1st Puffin 1971 edition paperback vg book In stock shipped from our UK warehouse

Hengest's Tale (Puffin Books)

JILL PATON WALSH

Children's Books

Puffin Books

Goldengrove

Puffin Penguin Books

Gaffer Samson's Luck (Puffin Books)

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.

Connie Came to Play (Picture Puffin)

One of a series offering classic and contemporary writing for schools to suit a range of ages and tastes.

Fireweed (M Books)

Education & Teaching

Schools & Teaching

Nelson Thornes Ltd

The author of The Wyndham Case returns with another mystery featuring Imogene Quy--school nurse at St. Agatha's College, Cambridge--about an unfinished biography, three scholars who died mysteriously, another who is missing, and a peculiar quilt pattern.

A Piece of Justice: An Imogen Quy Mystery

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Mystery

St Martins Pr

Newlyweds Lord Peter Winsey and Harriet Vane explore another mysterious turn of events during the short-lived reign of Edward VIII, in this novel, left unfinished and unpublished for almost sixty years.

Thrones, Dominations: A Lord Peter Wimsey / Harriet Vane Mystery

Literature & Fiction

Dorothy-L-Sayers

Contemporary

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.

A Desert in Bohemia

British & Irish

St.Martin's Press

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.

A Presumption of Death: A New Lord Peter Wimsey/Harriet Vane Mystery

Minotaur Books

A sensitive young girl and her cousin who spend their summer vacation at their grandmother's beach house learn the importance of caring from a blind professor

Macmillan

See the best price to sell, buy, or rent books by JILL PATON WALSH. BookScouter helps to compare book prices from 25+ online bookstores and 30+ buyback vendors with a single search.

Books by JILL PATON WALSH

See the best price to sell, buy, or rent books by JILL PATON WALSH. BookScouter helps to compare book prices from 25+ online bookstores and 30+ buyback vendors with a single search.

Hengest's Tale (Puffin Books)

Goldengrove

Gaffer Samson's Luck (Puffin Books)

Connie Came to Play (Picture Puffin)

Fireweed (M Books)

A Piece of Justice: An Imogen Quy Mystery

Thrones, Dominations: A Lord Peter Wimsey / Harriet Vane Mystery

A Desert in Bohemia

A Presumption of Death: A New Lord Peter Wimsey/Harriet Vane Mystery

Goldengrove