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Read it if you dare. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fb53b8254bc2e0fdab2876c/1606042110157-O3UGKOGDS7G1M1XKU9YZ/Black-Fish-Sam-Llewellyn.jpg Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fb53b8254bc2e0fdab2876c/1606042179025-WQHV8GENDTJ189IJFUUU/singlehand+Sam+Llewellyn.jpg Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fb53b8254bc2e0fdab2876c/1606042237832-VXWVDB1FUGYPNBXWRE5H/Dead-Reckoning-Sam-Llewellyn.jpg Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fb53b8254bc2e0fdab2876c/1606042267454-8UNHJLAH3B8VLACME7UF/Deadeye-sam-llewellyn.jpg Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fb53b8254bc2e0fdab2876c/1606128545123-ZPENMDPALJTNXMYMDXFO/Maelstrom+Sam+Llewellyn.jpg Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fb53b8254bc2e0fdab2876c/1607169494961-5WGV8UAGVSAYJDBQOQLP/shadow+cover.jpg Home https://www.samllewellyn.com/biography daily 0.75 2020-12-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fb53b8254bc2e0fdab2876c/1605967614577-FAB2UCXP6E5VJ83ED0EU/Sam+Llewellyn.jpg About - Sam Llewellyn Sam Llewellyn was born on Tresco, Isles of Scilly, thirty miles west of Land’s End, Britain’s southwesternmost point. He was brought up between the coast road and the sea in North Norfolk, and writes continuously, fiction and non-fiction, usually about the sea or matters connected with it. Since 2010 he has been the Editor of the Marine Quarterly . He is married to the prizewinning Canadian children’s author Karen Wallace. They live in a medieval farmhouse in Herefordshire, England’s most beautiful county. He spends months every year sailing from his base in the family bothy on the west coast of Scotland. https://www.samllewellyn.com/sea-thrillers daily 0.75 2020-12-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fb53b8254bc2e0fdab2876c/1605965456042-8NAAFHKWHWTYE99B5AEV/Deadeye-sam-llewellyn.jpg Sea Thrillers - Deadeye The west coast of Scotland is Europe’s finest and loneliest cruising ground. The same year I went there for the first time, I met a fisherman who had discovered the secret of the steady income, so much sought after by fishermen.. When he occasionally trawled up a WWII naval mine in his nets, he received big-scale compensation for lost fishing time. So in his shed he had started a collection of these mines, rusty, lethal, and sweating nitroglycerine, for use on slow fishing days. You will understand that this was too hot to ignore. What happens when a divorce lawyer sailing in the North of Scotland picks up a man who has fallen overboard from a ship in the middle of the night? For one thing, nobody thanks him. For another, his life seems to be in danger. But then it turns out that there is a lot more than his life at stake. Things like unexploded mines, and toxic waste, and the his ex-wife, and his future with the woman he loves…. “A brilliantly conceived and executed thriller, with stunning set pieces…. written with unflagging pace and elegance”, Literary Review https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fb53b8254bc2e0fdab2876c/1605965500398-TM66N6AC0NJ9E1JJRGY1/Blood-Knot-Sam-Llewellyn.jpg Sea Thrillers - Blood Knot Autumn in the Archipelago between Stockholm and Turku in the Baltic. Millions of birds are migrating,, elks swim among the thousands of islands, and the Finns are picking mushrooms, some of which are not toxic. It is a beautiful, mysterious place to sail. The Tall Ships are gathered at Chatham, in the Thames Estuary, for their annual race. Vixen, owned by ex war correspondent Bill Tyrrell, has eight young offenders on board, for the good of their souls. In the middle of the celebrations, they discover a ninth person – a dead Russian, wrapped round the propellor. There is plenty of explaining to do. But nobody is listening to Tyrrell’s explanations, particularly when his past starts messing up the present… “The best seaborne thriller in many a tide”, Daily Mail https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fb53b8254bc2e0fdab2876c/1605965661046-8VU6UXTE48JNHY4MHJMK/Riptide-Sam-Llewellyn.jpg Sea Thrillers - Riptide La Rochelle is a lovable town, and a great relief to find at the end of a lumpy voyage across the Bay of Biscay. But behind its beauty is something harder. It was besieged by Cardinal Richelieu during the Huguenot era.. And its fortifications, beautifully intact, still hint at a capacity for violence. Nobody sails like the French – the speed, the style, the pride, the seamanship. And, as Mick Savage, boatbuilder, is about to discover, the violence. Because someone out there seems to have taken against Mick. And his friend Thibault Ledoux owes money to people it is not wise to owe money to, and it looks as if he may wind up dead. The sexy, complicated world of La Rochelle’s big-time sailors is dangerous as hell. And not only because of the weather in the Bay of Biscay. “For excitement, elegance and sheer virtuosity, Llewellyn’s books sail rings round the competition” Literary Review https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fb53b8254bc2e0fdab2876c/1605965353442-SPUDL7CAKFOW0AMRZUY1/Blood-Orange-Sam-Llewellyn.jpg Sea Thrillers - Blood Orange Multihulls are the fastest things on water. After a trip across channel in a racing catamaran that left me deeply excited but with two black eyes from green water coming across the foredeck at thirty knots, it was obvious that I had to write a catamaran book. French multihull sailors are the Formula One drivers of the sea, with the nerve, the power, and the temperament. They do not take kindly to British sailors horning in on their circuit. So when a man is washed off the trimaran Street Express in an Irish anchorage, the police know where to look. But appearances can be deceptive…. “Sam Llewellyn sends the salt spray flying”, Sunday Express https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fb53b8254bc2e0fdab2876c/1605965732594-4YYPX77ZOYABJ9TMA4PW/Maelstrom+Sam+Llewellyn.jpg Sea Thrillers - Maelstrom I have always been a keen collector of whirlpools – the Old Sow in Eastport, Maine, the Corryvreckan off the Isle of Jura, and most of all the Maelstrom in the Lofoten Islands, immortalised by Edgar Allen Poe (who never saw it) I am also disgusted by Norway’s whaling policies, an exploitation of natural resources that dates from an earlier, more fascistic age. These two things together lie at the root of this book. Seventy-eight-year-old Ernie Johnson, scrap dealer, Spanish Civil War veteran and dyed-in-the wool leftie, sails towards Ireland in his rustbucket freighter Worker’s Paradise. When Customs searches the ship, they find a huge arms cache. Ernie says he has been framed, but he would, wouldn’t he? The only person who believes his innocence is his nephew, Fred Hope. And Fred is no saint himself, having a dodgy past in ecoterrorism and other blood sports. But Fred investigates. And finds himself way over his head in some lethal business. Including the Russian mafia, stolen art treasures, whale poachers, and political ghosts from the Fascist past. Oh, and the North Sea… “An ingenious story, well written and so detailed in its description of the Norwegian Sea that you can feel the chill in your bones”, Mail on Sunday https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fb53b8254bc2e0fdab2876c/1605964839811-PRMOCXT0KRTOO5GQQVX1/Black-Fish-Sam-Llewellyn.jpg Sea Thrillers - Black Fish BLACK FISH is the story of a difficult passage in the life of Gavin Chance – yacht broker, ex-policeman and gone-to-seed Olympic hopeful. He is being hunted by his ex-wife and his creditors. And even more worryingly, by some representatives of the fishing industry who make their living massacring fish stocks and doing even worse things to people. It is time for Gavin to go on the run – in a beat-up trawler, on a classic schooner, and in one-design racing yachts built for gentlemen and sailed by gangsters. When Gavin is on the run, he usually thinks he is running away from trouble. It is just one of the many flaws in his character that in fact he is generally running towards it… Buy now from www.bookharbour.com, or https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fb53b8254bc2e0fdab2876c/1605965410246-OAK3U5COM6AP7YGDU5UI/death-roll-sam-llewellyn.jpg Sea Thrillers - Death Roll I once ran the day shift in a bar in Spain’s Costa del Sol. Here I met two brothers from East London, one of whom could knock out a donkey with his bare fist, and the other of whom did stuff that I cannot mention, except to say it was very illegal, indeed. There are a lot of boats there, huge amounts of money, and not much extradition.. The stories just fall into your lap. When an elderly boatyard owner suddenly decides to go visiting on Spain’s Costa del Crime, there are those who say it is perfectly natural. His wife is not among them. She says it is right out of character, and asks her friend Martin Devereux, a twelve-meter sailor full of nothing but bad attitude, to investigate. And very soon after that, Martin is wishing he had never started…. “An immaculately timed, tense adventure”, Mail on Sunday https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fb53b8254bc2e0fdab2876c/1605964513529-6XVSLADQBLA457M1NO04/singlehand+Sam+Llewellyn.jpg Sea Thrillers - Singlehand The other day I was surprised to find that it is more than seven years since I wrote a thriller. So I wrote another, featuring one Gavin Chance, hero, for want of a more precise word, of Black Fish. Gavin, in case you are interested, is the nephew of a certain Harry Chance, now resident in a home for reprobates in Marbella, and author of a deeply unsuitable book called The Bounder’s Companion. Gavin has had a past in racing yachts, the police and the army. He was a handy enough racer, but did not make much of a mark in the public services – partly, perhaps, because at that time of his life he had a great enthusiasm for whisky. This tended to twist his worldview, and he spent a lot of time getting into trouble, and even more time trying to get out of it, as readers of Black Fish will have discovered. So it is ironic that in Singlehand, the sequel to Black Fish, a Gavin who has cleaned up his act and renounced whisky finds himself working as skipper of a superyacht belonging to an oligarch who plans to take some friends on a tour of the distilleries of Islay. It is hard to see how anything can go wrong. A hijack and a shipwreck later, it is hard to see how anything can go wronger. Not for the first time, Gavin finds himself lost in a maze of disasters. But the only way out is forwards…. Buy now from www.bookharbour.com, or https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fb53b8254bc2e0fdab2876c/1605965317135-QROMPDXV6D9I9V0QYTS4/Dead-Reckoning-Sam-Llewellyn.jpg Sea Thrillers - Dead Reckoning People lose their cool on boats. I had always wondered whether this ever went as far as murder. In this, the first of the Pulteney books, I decided to make it happen.. Charlie Agutter has designed a revolutionary boat. Then his brother is killed sailing one, and the design is blamed. Griefstruck Charlie knows better. With the Captain’s Cup races approaching and fortunes hanging in the balance, Charlie suspects sabotage. He needs to find out who has done it, to win back his good name, his livelihood, and to win the race. Oh, and to save his sister-in-law’s life… “Slick, readable, racy and punchy – an outstanding thriller”, Sunday Express https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fb53b8254bc2e0fdab2876c/1605965699310-4NW52OHKFAGUBHLEAOV0/Clawhammer+Sam+Llewellyn.jpg Sea Thrillers - Clawhammer Maine does fog like nowhere else in the world. The sea is green and icy cold, full of whales, bursting on marble beaches. Inside the fog lurks a culture that is ancient and insular and sometimes hostile – an ideal background for weirdness and mayhem. When someone kills your sister and her country-and-western singer boyfriend in Ethiopia, you might think that it is an ending. But for George Devis, it is a beginning – of a sequence of events that starts with a murder in a transatlantic race, and leads up the eastern seaboard of America and into an international conspiracy. It is a conspiracy that it would be nice to walk away from. But once you have found out it exists, it is too late to walk away… “This rare treat should send readers in search of Llewellyn’s earlier novels”, American Bookseller https://www.samllewellyn.com/non-fiction-books daily 0.75 2020-12-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fb53b8254bc2e0fdab2876c/1605972144165-RHBA86H3C3C9L8NWGI3J/Yacky+dar+moy+Bewty%21+A+phrasebook+to+the+regions+of+Britain+%28with+Irish+supplement%29+Sam+Llewellyn.jpg Non-fiction books - Yacky dar moy Bewty! A phrasebook to the regions of Britain (with Irish supplement) The English-speaking traveller in non-English-speaking countries is well provided with phrasebooks. In England, things are different. Stray thirty miles from home or arrivals lounge, and you will find yourself in a country whose language is totally unfamiliar. Baffled and stammering, you will find yourself in danger of misunderstanding, impatience, and xenophobic violence. This book provides a handy guide to the languages of Britain’s regions, and will spare the reader a load of embarrassment – pointing out, for instance, that a pony is a small horse in the country, £25 at Newmarket Races, and something really disgusting in Southeast London. No home should be without one. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fb53b8254bc2e0fdab2876c/1605971831010-FIFEMKHCKVHPG5SSMJJD/Emperor+Smith+%E2%80%93+the+man+who+built+Scilly+Sam+Llewellyn.jpg Non-fiction books - Emperor Smith – the man who built Scilly When Augustus Smith became Lord Proprietor of the Isles of Scilly in 1834, the islands were approaching the final stages of anarchy, dereliction and famine. Smith was a man with advanced social theories. He saw in Scilly the ideal laboratory for testing these theories. His wise but arbitrary rule soon learned him the nickname of Emperor – loved by some, hated by others, respected by all. During his reign he tirelessly championed the weak against the strong. He rebuilt farms, quays and houses, and introduced an educational system forty years in advance of the one prevailing on the mainland. And he founded and laid out Tresco Abbey Gardens, still one of the wonders of the world, though no longer (as in Augustus’ day) populated by forty ostriches. So who was Augustus Smith, and why did he never marry, and what possessed this sprig of a Home Counties banking family to attach his fortunes to wild, lovely Scilly? This book uses material from hitherto unseen and inaccessible archives to paint an extraordinary picture of the public, private and secret life of an extraordinary and colourful man. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fb53b8254bc2e0fdab2876c/1605971945794-DDT8QII7TD9ETM2YOC8A/wjnonfic.jpg Non-fiction books - The Worst Journey in the Midlands Illustrations by Chris Aggs I wrote this book after living out of England for six years. When I returned, I found that the travel book had taken over from the novel. In place of characters, chance encounters along the route. In place of plot, itinerary. In place of protagonist, narrator. Eager to keep up with the trend, and even more eager to satirise it, I filled up the holes in an ancient open boat, and rowed it from the source of the Severn to the Houses of Parliament. This occupied the wettest October since records began. The book has been described as ‘a little masterpiece of gloom.’ I cannot argue with this. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fb53b8254bc2e0fdab2876c/1605972018086-BBO8H2E8PJFIP45EB3UT/The+Bounder%E2%80%99s+Companion%3B+a+manual+of+Good+Advice.jpg Non-fiction books - The Bounder’s Companion; a manual of Good Advice, by Harry Chance I met Harry Chance in a casino in Aruba some thirty years ago. Even then he was a strange figure, toothbrush-moustached, Panama-hatted, out of his time. But after he had taught me how to play Persian Monarchs (cut a deck of cards; highest card wins) I found myself greatly in his debt. In exchange for his letting me off this financial obligation, I agreed to ghost-write his laws for easy living. I am often asked if the book was a success. Well, the librarian of the House of Lords tells me that of the four copies of the original edition bought for the House, three were immediately stolen. You may draw your own conclusions. By the way, I found out the other day that Gavin Chance, the protagonist of my thriller Black Fish, is some sort of nephew of Harry’s. Which just goes to show that unreliable narration runs in families. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fb53b8254bc2e0fdab2876c/1605972090697-Q3SJBI6UFD5LNN6BEMXX/Small+Parts+in+History+Sam+Llewellyn.jpg Non-fiction books - Small Parts in History Great events often have small causes. Think of Kermit Tyler, on radar watch at Pearl Harbour, who in 1942 dismissed a huge flock of approaching echoes as a flight of geese, only to find out the hard way that it was in fact the Japanese Air Force. Think of the ancient peasant woman whose cakes Alfred the Great burned while he schemed the invention of the British Navy. Think of William Webb Ellis, first man to pick up a football and run with it. Without these nonentities, history would have been very different. There are seventy-seven of them in this book, all obscure, all crucial. https://www.samllewellyn.com/novels daily 0.75 2020-12-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fb53b8254bc2e0fdab2876c/1605973690997-0DZVPWUNSO3LII744RI4/The-Iron-Hotel-Sam-Llewellyn.jpg Novels - The Iron Hotel Several Februaries ago, I read a newspaper story about a rustbucket freighter that had run itself aground on New York’s Coney Island beach, and discharged a swarm of illegal immigrants into the freezing surf. It had taken them three months to travel from the South China Sea. Conditions on board had been bad. But it was hard to find out just how bad, because the immigrants had either vanished into New York or been repatriated. So I decided that I had to write a novel about life on a ship full of illegal immigrants. The research for this book took me into meetings with pirate-hunters in the Sulu Sea, conferences in the boardroooms of Hong Kong and all the way across the Pacific in a rustbucket freighter. “Llewellyn’s writing is clean, flowing, unaffected, sometimes with a touch of poetry… may he sail on and on”, New York Times https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fb53b8254bc2e0fdab2876c/1605973894804-LX1MH6UBYPYT10SSRNT9/shadow+in+the+sands+Sam+Llewellyn.jpg Novels - The Shadow in the Sands I have always admired Erskine Childers’ book The Riddle of the Sands. For one thing, it was the first modern thriller. For another, it is one of the greatest novels about living and sailing on small boats. The story, in case you have not read it, concerns the discovery of German plans to invade Britain in 1902, and their thwarting by Davies and Carruthers, a pair of amateur yachtsmen. The Riddle’s only flaw is that the villain, the renegade and class traitor Dollmann, drowns himself from shame at the denouement. This flaw has always bugged me – I have met many villains, and none of them showed any trace of this kind of self-sacrifice. So after several cruises in the Frisian islands I wrote The Shadow in the Sands, being the story of the events of the subsequent year, told not by a gentleman yachtsman, but by Charlie Webb, a paid hand or hired crewman on a gentleman’s yacht. This is the first book in which a paid hand has his say. The perspective is working-class, the language earthy, the yachting unsportsmanlike. The book can be read on its own, or as a continuation of the Riddle – which everyone should read. “Great”, The Sunday Times “A racy and first-rate continuation of the Riddle of the Sands”, Mail on Sunday https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fb53b8254bc2e0fdab2876c/1605974301441-FQD43IG7C41DIAA1CPT9/malpas-legacy-Sam-Llewellyn.jpg Novels - The Malpas Legacy For three years the Llewellyn family lived in a semi-detached castle on a crag above Southern Ireland’s Blackwater River, a place that inhabits a special space somewhere between truth and fiction. There are many stories about the people who live on this huge, mysterious waterway. In the Malpas Legacy, I have invented a river of my own: a dark river, set about with great crumbling houses, inhabited by people who have lived in isolation for so long that they can hardly remember how the normal world functions. It is a river wound about with secrets. Some of them are mildly interesting to the historian. Others, buried in locked minds and long-lost libraries, are a matter of life and death. Particularly death. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fb53b8254bc2e0fdab2876c/1605974089360-N0YLA5FGOWM2J6NFVHA9/sea-garden-Sam-Llewellyn.jpg Novels - The Sea Garden It was Tresco that got me started on the sea. Its world-famous Abbey Gardens also got me started on gardens. A mixture of the two impelled me to write this novel. The Sea Garden is the story of a family who live on an island. It spans a hundred and fifty-odd years. During this time family members were born and fell in love and died. They also created a great and famous garden. Now it is 2001, and new terraces are being dug. A skeleton comes to light. It quickly becomes apparent that in the Sea Garden – and all others – beauty is only a by-product. Seduction is to do with procreation. Fertility comes from decay. The main business of gardens is sex and death. “Dazzling…Patrick O’Brian meets Daphne du Maurier – at last!” The Times https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fb53b8254bc2e0fdab2876c/1605973464317-0A7J1EQRNXTDAS0DRY0D/Hell-Bay-Sam-Llewellyn.jpg Novels - Hell Bay My ancestors lived on Tresco in the Isles of Scilly, thirty miles or so west of the westernmost point of Cornwall. It is a place of great beauty and violence, warmed by the sea but exposed to waves that have come all the way from America. This novel begins in 1829. It is rooted in a battle between two men for the love of beautiful Mary Prideaux, witch, healer, child of islands unchanged for thousands of years. One of the men is Nicholas Power, a Dublin doctor fleeing a shameful past. The other is the iron-willed philanthropist Augustus Smith, come to the islands to carve an ideal kingdom from the stubborn rocks and the even more stubborn people. The novel is an interweaving of historical fact, fiction and rumour, against a background of passion, mayhem and shipwreck. Hell Bay has sold nearly 100,000 copies in the Isles of Scilly (population about 2000) “A thumping great novel”, The West Briton https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fb53b8254bc2e0fdab2876c/1605973385429-KCZHKBNJQ6NJVRYTCLN2/great-circle-picture.jpg Novels - Great Circle The Great Circle is a yacht race. The instructions are simple: sail round the world, leaving the Cape of Good Hope and Cape Horn to port. Completing the race is not so simple. And winning it is very, very hard – not only because of the weather, but because there are a lot of people sailing a lot of boats, and most of these people have to win battles with their personal demons before they can even think about winning races…. Great Circle was a bestseller when it was first published. It has been out of print for ten years. 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If it doesn’t, try this: All guitar heroes need a castle for when the tabloids get on their case. Eric Thrashmettle has found one and bought it. Unfortunately it seems to come with a rather bad-tempered ghost. And not only a ghost, but quite a lot of Honganian vampires, and (worse) skveezebox players, who are trying to eat their Heavy Pies and play their terrible music in the middle of his lovely Feedback Metal concerts. The Thrashmettle children, bright and cunning as ever, must make friends with the ghost to get rid of the vampires. Sounds easy, right? Well, it isn’t…. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fb53b8254bc2e0fdab2876c/1606237855749-OCWO84VVB1781TL7L8FL/Little-Darlings-PETE.jpg Very Exciting Very Funny Books - Little Darlings I wrote this book as an act of revenge against Peter Pan, a twee and sentimental book that stresses the most glutinous parts of the British character. Little Darlings is the story of some children who have been ignored by their parents and brought up by grim, vicious nannies. When the children run away with the burglars who have come to pinch the family silver, they find that compared to themselves, burglars are kind, naive and sweet-natured. The children resolve to put this right. In the process, they make some very surprising discoveries. ‘Every now and then, a children’s book comes along that is completely different. ‘Little Darlings’ is one of these.’ The Sunday Times Book of the Week review. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fb53b8254bc2e0fdab2876c/1606239082089-K6HP06EVOKDYWSCJJCIF/The+Return+of+Death+Eric+Sam+Llewellyn Very Exciting Very Funny Books - The Return of Death Eric All right, all right. I used to be in a band, playing very loud music in very low cellars. So of course I had to write a rock and roll story. And the only kinds of rock and roll story worth telling are the rags-to-riches biopic (been done) and the Comeback (also been done, but hey, it’s a great tune, why not play it again?) So welcome to the world of guitar hero Eric Thrashmettle, dozens of roadies, a band that doesn’t want to play any more, a rock and roll wife who thinks she’s a guru, and the Thrashmettle kids, who wish their dad would stop going on about having been cursed by a raven and get on with it…. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fb53b8254bc2e0fdab2876c/1606238956356-ZYOP4KGSDXO7G03KNN3T/Desperado+Darlings+Sam+llewellyn Very Exciting Very Funny Books - Desperado Darlings The Darlings are on the move again. The mighty liner SS Kleptomanic has been wrecked. Luckily, the clever burglars have managed to nick an absolutely enormous and absolutely charming yacht, which they have called the Kleptomanic II (obviously). But strange forces are at work, calling them to the absolutely disgusting country of Nananagua, once a democracy, now a Nanny State. Who is it that is calling Chief Engineer Crown Prince Beowulf of Iceland to a date with Destiny? And why? And does anyone care? The Darlings must find out. And as they find out, you can bet that there will be plenty of trouble. Ooooooooooooooh yes. Or as they say in Nananagua, ¡Si! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fb53b8254bc2e0fdab2876c/1606238903602-P1DF356QH9VF8LYZCC0R/Bad+Bad+Darlings+Sam+Llewellyn Very Exciting Very Funny Books - Bad, bad Darlings At the end of Little Darlings, the Darling children and their long-lost Mum had taken command of the liner SS Kleptomanic and its crew of highly-trained burglars. Now they have arrived in the American city of Neverglade, where the sun is hot, the coconuts grow all year round, and the rich people are sooooooo rich they are just asking to be burgled. Things are going really well until Papa Darling, tiring of his healthy but unpleasant job cleaning the Lower Deck Lavs, escapes and tries to make a deal with the terrifyingly ghastly Gomez Elegante. And his even more ghastly and terrifying son Gomez Junior…. https://www.samllewellyn.com/category/childrens/very-very-exciting-books daily 0.75 2020-11-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fb53b8254bc2e0fdab2876c/1606239662943-AKWPL9CKOT0LQI17L3DP/PEGLEG+Sam+Llewellyn Very very exciting books - Pegleg There are spies at work on the Isles of Scilly, and the orphan Gussie Smith is on their trail. But you can’t chase spies from behind a school desk. Which means that Welfare Snell, the mean-minded Truant Officer, is on Gussie’s trail. It looks like the end result will be a grim life for Gussie with his nasty uncle on the mainland, and a grimmer life for Grannie Dole, his guardian, in the Bide-a-wee Home for the Elderly. 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More than half the population of Britain has never heard of Admiral Nelson, and half of those who have are under the impression that he commanded British forces at Waterloo. This readable and exciting life of Nelson, with the emphasis on personal struggle, cannon fire, sea battle and victory, tells the essential story of the man without whose skill at sea we might all be speaking French. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fb53b8254bc2e0fdab2876c/1606239734776-JZWYFI02V30WGG7VD2WU/Pig+in+the+Middle+Sam+Llewellyn Very very exciting books - Pig in the Middle Wester Aist is a tiny village on the west coast of Scotland. Alec Whean is the worst boy in the village, until he befriends a baby seal he find stranded in a lagoon at low tide. But there are other people in the village interested in the seal. People like the fisherman Ivan the Horrible, who reckons seals eat fish, and need shooting. Can Alec save Pig the seal? 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After his mistakes have resulted in the de-roofing of the farmhouse, the biting of a neighbour, and the discovery of the local vicar in a low den of whisky-drinkers on a Sunday, it looks as if it may be all over for him. But Cwm sheepdog trials are coming. Will he redeem himself? Knowing Bag, you would have to say probably not…. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fb53b8254bc2e0fdab2876c/1606239787412-E1WWH7A1GAZ6D3W8QII6/eye-of-the-cannon-Sam-Llewellyn Very very exciting books - Eye of the Cannon It is hard, if you are a girl in 1814 who is interested in ships. What you have to do is dress up as a boy, and go exploring. What you do not have to do is fall asleep on a Royal Navy ship, and wake up to find yourself out of sight of land, mistaken for one of the crew, chasing an American man-of-war. But that is what Kate Griffiths does. 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