Sam Llewellyn Books In Order

Monsters of Lyonesse Books In Order

  1. The Well Between the Worlds (2009)
  2. Darksolstice (2010)

Novels

  1. Gurney’s Release (1979)
  2. Gurney’s Revenge (1981)
  3. Gurney’s Reward (1981)
  4. Hell Bay (1984)
  5. Dead Reckoning (1987)
  6. Great Circle (1987)
  7. Blood Orange (1988)
  8. Death Roll (1989)
  9. Pig in the Middle (1989)
  10. Deadeye (1990)
  11. Blood Knot (1991)
  12. Riptide (1992)
  13. Clawhammer (1993)
  14. Maelstrom (1994)
  15. The Rope School (1994)
  16. The Shadow in the Sands (1998)
  17. Wonder Dog (1999)
  18. The Iron Hotel (2000)
  19. Pegleg (2000)
  20. The Sea Garden (2000)
  21. The Malpas Legacy (2001)
  22. Little Darlings (2004)
  23. Bad Bad Darlings (2005)
  24. The Return of Death Eric (2005)
  25. Desperado Darlings (2006)
  26. The Haunting of Death Eric (2006)
  27. Eye of the Cannon (2007)
  28. Abbot Dagger’s Academy and the Quest for the Holy Grail (2008)
  29. Black Fish (2010)
  30. Singlehand (2018)

Collections

  1. Haunted (2011)

Non fiction

  1. The Worst Journey in the Midlands (1983)
  2. The Minimum Boat (2010)

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Sam Llewellyn Books Overview

The Well Between the Worlds

The land of Lyonesse is sinking, and the sea batters its walls; it has become a place of poison and danger, and its people live in an uneasy truce with the monsters that inhabit its bottomless Wells. Idris Limpet is an ordinary boy, until the day he is rescued from a terrible death and finds himself thrown into an astonishing new adventure. Can it be that it is his destiny to save Lyonesse? As Idris begins to discover his true self, he learns he must rely on his wits, his courage, and his friends in the face of an overwhelming darkness that threatens to swallow up everything he loves. This epic tale leads readers on an extraordinary journey into a world of magic and monsters a journey fraught with peril at every turn. Can one boy and girl stand in the way of a colossal evil with its roots sunk deep in ages of wickedness? Praise for Lyonesse, Book I: The Well Between the Worlds: ‘Quietly superb prose and a memorable, unassuming hero make this Arthurian flavored world fresh and beautiful even when it’s bitterly ugly…
. A rich and unpretentious gem.’ KIRKUS REVIEWS starred ‘ R eaders will be sucked into Idris’ adventure, eager to find out the extent of his destiny and the fate of his beleaguered land.’ BOOKLIST ‘A good recommendation for young Arthurians or for avid fantasy fans.’ INSTRUCTOR

Darksolstice

Not long ago twelve year old Idris Limpet was just an ordinary schoolboy. That was until he was taken from his home and taught to tame monsters from another world. Then he pulled a sword out of a stone. Now, he is Idris House Draco, Rightful King of the Land of Lyonesse. Rightful kings have their problems, however, and Idris has his fair share. He is an exile hunted from his country by the evil regent Fisheagle and her wicked son Murther. Moreover, Idris’s dear friend and sister Morgan has been carried off as a slave to the distant land of Aegypt. And before he can return to fight for his throne and his people, Idris must make the treacherous journey to rescue Morgan…
. But Idris is never on his own, for as he travels, he meets a company of friends. Friends who shall become Idris’s faithful Knights of the Round Table, who will raise armies and return with Idris and Morgan to challenge Fisheagle’s monstrous armies and reclaim his Kingdom of Lyonesse unless it is already too late. Praise for Lyonesse, Book I: THE WELL BETWEEN THE WORLDS: ‘Quietly superb prose and a memorable, unassuming hero make this Arthurian flavored world fresh and beautiful even when it’s bitterly ugly…
. A rich and unpretentious gem.’ KIRKUS REVIEWS starred Sam Llewellyn’s book in two parts, LYONESSE, has its roots in the world of Arthurian legend, but Sam has made the story and characters his own, drawing on a range of sources to create a fabulously rich and fresh adventure for every child, not just those with an interest in King Arthur.

Dead Reckoning

Charlie Agutter is the popular designer of revolutionary ocean going yachts. But when his brother is killed sailing one of his gleaming boats, everyone suspects the design is at fault but Charlie knows better and sniffs sabotage. With so much money hanging on the forthcoming Captain’s Cup race, it looks like someone has it in for Charlie. He must act fast to win back his good name and livelihood not to mention the race

Blood Orange

The racing trimaran Street Express is anchored in a gale off the coast of southern Ireland. Jimmy Dixon, widower, single father and timber yard owner, and his long time friend Ed Boniface are championship sailors. Tragedy strikes when the third crew member is washed over board in the storm or is he? The adrenalin pumps from the first pages of this taut ocean racing drama: Dixon is caught up in a tale of intrigue and high finance, with the beautiful Agn’s at his side.

Death Roll

Here is the next pulse stirring sea thriller from the author of Dead Reckoning and Blood Orange. Martin Devereaux has just watched his half a million pound boat sink, taking his shot at the America’s Cup with it. Back home on the English coast, Devereaux experiences trouble at his boatyard when extortion, sabotage, and murder plots are exposed gathering speed in a race toward a final and fatal confrontation. HC: Summitt Books.

Deadeye

Harry Frazer, ‘the smoothest divorce lawyer west of Reading’, is single handedly navigating the Green Dolphin in darkness up the perilous west coast of Scotland. Out of nowhere the great black hulk of a ship looms and bears down on the little boat as Harry frantically tries to steer clear. In the din a man falls overboard Harry rescues him from the cold, dark, polluted water only to find himself drawn into a tense, nailbiting mystery threatening ecological and personal disaster

Blood Knot

Bill Tyrrell, sometime war correspondent and captain of the elderly cutter Vixen, has made it across the North Sea in a gale with a crew of eight unruly teenagers on release from the Probation Service. Now heading from the Thames estuary to historic Chatham docks for the Tall Ships celebrations, little can go wrong. But in the darkness, Vixen collides with the wreck of a small dinghy and something snags the propeller…
a body. It seems that Bill’s past is about to catch up with him.

Riptide

The quaint village of Pulteney in Devon, England, depends upon the sea for its existence. The launch of a brand new, cutting edge design yacht is therefore a major occasion, and fittingly the Arc en ciel is named with due ceremony by the French Ambassador. But all is not well Savage Yachts’ order book is empty, and on its maiden voyage the Arc en ciel dangerously and mysteriously ships water. Mick Savage needs some answers.

Clawhammer

Poet, explorer and expert on a very particular kind of duck, George Devis has been visiting his sister and her Country and Western singer boyfriend in Ethiopia, where they work on an aid project. As he leaves with their two sons to return to England, armed bandits attack the settlement and the couple suffer a gruesome death. Determined to discover the truth about what happened, he teams up with a Boston journalist on the trail of the perpetrators. First off, a grueling transatlantic race to publicize the cause during which their boat is fired on and the journalist dies. And so George finds himself enmeshed in a deadly international conspiracy

Maelstrom

78 year old Ernie Johnson, experienced yachtsman, dyed in the wool leftie and pacifist, sails toward Ireland aboard The Worker’s Paradise. When Customs Inspectors board the boat, they find a huge cache of arms and whisk Ernie away to face the music. His nephew Fred Hope, ‘conservation’s Che Guevara’ with his own reputation as a wild man, visits the old man in prison, only to find that he appears to have forgotten who he is. What follows is a compulsive tale of international treachery, Russian Mafiosi, stolen art treasures and political ghosts from the past set against the freezing backdrop of the Norwegian Sea in winter.

The Shadow in the Sands

a continuation of the celebrated story of intrigue, treachery and adventure at sea begun in Erskine Childers’ epoch making thriller The Riddle of the Sands, this affectionate tribute to the world’s first spy novel is a brilliantly original, utterly enthralling thriller in its own right.

The Iron Hotel

Hired to captain the rusty old Glory of Saipan, full of illegal immigrants bound for California, Jenkins finds that unless he obeys the rules of this Iron Hotel violence OK, sex with the cargo OK, but no falling in love he will end up with a dead daughter. But he makes his own rules too, and on the trip across the Pacific hatches an ingenious way out.

Pegleg

Sam Llewellyn here turns his formidable storytelling talents to a break neck speed adventure tale for children: Gussie Smith is in trouble again! Slimy Snell, the Truant Officer, will deport him from the beautiful Isles of Scilly back to the mainland, unless he can keep his nose out of trouble. Then along comes Arthur Hopcraft and his tin leg, and Gussie is thrown into a whirlwind of very unusual disasters and exciting adventures at sea. Who knows where it will all end…
?

The Sea Garden

The Walton Jones family have inherited a beautiful garden set on an island off the southwestern tip of England. Upon digging up a skeleton, that could be an archaeological find or a murder victim, a series of events unfolds that shatters their idyll.

Little Darlings

Primrose, Cassian and Daisy Darling are very bad children. Papa Darling and Mrs Darling the children’s mum scarpered long ago both know that child rearing is a task best performed by experts, not parents. Unfortunately, the Darling family nannies never last long, for quite obvious reasons. Enter Nanny Petronella Fryer Nanny Pete in a Jag XJS. Nanny Pete is different. There’s the stubble for a start. And she lets them eat anything they want no more burnt custard or lumpy porridge. They’re all about to embark on what can only be called a comic caper, which leads the Little Darlings far from home on a cruiseship full of burglars and ultimately to their own missing mum.

The Return of Death Eric

What do you mean you’ve never heard of Death Eric? Eric Thrashmettle is only, like, the singer and lead guitarist of the most famous and influential rock band ever known. Ask your dad. Eric has two kids: Lulubelle Flower Fairy and Living Buddha Thrashmettle. For obvious reasons, they prefer to be called Lou and Buddy. And they often find their dad very embarrassing. He hasn’t performed in years not since a raven pooped in his eye at the Chickenstock Festival. But now his triple platinum credit card has been cut up, the bank account is empty, and the Lamorari is out of gas. His kids want their credit cards back, so Lou and Buddy must abandon all self respect and get their terminally embarrassing dad back on the road. Desperate times mean desperate measures. Protect your ears, kids! It’s The Return of Death Eric.

Abbot Dagger’s Academy and the Quest for the Holy Grail

Abbot Dagger’s Academy is a boarding school for children so weird, bad or dangerously brilliant they must be locked up far from civilization…
Onyx, Owen and Rosetti are the weirdest, baddest and brilliantest. They have to win the Greyte Cup for Achievement by Founders’ Day. But first they have to find it. Easy, right? Wrong! The Greyte Cup is no ordinary Skool trophy. It’s the Holy Grail! And someone has hidden it somewhere in the trackless wastes of time!! So they’d better blast off right now! Monty Python meets St Trinian’s in this brilliantly bonkers comic adventure. The raid of the Knights Templar, the drowning of Atlantis and the extinction of the dinosaurs as only Sam Llewellyn can tell it!

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