Background
Walsh, Jill Paton was born on April 29, 1937 in London, England. Daughter of John Llewelyn and Patricia (Dubern) Buss.
( It is 1945. Somewhere in Central Europe, in the afterma...)
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 abandoned castle. Soon she is joined by others-the idealistic Jiri, the sinister Slavomir and his partisans, and Count Michael Blansky, who is the castle's ancestral owner. But the war has changed things forever. In a storm of ideological change, the existing order and the aristocratic heritage of ten generations are brushed aside by the arrival of Communism, and Count Michael must join the flood of refugees if he is to survive. He leaves behind a legacy that will entangle those involved for the next forty years in more ways than they can possibly imagine. As divided post-war Europe unravels around them, communities are destroyed, families uprooted, and the ties of trust, friendship, and duty that bind them together are broken down. Told through the eyes of nine characters who live through the forty years between the end of the war and the fall of Communism, A Desert in Bohemia is a complex and enthralling testament to the power-and powerlessness-of the individual in challenging times. By the time the Berlin Wall comes down, their lives will have been battered, broken, and made whole once more.
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( The campus of St. Agatha's College, Cambridge Universit...)
The campus of St. Agatha's College, Cambridge University, is steeped in history. One particular building, however, has a history that most would rather forget---a tower that has drawn several students to their death. Much discouraged by the authorities, it is a college tradition for students to try their luck jumping the gap between a window and a pediment---nicknamed Harding's Folly---and the gap has recently claimed another victim, a glamorous and controversial Shakespearean scholar. Imogen Quy (rhymes with "why"), college nurse and amateur sleuth, is surprised that such a brilliant man would take such a foolish risk. But tragic accidents do happen---or was it an accident? One undergraduate is so convinced of foul play that he takes it upon himself to confront the suspected murderer by mounting a production of the "bad quarto"---a shortened, pirated script---of Shakespeare's Hamlet. Wise, compassionate Imogen, who has been described as "sharp as needles and soft as butter," has just the right mixture of involvement and detachment to sort out what really happened in the most literate and compelling academic mystery since Dorothy L. Sayers's Gaudy Night.Â
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( Sixty years after Dorothy L. Sayers began her unfinishe...)
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 tell where Sayers leaves off and Walsh begins." "Will Paton Walsh do it again?" wondered Ruth Rendell in London's Sunday Times. "We must hope so." Jill Paton Walsh fulfills those hopes in A Presumption of Death. Although Sayers never began another Wimsey novel, she did leave clues. Drawing on "The Wimsey Papers," in which Sayers showed various members of the family coping with wartime conditions, Walsh has devised an irresistible story set in 1940, at the start of the Blitz in London. Lord Peter is abroad on secret business for the Foreign Office, while Harriet Vane, now Lady Peter Wimsey, has taken their children to safety in the country. But war has followed them there---glamorous RAF pilots and even more glamorous land-girls scandalize the villagers, and the blackout makes the nighttime lanes as sinister as the back alleys of London. Daily life reminds them of the war so constantly that, when the village's first air-raid practice ends with a real body on the ground, it's almost a shock to hear the doctor declare that it was not enemy action, but plain, old-fashioned murder. Or was it? At the request of the overstretched local police, Harriet reluctantly agrees to investigate. The mystery that unfolds is every bit as literate, ingenious, and compelling as the best of original Lord Peter Wimsey novels.
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(A fable-like tale, set in the Middle Ages, focuses on two...)
A fable-like tale, set in the Middle Ages, focuses on two outcasts, an atheist prince and a wolf child confined to a nunnery, who become pawns in a theological controversy. Booker Prize nominee. Reprint.
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(After her artist mother dies, a daughter's search for her...)
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. There she discovers her identity and her mother's art are irrevocably tied to a 1939 lifeboat disaster. This powerful story by the renowned children's author Jill Paton Walsh is a true story within an imagined one.
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( Imogen Quy, the school nurse at St. Agatha's College, C...)
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 her friend and boarder, Fran Bullion. Fran innocently undertakes to complete the biography of a mathematician, a seemingly simple task that was begun by three other biographers but never finished. Seemingly simple, that is, until curiosity drives Imogen to discover that the first three scholars met with untimely ends. What is it about the obscure genius of Gideon Summerfield - now dead himself - that could drive someone to murder? A dazzling new academic mystery, starring school nurse/sleuth Imogen Quy. Imogen tackles the seemingly simple question of why a mathematician's biography was started by three writers but never finished. Her investigation reveals that the first three scholars met with untimely ends--and now another is missing.
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(When Birdy rescues Matthew from his orphan master, she is...)
When Birdy rescues Matthew from his orphan master, she is unaware that the raggedy little boy is blessed with a voice of priceless beauty, one that blossoms under the care of the local parson.
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(A re-issue of a forgotten favourite, FIREWEED is an evoca...)
A re-issue of a forgotten favourite, FIREWEED is an evocative and unflinching story of wartime survival for younger readersBill 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. Things get more complicated for Bill with the arrival of Julie. She's a runaway too, and although she's a bit posh, she's just as determined as Bill to stay free of interfering parents and 'the social'. But although it's fun for a while to duck Jerry missiles and camp out in bombed-out houses, the reality of living through the Blitz quickly begins to set in. Winter is coming, and Bill and Julie will discover that playing at being grown-ups can be a very dangerous game...First published in 1969, and winner of the 1970's Book World Festival Award, FIREWEED evokes a time of tin Spitfires, powdered eggs, warm woollen mittens and reading by firelight. Perfect for readers young and old, this book is a beautifully written classic, full of adventure, heroism and British wartime courage.
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(Robert won't share his train or any of his toys with Conn...)
Robert won't share his train or any of his toys with Connie when she comes to play - until Connie shares a story with him and then they both play with all the toys together.
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( Imogen Quy--rhymes with why--is the witty, compassiona...)
Imogen Quy--rhymes with why--is the witty, compassionate, and relentlessly inquisitive college nurse at St. Agatha's College, Cambridge University. Unfortunately, St. Agatha's has seen better days: Its financial affairs are in shambles, and the school is teetering on the verge of bankruptcy. That is, until billionaire financier and St. Agatha's College alum Sir Julius Farran decides to pay his alma mater a visit. Things are looking up for St. Agatha's….but when Sir Julius suddenly dies in questionable circumstances, St. Agatha's is in danger of closing forever. A nurse is a natural receiver of confidences, and Imogen soon learns that Sir Julius had far more enemies than friends. Her curiosity is initially piqued, but soon turns to alarm when Julius's equally unpleasant son-in-law is found murdered. The case takes on particular urgency because Imogen's former flame, Andrew Duncombe, had been working as Sir Julius's right-hand man. Imogen must work what out really happened before Andrew is implicated in the murders--or becomes the next victim. In her first case in more than a decade, Imogen Quy calls upon her clear thinking and insight into human nature to seek not only truth but justice. Readers will delight in the return of this "exemplary amateur sleuth" (Publishers Weekly) from a brilliant novelist in the best tradition of Dorothy L. Sayers and Josephine Tey.
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(For young Ra to make all the tools needed by his Stone Ag...)
For young Ra to make all the tools needed by his Stone Age tribe is a new idea for all of them, and provides Ra with a skill that saves his life when he is abandoned by his tribe for forgetting how to hunt.
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(Grandma is a world traveler with wonderful tales to tell,...)
Grandma is a world traveler with wonderful tales to tell, but none of the sights she's seen compare to the wonder of her bouncy, growing, "heaven-and-earthly" granddaughter. Walsh's lyrical love song from a grandparent to a child is full of reassuring warmth, and Williams' vibrant pastel drawings will capture older and younger hearts alike. Full color.
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Walsh, Jill Paton was born on April 29, 1937 in London, England. Daughter of John Llewelyn and Patricia (Dubern) Buss.
(It is, perhaps, the fifteenth century and the ordered tra...)
(A re-issue of a forgotten favourite, FIREWEED is an evoca...)
( A gripping wartime adventure story for young readers, T...)
(For young Ra to make all the tools needed by his Stone Ag...)
(When Birdy rescues Matthew from his orphan master, she is...)
(This sequel to the much-acclaimed Goldengrove centers on ...)
(Robert won't share his train or any of his toys with Conn...)
(Grandma is a world traveler with wonderful tales to tell,...)
(A fable-like tale, set in the Middle Ages, focuses on two...)
(Expecting the usual carefree and happy summer with her co...)
( Creep accidentally travels back in time to the British ...)
(After her artist mother dies, a daughter's search for her...)
(Fascinated by the canal boats going past her house, a you...)
(Madeleine's grandma has roamed the wide world over--from ...)
( Imogen Quy--rhymes with why--is the witty, compassiona...)
(The author of The Wyndham Case returns with another myste...)
(Two teen-age runaways who refuse to be evacuated from Lon...)
(Two teen-age runaways who refuse to be evacuated from Lon...)
(A young Scottish girl has little use for her gift of seco...)
(A grandmother tells her grandson what life was like when ...)
(The miners' work is hard, so they need their tasty luncht...)
(For Rose, her first trip to the seaside brings excitement...)
(Goldengrove Paperback Jan 01, 1973 Walsh, Jill Paton)
( Imogen Quy, the school nurse at St. Agatha's College, C...)
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( Sixty years after Dorothy L. Sayers began her unfinishe...)
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(Book by Paton Walsh, Jill)
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( The campus of St. Agatha's College, Cambridge Universit...)
( It is 1945. Somewhere in Central Europe, in the afterma...)
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Fellow Royal Society of Literature (Commander of the Order of the British Empire award 1996).
Married Antony Edmund Paton Walsh, August 5, 1961. Children: Edmund, Margaret, Clare.