Fay Sampson

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  • Bibliography:
    36 Books (5 Series)
  • First Book:
    February 1980
  • Latest Book:
    June 2019
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Full Series List in Order

The Aidan Mysteries

1 - The Hunted Hare (Oct-2012)
2 - Death of Lindisfarne (Apr-2013)
3 - A Corpse in Holy Waters (Nov-2014)

Daughter of Tintagel

1 - Wise Woman's Telling (Aug-1989)
2 - White Nun's Telling (Nov-1989)
3 - Black Smith's Telling (Aug-1990)
4 - Taliesin's Telling (Jul-1991)

Pangur Ban

1 - Pangur Ban: The White Cat (Nov-1983)
2 - Finnglas of the Horses (1985)
3 - Finnglas and the Stones of Choosing (Jan-1986)
4 - Shape-Shifter: The Naming of Pangur Ban (Jan-1988)
5 - The Serpent of Senargad (Jan-1989)
6 - The White Horse Is Running (Jun-1990)

A Suzie Fewings Genealogical Mystery

1 - In the Blood (Aug-2009)
2 - A Malignant House (Feb-2010)
3 - Those in Peril (Oct-2010)
4 - Father Unknown (Dec-2011)
5 - The Overlooker (Mar-2013)
6 - Beneath the Soil (Jun-2014)

A West Country Mystery

1 - The Wounded Thorn (Jun-2015)
2 - The Wounded Snake (Jun-2019)

Book List in Order: 36 titles

  • The Watch on Patterick Fell

  • Pangur Ban: The White Cat

    Pangur Ban - 1

    "Now! Now you shall see what happens to those who would break the spell of mermaids!" Deep down in the underwater kingdom, Princess Finnglas is in the deadly grip of an evil sea monster, and the mermaids have bewitched Niall. Pangur Bán, the white c...

  • Finnglas of the Horses

    Pangur Ban - 2

    This series follows the exploits of the white cat, Pangur Ban, his friend Niall and the Princess Finnglas. In the second book in the series, the princess is on a quest to find her beloved lost horse, but this is only the beginning of a great adventur...

  • Finnglas and the Stones of Choosing

    Pangur Ban - 3

    "On, Cloudâ€"Clearer, on!" screamed Princess Finnglas. But she knew her horse was already pouring out all his strength. And the rival black stallion was still ahead. Finnglas is riding for her life and the crown. If she loses, she will die and the Su...

  • Shape-Shifter: The Naming of Pangur Ban

    Pangur Ban - 4

    Deep in a mountain cave a witch is plotting mischief: "We need something small, something sly, to carry a spell . . . and then we shall see who reigns on the Black Mountain!" The kitten Shape-Shifter is her victim. But before the charm is complete, t...

  • Jenny and the Wreckers

    Jenny's father is keeper of a lighthouse on the cruellest rocks. Each night he lights the lamp but one night he is attacked on his way home. Jenny is on her own in the lighthouse and must get the lamp lit to thwart the wreckers. Drawing on all her sk...

  • The Serpent of Senargad

    Pangur Ban - 5

    Under the spell of the evil Rhymester the once peaceful kingdom of Senargad has become a place of fear, death, and destruction, where the savage Wolf-Guard roam the country and prisoners are held captive in subterranean caverns by the terrible Serpen...

  • Wise Woman's Telling

    Daughter of Tintagel - 1

  • White Nun's Telling

    Daughter of Tintagel - 2



  • The White Horse Is Running

    Pangur Ban - 6

  • Black Smith's Telling

    Daughter of Tintagel - 3

  • A Free Man on Sunday

  • Taliesin's Telling

    Daughter of Tintagel - 4

  • The Silent Fort

    The Roman army is invading Devon. In hill forts and sacred groves, druids and warriors quarrel over the fate of their tribe, and the chief's son, Aidan the Red Fox, takes matters into his own hands. Cairenn is on the brink of marriage to Aidan, and h...

  • Them

    Berlewen is trapped in a past she has not chosen, denied any modern technology. Honesty, her servant, longs to free her family, now enslaved in a weapons factory. Only Map, the boot-boy, seems sure of the freedom promised to them in an ancient song. ...

  • Island Pilgrimage

    Margaret has a precious, delicate friendship with Brian, the minister of her church. But when they take a group of teenagers to the Hebrides, their relationship crosses a dangerous threshold. Are their spouses right to react jealously? And what must ...

  • Morgan Le Fay 1

    Morgan le Fay is the neglected daughter of the Duke of Cornwall and his beautiful wife Ygerne. Her childhood is tragically altered when King Uther Pendragon sets eyes on her mother. He kills her adored father. By Merlyn's magic, he enters the convent...

  • Morgan Le Fay 2

    The teenage Luned left her farm with the dream of becoming a scholar-nun on Tintagel. Her hard-won success is now thrown into danger by the arrival of a bitter nine-year-old. Accused of trying to kill her baby brother Arthur, Morgan is imprisoned on ...

  • Morgan Le Fay 3

    Teilo is a Cumbrian blacksmith, high in the secret Old Religion. When his young king Urien marries an unknown princess from Cornwall, he sees that Morgan is another of his kind. He forms an ambition to link her power to his. But he fatally misunderst...



  • Morgan Le Fay 4

    The young bard Taliesin comes to the court of King Urien and Queen Morgan. His dream is to make an immortal song about the deeds of King Arthur. His fear is that he was born too late. Arthur is ageing. He uncovers the dark secret of the birth of Morg...

  • The Sorcerer's Trap

    In a parched region, the Yadu have conquered the desirable fertile land of their Xarappan neighbors. The powerless Xarappans are exiled, kept out by a sorcerer’s fence. Their only weapons are primitive and useless, but they do have one crucial asse...

  • Morgan Le Fay 5

    'I am Morgan the Fay. The wicked witch, the embodiment of evil. And yet. I am the queen who takes Arthur in my arms for healing. Some editing of the story will clearly be necessary.' Morgan stands by Dozmary Pool after the Battle of Camlann, pleading...

  • The Land of Angels

    Princess Bertha of Paris is shocked to learn of her impending marriage to the heathen king of Kent. But their barbaric world is dramatically changed by the coming of Augustine from Rome, on a mission to impress his hero, Pope Gregory the Great. As th...

  • The Sorcerer's Daughter

    Sarba, daughter of Lord Cozuman, the High Sorcerer of the Yadu, hates and fears the Xerappan people whose land the Yadu have taken. Sarba's mother is an invalid following a Xerappan terrorist attack on her life. Sarba is unexpectedly sent on a missio...

  • Lifepath

    Hard Rock is an exciting historical adventure story for children aged 8 to 11. Collan is 12 and old enough to work down the mine, like his brother and father. But excitement turns to terror as a disaster on his first day shows how dangerous life is u...

  • In the Blood

    A Suzie Fewings Genealogical Mystery - 1

    The first in a fascinating new series combining mystery and genealogy - Keen family history researcher Suzie Fewings is delighted when she discovers an ancestor with the same name as her teenage son. But what she finds out about the seventeenth...

  • A Malignant House

    A Suzie Fewings Genealogical Mystery - 2

    Suzie Fewings, a keen family history researcher, is delighted to be given access to a chest of old documents at the local stately home, Hereward Court. She tries to ignore disturbing rumours about the owner, Floridus Hereward, but when she's threaten...

  • Those in Peril

    A Suzie Fewings Genealogical Mystery - 3

    A Suzie Fewings genealogical mystery - Nick Fewings, the husband of keen family history researcher Suzie, inherits a portrait of his great-grandfather, a famous lifeboatman in St Furseys. Nick and Suzie are keen to find out more, so they decide to ta...

  • Father Unknown

    A Suzie Fewings Genealogical Mystery - 4

    Suzie Fewings is working on her family tree when she meets American Prudence Clayson. Prudence has come to England to find her Puritan ancestors, but is shocked to discover that one of her ancestors was born to an unmarried mother. Suzie helps Pruden...



  • The Hunted Hare

    The Aidan Mysteries - 1

    CRT Awards - Fiction Book of the Year 2013“A wonderfully atmospheric story of sudden death in a secluded Welsh valley.”Pennant Melangell lies at the head of a mountain valley in North Wales. It consists of a church, with the medieval shrine and p...

  • The Overlooker

    A Suzie Fewings Genealogical Mystery - 5

    Keen family-history researcher Suzie Fewings takes a trip to discover more about her husband’s ancestors, but what she finds puts those she loves in danger . . . Suzie Fewings, a keen family-history researcher, is delighted when her husband, Nic...

  • Death of Lindisfarne

    The Aidan Mysteries - 2

    'She creates such a feeling of the atmosphere of this Northumbrian island.' Crediton Country CourierGrieving the loss of wife and mother, Aidan and Melangell visit the renowned spiritual retreat center on the British island of Lindisfarne so Aidan ca...

  • Beneath the Soil

    A Suzie Fewings Genealogical Mystery - 6

    Genealogy-enthusiast Suzie Fewings and her family are on a family-history trip to Saddlers Wood Farm when they hear a gunshot ringing out. The local farmer and his wife, Philip and Eileen, seem strangely agitated and upset, and direct them to a ruine...

  • A Corpse in Holy Waters

    The Aidan Mysteries - 3

    What secrets could Lucy be hiding, and why is a “Dead Man” following her as she visits holy wells in Cornwall? And could her secret harm a child? When widowed photographer Aidan is invited to visit the holy wells of Cornwall he does not expect t...

  • The Wounded Thorn

    A West Country Mystery - 1

    The first in a thrilling new mystery series set around the sacred historical sites of the British Isles Recently retired teacher Hilary decides that the best way to stop herself worrying about her husband, who’s away doing voluntary work in war-...

  • The Wounded Snake

    A West Country Mystery - 2

    Amateur sleuths Hilary Masters and Veronica Taylor face a real-life murder mystery at a crime writing weekend. Is a dark conspiracy unfolding on a West Country estate? Friends Hilary Masters and Veronica Taylor are eager to embark upon their weekend...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Fay Sampson has published 36 books.

Fay Sampson does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Wounded Snake, was published in June 2019.

The first book by Fay Sampson, The Watch on Patterick Fell, was published in February 1980.

Yes. Fay Sampson has 5 series.
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