Figgis, N P

Entry updated 26 May 2025. Tagged: Author.

(1939-2014) Irish archaeologist and author, who also wrote as by Paddy Figgis and Helen Wykham. Her fourth novel, The Fourth Mode (1989), sensitively depicts a Near Future small town and the natural life surrounding it as a nuclear Holocaust first threatens, then arrives. On the Bright Road (1999) as by Paddy Figgis is an Arthurian fantasy. [JC]

N Pamela Figgis

born Ireland: 1939

works

• The Fourth Mode (London: Penguin Books, 1989) [pb/Andrzej Klimowski]
• On the Bright Road (London: Marion Boyars, 1999) [hb/]

links

• Internet Speculative Fiction Database

previous versions of this entry

• Internet Archive