Walsh Jill Paton, Author, Jill Paton Walsh, Author Farrar Straus Giroux $7.95 (192p) ISBN 978-0-374-41174-9
In PW 's words, ``Never has the author written with such impact as she does in this fact-fantasy, dedicated to real victims of the infant industrial revolutionlowercase per Web. . Not even Dickens portrayed abused children as Walsh does here.'' Ages
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Jill Paton Walsh, Author Farrar Straus Giroux $3.5 (0p) ISBN 978-0-374-42587-6
. Reprint""A novel so lyrically written, it's not so much read as absorbed, like music,'' PW declared, summing up the effects of Walsh's contribution to literature in 1972. Madge and her cousin Paul exult in months at their grandmother's home,...
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Jill Paton Walsh. Minotaur, $25.99 (352p) ISBN 978-1-250-03279-9
In Walsh’s cleverly plotted fourth mystery featuring the titular husband-wife sleuthing team—her second wholly original effort authorized by the Dorothy Sayers estate—Wimsey has succeeded to the title of the Duke of Denver after the death of his...
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Jill Paton Walsh, Author St. Martin's Press $20.95 (224p) ISBN 978-0-312-16999-2
Booker-finalist Walsh's (Knowledge of Angels) engaging novel of sensibility winds through the labyrinth of one woman's emotional self-discovery (and a bit of British history) on the way to its rather tidy conclusion. When Marian Easton's artist...
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Jill Paton Walsh, Author St. Martin's Press $19.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-312-13145-6
Brisk and neatly plotted, the second Imogen Quy mystery (after The Wyndham Case) relies heavily on the skills of its engaging amateur sleuth, school nurse at St. Agatha's College, Cambridge. Imogen's lodger, graduate student Frances Bullion, has...
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Jill Paton Walsh, Author Sunburst Books $6.95 (255p) ISBN 978-0-374-42792-4
PW called Paton Walsh's reconstruction of the life of Grace Darling, a heroine of Victorian England, ``gripping'' and ``timely.'' Ages 12-up. (Apr.)
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Jill Paton Walsh, Author Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $21.95 (268p) ISBN 978-0-395-68666-9
Set on a fictive Mediterranean island in medieval Europe, Walsh's dark philosophical religious fable moves through two intersecting subplots. Amara, who was abandoned as an infant and raised by wolves, is captured by shepherds. Unable to speak or...
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Jill Paton Walsh, Author Farrar Straus Giroux $16 (0p) ISBN 978-0-374-32758-3
This novel is based on the true story of Grace Darling, who lived a simple life by the sea until her participation in a daring ocean rescue made her famous throughout Victorian Britain. Grace's renown attracts myriad fan letters, an exhausting...
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Jill Paton Walsh, Author Farrar Straus Giroux $15 (0p) ISBN 978-0-374-37684-0
In a time and place that might be in the future but feasibly could have been in the past, Walsh writes of two teenagers, Cal and Dio, who are put in charge of a torch when its old guardian dies. Dio is possessed by the idea of finding the torch's...
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Jill Paton Walsh, Author St. Martin's Press $23.95 (288p) ISBN 978-0-312-26263-1
It's a signal achievement when a novel manages to be serious, important and philosophically provocative - and infused with narrative urgency, suspense, pathos and passion as well. A Booker finalist (for Knowledge of Angels), Walsh has put all of...
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Jill Paton Walsh, Author Farrar Straus Giroux $7.99 (144p) ISBN 978-0-374-45743-3
In a boxed review, PW lauded this ``beautifully written, meaningful story''--based on a 17th-century English event--about suffering, heroism and cowardice during an outbreak of the plague in a Derbyshire village. Ages 12-up. (Sept.)
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Jill Paton Walsh, Minotaur, $25.99 (352p) ISBN 978-0-312-67454-0
Walsh triumphantly follows 2003's A Presumption of Death, inspired by some letters Dorothy Sayers wrote depicting Peter Wimsey during WWII, with a wholly original interpretation of Sayers's golden age characters. In 1921, while Lord Peter was still...
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Jill Paton Walsh, Author . St. Martin's Minotaur $23.95 (245p) ISBN 978-0-312-35409-1
British author Walsh, praised for her seamless work completing two posthumous works by Dorothy Sayers (the Lord Peter Wimsey mysteries Thrones, Dominations
and A Presumption of Death
), demonstrates her mastery of the modern academic mystery with...
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Jill Paton Walsh, Author . St. Martin's Minotaur $23.95 (264p) ISBN 978-0-312-35536-4
Set at St. Agatha's, a fictional Cambridge University college, Paton Walsh's bland academic cozy will appeal most to readers enamored of the culture of British higher education and conversant in its vocabulary. Others may find that the task...
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Jill Paton Walsh, Author . Front Street $8.95 (251p) ISBN 978-1-886910-88-1
"Constantinople in the 15th century is the setting for this evocative tale of a boy's fortuitous involvement with a mighty power," wrote PW
. Ages 12-up. (Aug.)
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Jill Paton Walsh, Author, Dorothy L. Sayers, Author . St. Martin's Minotaur $24.95 (384p) ISBN 978-0-312-29100-6
In her second Lord Peter Wimsey/Harriet Vane whodunit, Booker Prize finalist Walsh (Knowledge of Angels) does a far better job of honoring Sayers than she did in their first posthumous collaboration, Thrones, Dominations
(1998). Walsh's...
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Jill Paton Walsh, read by Edward Petherbridge, AudioGo, unabridged, eight CDs, 8 hrs., $29.95 ISBN 978-1-60998-148-8
Walsh's interpretation of the classic characters of Dorothy L. Sayers labors under a somewhat lukewarm performance from narrator Edward Petherbridge. Decades after the fact, legendary sleuth Lord Peter Wimsey—along with his wife, novelist Harriet...
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Jill Paton Walsh, Author, Jill Paton Walsh, Author Minotaur Books $11.95 (224p) ISBN 978-0-312-09420-1
The author of such acclaimed children's books as Gaffer Samson's Luck introduces an exemplary amateur sleuth in her fourth adult novel. Imogen Quy, who as a small child was taken to tea with E. M. Forster, is the college nurse at St. Agatha's...
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Jill Paton Walsh, Author, Fiona French, Illustrator HarperCollins Publishers $15 (1p) ISBN 978-0-688-13428-0
Pyramids, hieroglyphics, secret names, a lowly painter and an exacting pharaoh-the elements of this elegantly illustrated story are ripe with possibilities, but they never cohere. When Pepi's father descends into Prince Dhutmose's tomb to paint the...
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Jill Paton Walsh, Author, Walsh, Author Bantam Books $14.95 (284p) ISBN 978-0-553-37475-9
In the Middle Ages, a cardinal on a remote Mediterranean island tries to determine whether the appearance of a criminal and a girl raised by wolves are acts of angels in this novel, shortlisted for the Booker Prize.
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Jill Paton Walsh, Author, Stephen Lambert, Illustrator Viking Children's Books $13.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-670-87608-2
In this quiet tale, a seaside stroll prompts young Rosie to point out various sights, which trigger a series of recollections by her grandmother. When Rosie sees a diesel train speeding through the valley (""Look Gran. Look at the train, Gran""),...
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Dorothy L. Sayers, Author, Jill Paton Walsh, Author, Jill Paton Walsh, Joint Author St. Martin's Press $23.95 (240p) ISBN 978-0-312-18196-3
After Sayers married off Lord Peter Wimsey and Harriet Vane in Busman's Honeymoon (1937), she devoted herself to translating Dante's Divine Comedy. A few short stories later appeared, noting the arrival of three Wimsey sons, and there was a rumor...
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Stephen Lambert, Author, Jill Paton Walsh, Author, Stephen Lambert, Illustrator Viking Children's Books $12.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-670-86210-8
Adult abstraction and preschooler literalism duke it out in this cute but muddled picture book. When Robert refuses to share his toy train with Connie, she says, ``All right... You play with that one. I'll play with this one... '' The next page...
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