Jill Paton Walsh

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  • Bibliography:
    32 Books (2 Series)
  • First Book:
    January 1972
  • Latest Book:
    March 2021
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Full Series List in Order

An Imogen Quy Mystery

1 - The Wyndham Case (Aug-1993)
2 - A Piece of Justice (Jul-1995)
3 - Debts of Dishonor (Apr-2006)
4 - The Bad Quarto (Mar-2007)

A New Lord Peter Wimsey/Harriet Vane Mystery

1 - Thrones, Dominations (Feb-1998)
2 - A Presumption of Death (Mar-2003)
3 - The Attenbury Emeralds (Jan-2011)
4 - The Late Scholar (Jun-2014)

Book List in Order: 32 titles

  • Fireweed

    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 ...

  • The Huffler

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  • Unleaving

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    The recent heir to her grandmother's house, a young girl rents it for the summer to a professor and a group of students whose long, abstract, philosophical discussions become meaningful to her as the summer wears on....

  • Goldengrove

    . Reprint``A novel so lyrically written, it's not so much read as absorbed, like music,'' PW declared, summing up the effects of Walsh's contribution to literature in 1972. Madge and her cousin Paul exult in months at their grandmother's home, Golden...

  • Lapsing

    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...

  • Torch

  • A Chance Child

  • Grace

    When young Englishwoman Grace Darling spots a wreck offshore, she enlists the aid of her father to rescue the survivors--an act that brings her the adoration and rejection of her nation. By the author of A Chance Child. ...

  • When Grandma Came

    Grandma has seen many sights and experienced many wonders during her world travels, but she has never seen or experienced anything that can compare with her granddaughter Madeleine. By the author of Fireweed. ...



  • A Parcel of Patterns

    "A parcel of patterns brought the plague to Eyam. A parcel sent up from London to George Vicars, a journeyman tailor, who was lodging with Mrs. Cooper in a cottage by the west end of the churchyard.

    So begins Mall Percival's account of how h...

  • Matthew and the Sea Singer

    Nicholas, a spirited French boy, survives a year in a boys' primary school and recounts his numerous adventures, including sitting for a class picture, taunting a substitute, and kissing up to their teacher. All ages....

  • The Wyndham Case

    An Imogen Quy Mystery - 1

    St. Agatha's College in Cambridge, England, provides the setting for nurse Imogen Quy's investigation into a series of deaths connected to the special library called the Wyndham Case, which has a strange and possibly violent legacy....

  • Pepi and the Secret Names

    Prince Dhutmose has ordered 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 Wi...

  • Knowledge of Angels

    A fable-like tale, set in the Middle Ages, focuses on two outcasts, an atheist prince and a wolf child confined to a nunnery, who become pawns in a theological controversy. Booker Prize nominee. Reprint....

  • A Piece of Justice

    An Imogen Quy Mystery - 2

    Imogen Quy, the school nurse at St. Agatha's College, Cambridge, is intelligent, compassionate, and inquisitive - her last name rhymes with why. Imogen takes an active interest in her patients: In fact, trying to keep students out of danger has a ...

  • Connie Came to Play

    When her friend Richard refuses to share his toys, young Connie sets out to prove that her imagination is better than any toy and imagines herself a fairy castle and a locomotive that travels to distant lands....

  • The Serpentine Cave

    After her mother dies, Marian's search for her unknown father leads her to the coast of Cornwall, where she finds that her heritage and her mother's art are closely tied to St. Ives's biggest tragedy, the fishing boat disaster of 1939....

  • When I Was Little Like You

  • Thrones, Dominations

    A New Lord Peter Wimsey/Harriet Vane Mystery - 1

    Deemed "one of the greatest mystery writers of this century" by the Los Angeles Times, Dorothy L. Savers first captivated readers nearly seventy years ago with her beloved sleuths Lord Peter Wimsey and Harriet Vane in the novel Strong Poison. In Busm...



  • A Desert in Bohemia

    It is 1945. Somewhere in Central Europe, in the aftermath of violence and confusion, a terrified and bloodstained young woman, Eliska, emerges from the forest to take refuge in an apparently abandoned castle. Soon she is joined by others-the idealist...

  • A Presumption of Death

    A New Lord Peter Wimsey/Harriet Vane Mystery - 2

    While Lord Peter is abroad on a secret mission, Harriet Vane, now Lady Peter Wimsey, takes their children to safety in the country. But there's no escape from war: rumors of spies abound, glamorous RAF pilots and flirtatious land-girls scandalize the...

  • Emperor's Winding Sheet

    Famished, terrified, exhausted, a boy drops from the tree in which he has hidden just as Constantine, last Emperor of the Romans, is about to receive his crown in a monastery garden. By this accident. Piers Barber, a shipwrecked young seaman from Bri...

  • Debts of Dishonor

    An Imogen Quy Mystery - 3

    Imogen Quy--rhymes with why--is the witty, compassionate, and relentlessly inquisitive college nurse at St. Agatha's College, Cambridge University. Unfortunately, St. Agatha's has seen better days: Its financial affairs are in shambles, and the schoo...

  • The Bad Quarto

    An Imogen Quy Mystery - 4

    Imogen Quycollege nurse at St. Agathas College, Cambridge Universityis inquisitive by nature. So her interest is piqued when a research fellow plummets to his death from a beautiful old tower in mysterious circumstances, especially when an undergradu...

  • The Attenbury Emeralds

    A New Lord Peter Wimsey/Harriet Vane Mystery - 3

    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...

  • Birdy and the Ghosties

    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....

  • Thomas and the Tinners

    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......

  • The Green Book

    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 beg...

  • The Dolphin Crossing

    A gripping wartime adventure story for young readers, "The Dolphin Crossing" (first published in 1967) marked the fiction debut of Jill Paton Walsh, subsequently a celebrated author of detective stories and novels for adults.

    "The Dolphin Cross...



  • The Late Scholar

    A New Lord Peter Wimsey/Harriet Vane Mystery - 4

    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 a...

  • Wimsey Untitled

  • Gaffer Samson's Luck

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Award-Winning Books by Jill Paton Walsh

Unleaving
1976 Boston Globe-Horn Book Award -- Fiction & Poetry


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Jill Paton Walsh has published 32 books.

Jill Paton Walsh does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Wimsey Untitled, was published in March 2021.

The first book by Jill Paton Walsh, Fireweed, was published in January 1972.

Yes. Jill Paton Walsh has 2 series.
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