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Jill Paton Walsh

    29. apríl 1937 – 18. október 2020

    Jill Paton Walsh tvorí prenikavé a provokatívne príbehy, ktoré skúmajú hĺbku ľudskej skúsenosti. Jej štýl je súčasne poetický aj priamočiary, čo umožňuje čitateľom ponoriť sa do jej komplexných postáv a tém. Svojím rozprávaním sa zameriava na témy ako identita, pamäť a morálna zložitosť, čím vytvára diela, ktoré zostávajú v mysli dlho po dočítaní. Jej jedinečný hlas a literárna zdatnosť z nej robia pozoruhodnú autorku.

    Jill Paton Walsh
    A Desert in Bohemia
    A Parcel of Patterns
    Fireweed
    Knowledge Of Angels
    The Dolphin Crossing
    Thrones, Dominations
    • This is the unfinished crime novel started by Dorothy L. Sayers. Booker-Prize-shortlisted novelist Jill Paton Walsh completes the story. Set in London in 1936, it tells of a society murder and how Lord Peter Wimsey unmasks the killer.

      Thrones, Dominations
    • The Dolphin Crossing

      • 180 stránok
      • 7 hodin čítania

      John, a boarding school boy, and Pat, an evacuee from a London slum. Together John and Pat make a daring plan to sail a boat across the English Channel to Dunkirk. Foolhardy as their plan may seem, the boys are sure they must do something to help the stranded British soldiers.

      The Dolphin Crossing
    • Knowledge Of Angels

      • 283 stránok
      • 10 hodin čítania
      4,1(1396)Ohodnotiť

      It is, perhaps, the fifteenth century and the ordered tranquillity of a Mediterranean island is about to be shattered by the appearance of two outsiders: one, a castaway, plucked from the sea by fishermen, whose beliefs represent a challenge to the established order;

      Knowledge Of Angels
    • A re-issue of a forgotten favourite, FIREWEED is an evocative and unflinching story of wartime survival for younger readersBill 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.

      Fireweed
    • 'Here I have set down all that I know of the Plague'It's 1665 and Mall Percival is a shepherd girl living in a Derbyshire village.

      A Parcel of Patterns
    • It is 1945. As the German Army retreats and the tide of war sweeps back over Eastern Europe, the lives of the inhabitants are changed forever.

      A Desert in Bohemia
    • Peter Wimsey is pleased to discover that along with a Dukedom he has inherited the duties of 'visitor' at an Oxford college. When the fellows appeal to him to resolve a dispute, he and Harriet set off happily to spend some time in Oxford. But the dispute turns out to be embittered. The voting is evenly balanced between two passionate parties - evenly balanced, that is, until several of the fellows unexpectedly die. The Warden has a casting vote, but the Warden has disappeared. And the causes of death of the deceased fellows bear an uncanny resemblance to the murder methods in Peter's past cases - methods that Harriet has used in her published novels.

      The Late Scholar
    • Debts of Dishonour

      • 272 stránok
      • 10 hodin čítania
      3,7(27)Ohodnotiť

      Hoping to attract a generous endowment, St Agatha's College, Cambridge, invites fabulously wealthy Sir Julius Farran to dine. The evening is a disaster for everyone but Imogen Quy: Farran asks her to come and work for him. She declines, but when Farran dies, suddenly and shockingly, she has to look into it. His death left a large hole in his company accounts that could mean financial ruin for St Agatha's. To save her college, Imogen starts to cast her cool eye over the financier's heirs, employees and enemies. What is right about the death of Sir Julius? What is wrong about it? And why did it happen? After all, her name rhymes with ''why''.

      Debts of Dishonour
    • A Piece of Justice

      • 240 stránok
      • 9 hodin čítania
      3,5(16)Ohodnotiť

      Booker shortlisted author Jill Paton Walsh returns with the second Imogen Quy mystery

      A Piece of Justice
    • The Bad Quarto

      • 269 stránok
      • 10 hodin čítania
      3,5(18)Ohodnotiť

      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...

      The Bad Quarto