Jill Paton Walsh was born Gillian Bliss in London in 1937. Jill has won several awards, including the Whitbread Prize, The Boston Globe-Horn Book Award, The Universe Prize, and the Smarties Grand Prix. In 1970 FIREWEED won the Book World Festival Award, and her adult novel KNOWLEDGE OF ANGELS was nominated for the 1994 Booker Prize. After living for many years in Surrey, she is now settled in Cambridge. In 1996 she received the CBE for services to literature, and was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. Visit Jill at her website: www.greenbay.co.uk/jpw.html
17 Ebooks par Jill Paton Walsh
Jill Paton Walsh: Fireweed
A re-issue of a forgotten favourite, FIREWEED is an evocative and unflinching story of wartime survival for younger readers Bill is a fifteen-year-old runaway evacuee, and he’s finding that surviving …
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Jill Paton Walsh & Dorothy L. Sayers: Mord in mageren Zeiten
Mord in der englischen Countryside – der allerletzte von Dorothy L. Sayers und Jill Paton Walsh geschriebene Fall für Lord Wimsey und Harriet Vane. England, 1940: Während Lord Peter Wimsey in geheime …
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Jill Paton Walsh: Birdy and the Ghosties
Sometimes, Birdy watches her father row people across the dangerous sea, but when the wrinkled old woman asks to be ferried across, Birdy jumps in too. The woman tells Birdy that she has second sight …
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Jill Paton Walsh: Thomas and the Tinners
The miner’s work is hard-they need pasties to keep them going. When Thomas shares his pasty with a small miner, he is rewarded with a wish. But soon, more miners appear and Thomas regrets his kindnes …
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Jill Paton Walsh: Bad Quarto
‘Jill Paton Walsh has created a Miss Marple for the 21st century’ – Mirror’A jewel in the traditional English detective mode . . . Ms. Morse has arrived’ – Observer Another foolhardy Cambridge colleg …
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Jill Paton Walsh: Piece of Justice
‘Imogen Quy positively sparkles on the page as an amateur sleuth’ – Sunday Express What is the Summerfield secret?Biography is usually a safe profession. But more than one biographer has found that w …
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Jill Paton Walsh: Wyndham Case
‘A jewel in the traditional English detective mode . . . Ms. Morse has arrived’ Observer According to certain Cambridge scholars, the locked library of St Agatha’s College is home to an unrivalled – …
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Jill Paton Walsh: Late Scholar
‘Cleverly plotted . . . Walsh’s pitch-perfect re-creation of the charismatic leads is a delight’ – Publishers Weekly’Delicious’ – Booklist Lord Peter Wimsey is delighted to discover that along with a …
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Jill Paton Walsh: Debts of Dishonour
‘An entertaining read’ – Sunday Times Why did Sir Julius Farran die?Hoping to attract a generous endowment, St Agatha’s College, Cambridge, invites the fabulously wealthy Sir Julius Farran to dine. T …
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Dorothy L Sayers & Dorothy L Sayers: Presumption of Death
‘Miraculously right: catching precisely the tone of the relationship . . . thrilling’ – The Times’A must for all Wimsey lovers . . . an entertaining read’ – Northern Echo It’s 1940, and while the Sec …
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Dorothy L Sayers & Jill Paton Walsh: Thrones, Dominations
‘An engrossing, intelligent and provocative novel in the guise of a conventional mystery’ – New York Times Book Review’A superb job of seamless collaboration. Thrones, Dominations is pure pleasure.’ …
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Jill Paton Walsh: Attenbury Emeralds
‘A delight.’ – Irish Times’A pitch-perfect Golden Age mystery . . . a gem of a period puzzle’ – Financial Times Thirty years ago, Lord Peter Wimsey encountered the Attenbury emeralds. The recovery of …
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Jill Paton Walsh: Desert In Bohemia
It is 1945. Somewhere in Central Europe, in the aftermath of violence and confusion, a terrified and bloodstained young woman, Eliska, emerges from the forest to take refuge in an apparently abandone …
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Jill Paton Walsh: Serpentine Cave
When Marion’s mother is silenced, first by a stroke, and then by death, she is left confronting the chaotic detritus of a life obsessively devoted to art. she has left it too late to ask the crucial …
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Jill Paton Walsh: Knowledge Of Angels
It is, perhaps, the fifteenth century and the ordered tranquillity of a Mediterranean island is about to be shattered by the appearance of two outsiders: one, a castaway, plucked from the sea by fish …
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Jill Paton Walsh: Parcel of Patterns
A PLAGUE – A VILLAGE – A LOCKDOWN 1665, Eyam, Derbyshire. ‘Here I have set down all that I know of the Plague’It is 1665 and Mall Percival is a shepherd girl living in a Derbyshire village. She tends …
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Jill Paton Walsh & Dorothy L. Sayers: In feiner Gesellschaft
Laurence und Rosamund Harwell gelten in ihren Kreisen als Paradebeispiel einer amour fou. Während Laurence als Theaterproduzent seinen Geschäften nachgeht, bändelt die kapriziöse Rosamund mit einem j …
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