Books by jill paton walsh

Pattie and her family are among the last refugees to flee a dying Earth in an old spaceship. And when the group finally lands on the distant planet ... More

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Drawing on "The Wimsey Papers, " in which Sayers showed the Wimsey's coping with wartime conditions, Walsh has devised an irresistible story set in ... More

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Mall Percival tells how the plague came to her Derbyshire village of Eyam in the year 1665, how the villagers determined to isolate themselves to ... More

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It was 1921 when Lord Peter Wimsey first encountered the Attenbury Emeralds. The recovery of the gems in Lord Attenbury's dazzling heirloom ... More

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In this winner of the Whitbread Children's Book Award, Walsh brings a meticulous eye for detail and storyteller's skill to this tale of the fall of ... More

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A "New York Times" bestselling author returns to her popular series with this latest installment. Imogen Quy, an inquisitive amateur sleuth, takes it ... More

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The locked library of St Agatha's College, Cambridge houses an unrivalled, and according to certain scholars, deeply uninteresting collection of ... More

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Booker Prize finalist Walsh returns to her series set at Cambridge Universityfeaturing amateur sleuth Imogen Quy.

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Madge Fielding finds her life dramatically changed during the summer she rents her grandmother's house in Cornwall to an Oxford professor and a group ... More

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It was 1921 when Lord Peter Wimsey first encountered the Attenbury Emeralds. The recovery of the gems in Lord Attenbury's dazzling heirloom ... More

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By 1940 the war had brought many things to young Pat Riley and John Ashton--bombings, worry, and fear. But it had also brought them together as ... More

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It is, perhaps, the fifteenth century and the ordered tranquillity of a Mediterranean island is about to be shattered by the appearance of two ... More

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Biography is usually a safe profession. Even rather sedate. But more than one biographer has found that writing about the late great mathematician ... More

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In this beautifully crafted novel, Jill Paton Walsh creates the intersecting worlds of families and friends in a fictional small town in Eastern ... More

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After her artist mother dies, a daughter's search for her own past and the identity of her father takes her to a remote Cornwall fishing village. ... More

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Another foolhardy Cambridge college-climber has died attempting Harding's Folly. This time it's John Talentire, one of the brightest young dons at St ... More

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Two teen-age runaways who refuse to be evacuated from London struggle to survive the blitz of 1940.

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It was 1921 when Lord Peter Wimsey first encountered the Attenbury emeralds. The recovery of the magnificent gem in Lord Attenbury's most dazzling ... More

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After helping her father rescue the survivors of a shipwreck on the coast of England in 1838, Grace Darling finds her quiet life crumbling around her ... More

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Hoping to attract a generous endowment, St Agatha's College, Cambridge, invites fabulously wealthy Sir Julius Farran to dine. The evening is a ... More

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When the villagers of Eyam isolate themselves to prevent the Plague spreading, Mall is separated from her beloved Thomas. This book won the Universe ... More

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Compelled to search for his half brother Creep who some people insist is nonexistent, Christopher locates Parliamentary Papers containing Nathaniel ... More

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