Sam Llewellyn (born 1948) is a British
author
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of
literature
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for children and adults.
Biography
Sam Llewellyn was born on
Tresco,
Isles of Scilly
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, where his ancestors lived for many years. He grew up in
Norfolk
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. He attended
Eton College
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and later
St Catherine's College, Oxford
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.
Llewellyn bio
/ref> Llewellyn went on to live in Toronto, Ontario
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, Canada
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, and Ireland
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, before settling in Herefordshire
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, England
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, where he still lives.[Profile of Sam Llewellyn on fantasticfiction.co.uk](_blank)
/ref> before becoming an author. He has become a prolific writer, and has written for both children and adults. He has also worked as a journalist with newspapers and magazines from both America
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and Britain.
Personal life
Llewellyn is married to Canadian
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children's author Karen Wallace. They have two sons.
Works
Novels for adults
* ''Gurney's Release'' (1979)
* ''Gurney's Revenge'' (1981) – a.k.a. ''Sea Devil''
* ''Gurney's Reward'' (1981)
* ''Hell Bay'', Arch, 1984,
* ''Great Circle'', Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1987, (a.k.a. ''Sea Story'')
* ''The Shadow in the Sands'', 1998, (a "sequel" to the Erskine Childers novel "'' The Riddle of the Sands''")
* ''The Sea Garden'', 1999,
* ''The Iron Hotel'', 2000,
* ''The Malpas Legacy'', 2001,
Navarone series
(written as authorised sequels to the Alistair MacLean novels "'' The Guns of Navarone''" and "'' Force 10 from Navarone''"
* ''Storm Force from Navarone'', HarperCollins, 1996
* ''Thunderbolt from Navarone'', HarperCollins, 1998
* The four Navarone novels are published as an omnibus volume "''The Complete Navarone''", HarperCollins, 2008 (HB) & 2011 (PB) .
Sailing thrillers
(set in and around the fishing village of Pulteney)
* ''Dead Reckoning'', 1987
* ''Blood Orange'', 1988
* ''Death Roll'', 1989
* ''Dead Eye'', 1990
* ''Bloodknot'', 1991
* ''Riptide'', 1992
* ''Clawhammer'', 1993
* ''Maelstrom'', 1994
* ''Black Fish'', 2010
Non fiction
* ''The Worst Journey in the Midlands'', 1983
* ''Emperor Smith - the man who built Scilly''
* ''The Minimum Boat'', Adlard Coles Nautical, 2010
For children
Monsters of Lyonesse series
* ''Lyonesse:The Well Between The Worlds'', Scholastic 2009
* ''Lyonesse:Dark Solstice'', Scholastic 2010
Darlings series
* ''Little Darlings'', Puffin, 2004,
* ''Bad, Bad Darlings'', Puffin Books, 2005,
* ''Desperado Darlings'', Puffin Books, 2006,
Death Eric
* ''The Return of Death Eric'', Puffin, 2005,
* ''The Haunting of Death Eric'', Puffin Books, 2006,
Others
* ''The Magic Boathouse'', Walker Books Ltd, 1994,
* ''The Rope School'', Walker Books Ltd, 1995,
* ''Pig in the Middle'', Walker Books Ltd, 1996,
* ''The Polecat Cafe'', Walker Books Ltd, 1998,
* ''Nelson - the sailor who dared to win'', Short Books, 2004,
* ''Pegleg'',
* ''Wonderdog''
See also
* Tresco
References
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People from the Isles of Scilly
Living people
British children's writers
1948 births
British male novelists