New Releases by Jill Paton Walsh

Laurence und Rosamund Harwell gelten in ihren Kreisen als Paradebeispiel einer amour fou. Während Laurence als Theaterproduzent seinen Geschäften nachgeht, bändelt die kapriziöse Rosamund mit einem jungen Dramatiker an. Als sie kurze Zeit später ermordet aufgefunden wird, soll sich Lord Peter ein wenig in der feinen Gesellschaft umhören ...

Mord in der englischen Countryside - der allerletzte von Dorothy L. Sayers und Jill Paton Walsh geschriebene Fall für Lord Wimsey und Harriet Vane. England, 1940: Während Lord Peter Wimsey in geheimer Mission für den britischen Geheimdienst ins Ausland gereist ist, muss seine Frau Harriet Vane sich allein durchschlagen. Um den Kriegswirren zu entgehen, hat sich die Krimiautorin mit ihren Kindern auf den Landsitz Talboys in Hertfordshire zurückgezogen. Die Zeiten sind mager, doch die in der Umgebung stationierten Royal Air Force Soldaten und die hübschen Mädchen vom Landdienst versuchen für Unterhaltung zu sorgen. Als während einer Tanzveranstaltung der Fliegeralarm ausgelöst wird, kommt man im Keller des Gasthauses zusammen. Danach liegt die schöne, junge Wendy tot auf der Straße. Ein Opfer des Krieges ist sie jedoch ebensowenig wie der nächste Tote...

When a dispute among the Fellows of St. Severin''s College, Oxford University, reaches a stalemate, Lord Peter Wimsey discovers that as the Duke of Denver he is "the Visitor"—charged with the task of resolving the issue. It is time for Lord Peter and his detective novelist wife, Harriet, to revisit their beloved Oxford, where their long and literate courtship finally culminated in their engagement and marriage. At first, the dispute seems a simple difference of opinion about a valuable manuscript that some of the Fellows regard as nothing but an insurance liability, which should be sold to finance a speculative purchase of land. The voting is evenly balanced. The Warden would normally cast the deciding vote, but he has disappeared. And when several of the Fellows unexpectedly die as well, Lord Peter and Harriet set off on an investigation to uncover what is really going on at St. Severin''s. With this return in The Late Scholar to the Oxford of Gaudy Night, which many readers regard as their favorite of Sayers''s original series, Jill Paton Walsh at once revives the wit and brilliant plotting of the Golden Age of detective fiction.

A re-issue of a forgotten favourite, FIREWEED is an evocative and unflinching story of wartime survival for younger readers Bill is a fifteen-year-old runaway evacuee, and he''s finding that surviving on the streets of London is pretty easy, thank you very much. He''s fed by a local cafe owner, he earns some cash as a barrow-boy in Covent Garden, and sleeping in the Underground air-raid shelters is cosy - if a bit smelly. Things get more complicated for Bill with the arrival of Julie. She''s a runaway too, and although she''s a bit posh, she''s just as determined as Bill to stay free of interfering parents and ''the social''. But although it''s fun for a while to duck Jerry missiles and camp out in bombed-out houses, the reality of living through the Blitz quickly begins to set in. Winter is coming, and Bill and Julie will discover that playing at being grown-ups can be a very dangerous game.... First published in 1969, and winner of the 1970''s Book World Festival Award, FIREWEED evokes a time of tin Spitfires, powdered eggs, warm woollen mittens and reading by firelight. Perfect for readers young and old, this book is a beautifully written classic, full of adventure, heroism and British wartime courage.

Jill Paton Walsh''s classic science fiction novel The Green Book is now available from Square Fish with a brand–new cover! Pattie and her family are among the last refugees to flee a dying Earth in an old spaceship. And when the group finally lands on the distant planet which is to be their new home, it seems that the four-year journey has been a success. But as they begin to settle this shiny new world, they discover that the colony is in serious jeopardy. Nothing on this planet is edible, and they may not be able to grow food. With supplies dwindling, Pattie and her sister decide to take the one chance that might make life possible on Shine.

The miner''s work is hard-they need pasties to keep them going. When Thomas shares his pasty with a small miner, he is rewarded with a wish. But soon, more miners appear and Thomas regrets his kindness-until he faces an even bigger problem...

Sometimes, Birdy watches her father row people across the dangerous sea, but when the wrinkled old woman asks to be ferried across, Birdy jumps in too. The woman tells Birdy that she has second sight, but Birdy isn''t sure she wants this special gift. However, soon she finds that looking twice at things can bring the most unexpected results . . . With an engaging story told in short chapters, and illustrations in black and white and colour on every double-page spread, this short novel is ideal for newly confident readers.

''A jewel in the traditional English detective mode . . . Ms. Morse has arrived'' Observer According to certain Cambridge scholars, the locked library of St Agatha''s College is home to an unrivalled - and deeply uninteresting - collection of seventeenth century volumes. It also contains one dead student. At first glance it seems like a tragic accident - even if malicious rumours suggest that Philip Skellow had been 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. And before long, another student is found, drowned in an ornamental fountain . . .

In 1936, Dorothy L. Sayers abandoned the last Lord Peter Wimsey detective story. Sixty years later, a brown paper parcel containing a copy of the manuscript was discovered in her agent''s safe in London, and award-winning novelist Jill Paton Walsh was commissioned to complete it. The result of the pairing of Dorothy L. Sayers with Walsh was the international bestseller Thrones, Dominations. Now, following A Presumption of Death, set during World War II, comes a new Sayers-inspired mystery featuring Lord Peter Wimsey, revisiting his very first case. . . . It was 1921 when Lord Peter Wimsey first encountered the Attenbury Emeralds. The recovery of the gems in Lord Attenbury''s dazzling heirloom collection made headlines—and launched a shell-shocked young aristocrat on his career as a detective. Thirty years later, a happily married Lord Peter has just shared the secrets of that mystery with his wife, the detective novelist Harriet Vane. Suddenly, the new Lord Attenbury—grandson of Lord Peter''s first client—seeks his help to prove who owns the emeralds. As Harriet and Peter contemplate the changes that the war has wrought on English society—and Peter, who always cherished the liberties of a younger son, faces the unwanted prospect of ending up the Duke of Denver after all—Jill Paton Walsh brings us a masterful new chapter in the annals of one of the greatest detectives of all time.

Imogen Quy puts her sleuthing skills to work to uncover the truth behind a research fellow''s mysterious death, and an undergraduate student confronts the suspected killer through an unorthodox production of Hamlet.

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.

Booker Prize finalist Walsh returns to her series set at Cambridge Universityfeaturing amateur sleuth Imogen Quy.

An English boy, shipwrecked, hungry, and lost, finds his way into the court of Constantine where he is interpreted as a symbol of good luck and, as such, ordered to be kept always near the king.

Creep finds a dilapidated boat on the canal, climbs aboard, and journeys downstream, in the hope of leaving his troubled family life behind. Strangely enough, he travels back in time to the middle of the nineteenth century, to a world where children work long, dangerous hours in coal mines and cotton mills. In the present day, Creep''s half-brother, the only one who ever cared for Creep, is anxiously searching for him.

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.

Depuis la Première Guerre mondiale, l''Empire britannique perd de son prestige... Cette puissance fièrement attachée à ses institutions les voit disparaître les unes après les autres, emportant avec elles les vestiges du passé. La monarchie elle-même semble souffrir de ces transformations, lorsque Edouard VIII renonce au trône par amour ! La décadence s''étend à toute la société ; du moins est-ce là le sentiment de l''aristocratie, pour qui les classes sociales ne peuvent se mélanger. Aussi le mariage de Lord Peter Wimsey avec Harriet Vane, roturière, n''est-il pas sans déranger... Pourtant cette union se révèle des plus parfaites : lui s''ingénie à résoudre des énigmes réelles, tandis qu''elle en imagine dans ses romans policiers à succès. Mais cette passion commune va malheureusement prendre l''allure d''une malédiction... Déjà témoins d''un crime peu avant leur lune de miel, Les Wimsey doivent désormais enquêter sur l''assassinat d''une de leur proches... Une enquête inédite du célèbre héros de Dorothy Sayers, considérée par ses pairs comme l''égale de la grande Agatha Christie.

A grandmother tells her grandson what life was like when she was as little as he is now.

Dialogue entre une petite fille et sa grand-mère. Comparaison entre la vie aujourd''hui et celle d''autrefois.

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.

Just before the Reformation, a feral child raised by wolves and a shipwrecked atheist are discovered by local inhabitants on a remote Mediterranean island. Their simultaneous appearance becomes both an omen and a challenge to church authorities to prove that humankind is born with the knowledge of angels. At once a mystery, an adventure tale, and a medieval fable, "Knowledge of Angels" is a hauntingly poetic masterpiece.

When Connie comes to play she uses her imagination.

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 terrible gods: Horus the Hawk, Sebek the Crocodile, and Mertseger the Winged Cobra? Pepi decides to help him and, armed with his quick wits and a knowledge of secret names, the boy sets out into the wild to bring back real-life models for his father. In this magically illustrated story, young readers can solve the secret names for themselves, using a simple hieroglyphics key that brings them into the mysterious world of ancient Egypt.