discover, in adulthood, fresh light on something I thought I knew makes
me want to detain the wedding-guests on the doorstep and demand that they
listen to my story.
A picture book shared
with my small daughter opened my eyes to Morgan. It told of Morgan's theft
of Arthur's scabbard, his pursuit of her through the forest, Morgan turning
herself and her company into stones and casting away the scabbard of healing.
I sensed I had discovered someone significant.
I hadn't read Malory
then. It was from Roger Lancelyn Green's children's version, King Arthur
and the Knights of the Round Table, that I learned more. It opens
with the slaying of Morgan's father and the magical seduction of her mother,
both required for the conception of Arthur by Uther Pendragon. I was then
a writer of children's novels, a teacher and a mother. I saw immediately
how the orphaned young Morgan must feel about that baby half-brother.
My concern was for Morgan the child, not yet for the woman she became.
I read the startling
sentence: ...she was sent to school in a nunnery; yet, by some means,
she learnt much magic, which she used wickedly.
This conjured up images
which formed the inspiration for a novel. That remained unpublished, but
later evolved into the five-volume sequence, Daughter of Tintagel.
Four people tell Morgan's story: two women, two men, two pagan, two Christian,
two sympathetic, two hostile. Lastly, Morgan speaks for herself, and ironically
comments on all the writers who have used her story for their own ends.
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