Best Selling Books by Jill Paton Walsh

The locked library of St Agatha''s College, Cambridge houses an unrivalled, and according to certain scholars, deeply uninteresting collection of seventeenth century volumes. It also contains one dead student. Tragic and accidental, of course, even if malicious gossip hints that Philip Skellow had been engaged in stealing books rather than acquiring knowledge when he''d slipped, banged his head, and bled to death overnight. Only Imogen Quy, the college nurse, has her doubts - until another student is found, drowned in an ornamental fountain...

Eight stories of Anglo-Saxon times when raiders came from the North, and Paganism and Christianity struggled for recognition.

Prince Dhutmose has commanded a splendid tomb to be built for his final journey to the Land of the Dead. Pepi''s father is to decorate it, but how can he paint the unimaginable - the Lions of the Horizon, the terrible gods Horus the Hawk and Sebek the crocodile, and Mertseger the deadly Winged Cobra? Pepi decides to find real-life models for his father, using his knowledge of secret names. In this enthralling, magically illustrated story, young readers can solve the secret names for themselves, using a simple hieroglyphics key to enter the mysterious world of ancient Egypt.

Pat and his friend John both know the risks they are running in taking a boat across the Channel in the spring of 1940. But they also know they have to do something to help the British soldiers stranded in Dunkirk.

When Connie comes to play she uses her imagination.

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.

Adam finds an implement like a Stone Age axe which he carries everywhere but which appears to give him bad dreams. He gives his treasure to a terrified, caged gorilla, feeling it is not r̀ight to lock people up.'' The gorilla escapes but Adam gets back his axe.

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.

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.

Born in England, Dulcie is sad when she is unable to share the memories her friends David and Leslie have of Jamaica, their first home.

Colour illus. A collection of stories for young readers.

Another foolhardy Cambridge college-climber has died attempting Harding''s Folly. This time it''s John Talentire, one of the brightest young dons at St Agatha''s, and the verdict is accident, compounded by idiocy. But Imogen Quy - her name rhymes with ''why'' - can''t help wondering how such a clever young man died so stupidly. And when a wildly eccentric production of Hamlet is interrupted by a murder accusation, Imogen has to look into it, uncovering more crimes than she expected...

Although Grandma has seen many wonderful sights around the world, none compare to the wonder of her bouncy, growing, "heaven-and-earthly" granddaughter Madeleine.

Eight stories of Anglo-Saxon times during the period of six hundred years between the time the Romans left England and the Norman Conquest in 1066.