New Releases by JILL PATON. WALSH

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.

At Oxford during the 1950s, Tessa, an undergraduate enters into a strange menage a trois with the husband she admires and the young priest she loves a situation that precipitates a crisis of faith for the Roman Catholic Tessa

Cal and Dio set out, along with a few of their friends, on an extraordinary journey to discover the torch''s true meaning and to find its home.

Expecting the usual carefree and happy summer with her cousin Paul at their grandmother''s seaside home, Madge finds this summer to be different from all the others.

A Stone Age boy loses an arrowhead that is found by a young girl several centuries later, while the jug she has lost is found centuries later by a young boy, whose own lost sixpence is found by a little girl in the present day.

When the villagers of Eyam isolate themselves to prevent the Plague spreading, Mall is separated from her beloved Thomas. This book won the Universe Literary Prize and was a runner-up for the Whitbread Literary Award.

Compelled to search for his half-brother Creep who some people insist is nonexistent, Christopher locates Parliamentary Papers containing Nathaniel Creep's personal narrative of working conditions during the Industrial Revolution 100 years earlier.

Three novellas depict the courageous actions of children dedicated to the cause of the Greek General Themistokles during the Persian Wars

SUMMARY : Fascinated by the canal boats going past her house, a young girl inadvertently finds herself traveling with them as a member of the crew.

The central character of this novel is Themistokles, an Athenian statesman of the fifth century B.C. who fought for democracy and endeavoured to unite the Greeks in resistance to the might of Persia. Although sure that his own policies were right, he was anxious for the good opinion of his friend and political opponent, Aristeides "the Just".