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A Desert in Bohemia by Jill Paton Walsh
Category: Fiction
It is 1945. As the German Army retreats and the tide of war sweeps back over Eastern Europe, the lives of the inhabitants are changed forever. For with that political change comes an ideological one which swamps the existing order. In one castle near the Czechoslovakian border, the aristocratic herita ...Show more
A Parcel of Patterns by Jill Paton Walsh
Category: Fiction
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 her flock, spends time with her best friend and teaches her young suitor to read. But one day a parce ...Show more
A Piece of Justice by Jill Paton Walsh
Category: Fiction | Series: Imogen Quy Mysteries Ser.
Imogen Quy, the school nurse at St. Agatha's College, Cambridge, is intelligent, compassionate, and inquisitive - her last name rhymes with why. Imogen takes an active interest in her patients: In fact, trying to keep students out of danger has a way of getting Imogen into it. This time that student is ...Show more
A Presumption of Death by Dorothy L. Sayers; Jill Paton Walsh
Category: Crime and Thrillers
Sixty years after Dorothy L. Sayers began her unfinished Lord Peter Wimsey novel, "Thrones Dominations," Booker Prize finalist Jill Paton Walsh took on the challenge of completing the manuscript---with extraordinary success. "The transition is seamless," said the "San Francisco Chronicle"; "you cannot t ...Show more
Debts of Dishonour by Jill Paton Walsh
Category: Fiction | Series: An\Imogen Quy Mystery Ser.
Hoping to attract a generous endowment, St Agatha
Fireweed by Jill Paton Walsh
Category: Children's
Bill is a fifteen-year-old runaway evacuee, and he's finding that surviving on the streets of London is pretty easy, thank you very much. He's fed by a local cafe owner, he earns some cash as a barrow-boy in Covent Garden, and sleeping in the Underground air-raid shelters is cosy - if a bit smelly. Thin ...Show more
Knowledge of Angels by Jill Paton Walsh
Category: Fiction
The appearance of two outsiders on a Mediterranean island - one a castaway and atheist, the other a child suckled by wolves and knowing nothing of God - find themselves the subjects of a bizarre experiment.