Peter Tremayne
Autore di The Druids
Sull'Autore
Peter Tremayne is the fiction writing pseudonym of the Celtic scholar and author Peter Berresford Ellis, who was born in Coventry, Warwickshire, England on March 10, 1943. Even though he received a BA and an MA in Celtic Studies, he decided to become a journalist and worked at numerous weekly mostra altro newspapers throughout England and Ireland. In 1968, he published is first book, Wales: A Nation Again, about the Welsh struggle for political independence. He became a full-time writer in 1975 and has published over 90 books under his own name and the pseudonyms Peter Tremayne and Peter MacAlan. One of his best known works under his real name is The Cornish Language and its Literature, which is considered the definitive history of the language. In 1988, he received an Irish Post Award in recognition of his services to Irish historical studies. Under the pseudonym Peter Tremayne, he writes the Sister Fidelma Mystery series. He received the French Prix Historia for the best historical mystery novel of 2010 for Le Concile des Maudits (The Council of the Cursed). (Bowker Author Biography) mostra meno
Fonte dell'immagine: The International Sister Fidelma Society
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Opere di Peter Tremayne
Hell or Connaught: Cromwellian Colonisation of Ireland 1652-1660 (1975) — alcune edizioni — 55 copie
Celtic Whodunnits 7 copie
Snow Beast! 2 copie
The Siren of Sennen Cove 2 copie
Beeston Castle, Cheshire a report on the excavations 1968-85 by Laurence Keen and Peter Hough (1993) 2 copie
The Foxes of Fascoum 2 copie
The Stuart Sapphire 2 copie
The Temptations of Merlin 1 copia
Murder in the Air 1 copia
The Singing Stone 1 copia
Methought You Saw A Serpent 1 copia
Yet More Celtic Whodunnits 1 copia
Marbh Bheo [short story] 1 copia
The Specter of Tullyfane Abbey 1 copia
The Banshee 1 copia
Fireball 1 copia
Our Lady of Death [short story] 1 copia
Terreur rampante 1 copia
The Revenge of Dracula 1 copia
Dracula's Chair 1 copia
Son of Dracula 1 copia
For the Blood is the Life 1 copia
The Oath of the Saxon 1 copia
Opere correlate
The Vampire Archives: The Most Complete Volume of Vampire Tales Ever Published (2009) — Collaboratore — 184 copie
La leggenda di Camelot: le eroiche avventure dei cavalieri della tavola rotonda, alla ricerca del Santo Graal (1992) — Collaboratore — 121 copie
The Chronicles of the Holy Grail: The Ultimate Quest from the Age of Arthurian Literature (1996) — Collaboratore — 75 copie
The World's Finest Mystery and Crime Stories: First Annual Collection (2000) — Collaboratore — 59 copie
The Mammoth Book of Hearts of Oak: Classic and New Stories from the Age of Fighting Sail (2001) — Collaboratore — 33 copie
The Deadly Bride and 21 of the Year's Finest Crime and Mystery Stories: Volume II (2006) — Collaboratore — 26 copie
The Collected Classical Stories and Classic Who Dunnits/boxed Set (2 volume set) (1996) — Collaboratore — 24 copie
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Informazioni generali
- Nome legale
- Ellis, Peter Berresford
- Altri nomi
- MacAlan, Peter (pseudonym)
Tremayne, Peter (pseudonym) - Data di nascita
- 1943-03-10
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- UK
- Luogo di nascita
- Coventry, Warwickshire, England, UK
- Luogo di residenza
- Coventry, Warwickshire, England, UK
Cornwall, England, UK
Dublin, Ireland
Brighton, Sussex, England, UK - Istruzione
- North East London Polytechnic (BA ∙ 1989)
University of East London (MA ∙ 1993) - Attività lavorative
- reporter
editor
writer
historian
biographer
novelist - Organizzazioni
- Gorseth Kernow
- Premi e riconoscimenti
- Fellow of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, 1996
Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, 1998
Honorary Doctorate of Letters by the University of East London, 2006
Bard of the Cornish Gorsedd, 1987
Honorary Life President of the Scottish 1820 Society, 1989
Honorary Life Member of the Irish Literary Society, 2002 - Agente
- Euan Thorneycroft
Utenti
Recensioni
Liste
Celtic Fiction (1)
Monastic life (1)
Premi e riconoscimenti
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 149
- Opere correlate
- 76
- Utenti
- 13,477
- Popolarità
- #1,722
- Voto
- 3.7
- Recensioni
- 271
- ISBN
- 689
- Lingue
- 12
- Preferito da
- 29
That aside, Fidelma fans may appreciate the appearance of characters such as Abbot Laisran, Fidelma's distant cousin/friend (not sure? varying descriptions), who appears in three different stories in the collection (see also "A Canticle for Wulfstan" in Hemlock at Vespers). Abbot Colmán, too, appears elsewhere in the Fidelmaverse. One of the more interesting stories for those wanting more of Fidelma's backstory is "The Blemish"--it is a bit of slog unless you love socratic debate, but it is nice to see Fidelma as a young law student in examination with THE Brehon Morann (of whom we hear in almost every book). Eadulf only makes one appearance in the last story, "The Lost Eagle" (and strangely, he doesn't speak). I enjoyed "The Banshee" because one of the most interesting aspects of Fildema's character is how she has to negotiate Christianity and the old religion, without dismissing the latter wholly as "superstition" and acknowledging the powertripping aspects of the former. "The Fosterer", new to the collection, is particularly sad, as no one really "wins" at the end.
The collection would work well for someone not that familiar with the series--it definitely stands alone, and readers who follow the chronology of the series might not appreciate the disruption. It is interesting to see all the different contexts, however, and amusing to see that the stories have previous appeared volumes ranging from Great Irish Drinking Stories to The Mammoth Book of Ancient Roman Whodunits.… (altro)