Best Selling Books by JILL PATON. WALSH

When Sir Julius Farran dies suddenly, followed shortly after by his son-in-law, St Agatha''s College is in real danger of bankruptcy. With Imogen Quy''s one-time lover one of the prime suspects, she decides to find out what really happened.

From the Booker Prize shortlisted author of Knowledge of Angels, this novel is of two interwoven stories worked around the theme of Mozart''s Cosi Fan Tutte, which explores love and infidelity.

Describes the simple and useful artifacts developed by prehistoric man which led to the production of a food surplus--the first cultural triumph of mankind that made possible the further development of civilization.

First published in 1939, this is the autobiography of independent India''s first Prime Minister, maybe India''s greatest ever statesman. Written in prison during the turmoil of pre-independence India, he refutes all arguments for British imperialism and lays out his own political and humanitarian thoughts.

Deemed "one of the greatest mystery writers of this century" by the Los Angeles Times, Dorothy L. Sayers first captivated readers nearly seventy years ago with her beloved sleuths Lord Peter Wimsey and Harriet Vane in the novel Stong Poison. In Busmans's Honeymoon, her last completed Wimsey/Vane novel, Lord Peter and Harriet culminated their partnership with marriage. Now Thrones, Dominations, Sayers' uncompleted last novel, satisfies the vast readership hungry to know what happened after the honeymoon. Here award-winning author Jill Paton Walsh picks up where Sayers left off, bringing Wimsey and Vane brilliantly to life in Sayers' unmistakable voice. Readers and reviewers are rejoicing at the return of this delightful sleuthing couple--as adept at solving a baffling murder mystery as they are a balancing the delicate demands of their loving union.

In Cambridge, England, three writers undertake to write a mathematician's biography and each in turn comes to an untimely end. To find out why, PI Imogen Quy, the school nurse at St. Agatha's College, travels to Wales, to discover genius, jealousy and murder.