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Duncan Hamilton

    Deze Ierse auteur creëert heroïsche fantasy-avonturen, waarbij hij een diepe passie voor middeleeuwse en renaissancegeschiedenis combineert met fantasierijke omgevingen. Zijn vertelstijl wordt gekenmerkt door een snel tempo, meeslepende personages en hoge inzetten, wat de verhalen weerspiegelt die hij zelf graag leest. Zijn werken behandelen thema's als verlossing, wraak en megalomanie, vaak met draken en zwaardgevechten. De verhalen verkennen regelmatig de beproevingen van onwaarschijnlijke helden die verstrikt raken in ingewikkelde plots en conflicten die hun lot vormen.

    Injury Time
    One Long and Beautiful Summer
    For the Glory
    Provided You Don't Kiss Me
    The Footballer Who Could Fly
    Answered Prayers
    • A remarkable look at the 1966 World Cup, the most famous sporting event in English history, and a portrait of an age by our greatest writer on sport.

      Answered Prayers2023
      5,0
    • Injury Time

      • 320bladzijden
      • 12 uur lezen

      Injury Time is the first novel from the great sportswriter Duncan Hamilton. It is about accepting the past and living a life in the present, hope and disappointment, success and failure and how close all of those things are in life and in the glory game.

      Injury Time2021
      3,8
    • One Long and Beautiful Summer

      • 272bladzijden
      • 10 uur lezen

      An elegiac work reflecting on the evolution of cricket since 1945 and the dramatic changes that the 2020 had promised to bring.

      One Long and Beautiful Summer2020
      4,1
    • For the Glory

      • 528bladzijden
      • 19 uur lezen

      `Eric Liddell deserves a definitive biography. After refusing to compete on religious principle in the event in which he was favourite, the 100 metres, at the 1924 Games in Paris, Liddell won an astonishing gold medal in the 400 metres.

      For the Glory2017
      4,4
    • Inspired by his father's lifelong devotion to Newcastle United, Duncan Hamilton charts the progress of postwar British football to the present day. But at the heart of the book is his exploration of the bond between father and son through the Beautiful Game and how football became the only connection between two people who were totally different from one another.

      The Footballer Who Could Fly2013
      4,5
    • Provided You Don't Kiss Me

      • 256bladzijden
      • 9 uur lezen

      `One day you'll write a book about this club. Or, more to the point, about me. So you may as well know what I'm thinking and save it up for later when it won't do any harm to anyone.'

      Provided You Don't Kiss Me2008
      4,3