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Hamish Williams

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Born

in Cape Town, South Africa

Website

https://www.rug.nl/staff/h.g.d.williams/

Genre

Fantasy, Children's, Nonfiction

Member Since

May 2016

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Hamish Williams (PhD, UCT) is a lecturer in Literary Studies, Latin, Greek, and Creative Writing.

Hamish writes fantasy stories for readers young and old alike. His fiction is a mixture of traditional fantasy (the hero's journey, dense worldbuilding, interweaving storylines) with elements added from other genres such as beast fable, satire, detective stories, and mystery. The first two volumes of his fantasy series, Tales from Basthinia, are The Southern Tide (2021) and Under the Green Cloud (2025).

His academic writing discusses various themes in ancient and modern literature, such as utopianism, decline, hospitality, and the sublime. He is particularly interested in epic, fantasy literature, and modern rewritings of the Minoans.
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Average rating: 4.47 · 36 ratings · 24 reviews · 5 distinct works

	The Southern Tide (Tales from Basthinia #1) 4.27 avg rating — 15 ratings — published 2021 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Tolkien & the Classical World (Cormarë, #45) 4.63 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 2021	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Under the Green Cloud (Tales from Basthinia #2) by Hamish Williams (Goodreads Author), Anke Eißmann (Illustrator) 4.83 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2025	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	J.R.R. Tolkien's Utopianism and the Classics by Hamish Williams (Goodreads Author), Laura Jansen (Series Editor) 4.33 avg rating — 6 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Ancient Sea: The Utopian and Catastrophic in Classical Narratives and their Reception by Hamish Williams (Goodreads Author) (editor), Ross Clare (Editor) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Tales from Basthinia (2 books)
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Hamish Williams rated a book it was amazing The Schopenhauer Cure by Irvin D. Yalom	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
This was the first 'Yalom' I read, and I was not disappointed. The book, like the Spinoza Problem, is divided into two different narrative strands such that the chapters alternate between a biographic study of Schopenhauer's life (though not to the s ...more
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Hamish Williams made a comment in the group Goodreads Librarians Group — Under the Green Cloud topic " Please add the novel 'Under the Green Cloud' to my author page (Hamish Williams). It is currently under a different 'Hamish Williams'. This is the sec ...more "
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Hamish Williams rated a book really liked it Creepy Classics: Ghost Stories from Ancient Rome by Juliette Harrisson	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
This collection of short stories is a must-read for anyone with an interest both in the ancient world and the horror genre. Harrisson bases each of the thirteen stories (clearly, an auspicious number) on descriptions which she found in ancient Roman ...more
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