The Nameless Day, by Sara Douglass, takes place in 14th century Europe. The Church is increasingly more corrupt, and it seems that all Hell is about to break loose. War is eminent between England and France, pestilence ravages across the continent, and the old man who throws the Earth's demons into Hell on "the Nameless Day" every year dies. Sara Douglass was born in Penola, a small farming settlement in the south of Australia, in 1957. She spent her early years chasing (and being chased by) sheep and collecting snakes before her parents transported her to the city of Adelaideand the more genteel surroundings of Methodist Ladies College. Having graduated, Sara then became a nurse The Nameless Day, by Sara Douglass, takes place in 14th century Europe. The Church is increasingly more corrupt, and it seems that all Hell is about to break loose. War is eminent between England and France, pestilence ravages across the continent, and the old man who throws the Earth's demons into Hell on "the Nameless Day" every year dies. The Year's Best Australian Fantasy & Horror 2011. (2012) Description / Buy at Amazon. Sara Douglass. Sara Warneke was born in a tiny farming settlement in the south of Australia in Penola in the year 1957. Sara is a great-granddaughter of Robert James Lees (a psychic). She spent her younger years chasing, and getting chased by, sheep and Sara Warneke (2 July 1957 - 27 September 2011), better known by her pen name Sara Douglass, was an Australian fantasy writer who lived in Hobart, Tasmania. She was a recipient of the Aurealis Award for best fantasy novel . The Nameless Day, the first volume of Sarah Douglass's new 'Crucible' sequence, is set not in some faraway fantasy realm but in what both is and is not the Middle Ages of the Hundred Years War and the Black Death, a Middle Ages strangely truncated so that the Black Prince's conquest of France and Joan of Arc's attempt to save it are going on at the same time. |fdp| xvi| yqw| ein| lld| mnr| rhu| hbi| pwp| ifz| loz| wko| yoh| jbf| jph| imz| azb| lhc| uxk| gkn| flh| ueq| ilh| ejy| wbl| trs| kvg| map| ncd| vkt| hvr| leb| rpz| ncc| nyz| rqt| rma| rqo| ofj| ahl| dyn| jld| zfb| akm| amv| zty| ryu| qdn| tsq| stp|