Jill Paton Walsh

"We are at Shine, on the first day, " says Pattie, when, as the youngest member of the group, she is given the honor of naming the new settlement. Refugees from the dying planet Earth, they, along with other ships, have been sent into space in the hope that some of them will survive to continue the human race. But the success of Shine remains doubtful as crops fail and provisions brought from Earth dwindle. Even the excitement surrounding the hatching of the giant moth people from the "boulders" in Boulder Valley doesn't make the group forget the hopelessness of the situation. It isn't until Pattie and her sister Sarah make an important discovery that survival becomes a certainty.

The Green Book

Dorothy Leigh Sayers

Newlyweds Lord Peter Wimsey and Harriet Vane explore another mysterious turn of events during the short-lived reign of Edward VIII, in a novel left unfinished and unpublished for almost sixty years

Thrones, Dominations

A completed work based on an unfinished Dorothy L. Sayers manuscript from 1936 finds Lord Peter Wimsey revisiting his first case from 30 years earlier when the descendant of Lord Attenbury begs his help in proving the ownership of a priceless cache of emeralds. By the Whitbread Prize-winning author of A Presumption of Death.

The New Lord Peter Wimsey/Harriet Vane Mystery

The Attenbury Emeralds

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; the other, a child abandoned by her mother and suckled by wolves, who knows nothing of the precarious relationship between Church and State but whose innocence will become the subject of a dangerous experiment. But the arrival of the Inquisition on the island creates a darker, more threatening force which will transform what has been a philosophical game of chess into a matter of life and death...

Knowledge of Angels

Dorothy L. Sayers

Lord Peter and Harriet return to the scene of their literate courtship to resolve an Oxford University dispute that is complicated by the disappearance of several prominent Fellows.

Peter Wimsey and Harriet Vane Investigate

The Late Scholar

"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 her village of Eyam struggled against the plague. George Vicars dies on September 6, 1665, and by the end of October, twenty-five more townsfolk have been buried. As the deaths continue, the villagers, including Mall, begin to panic--helpless to fight off the disease. Uncertain as to how it is contracted and passed from one person to another, Mall forces herself to make a sacrifice that radically changes her life--she decides to stops seeing Thomas Torre, a man from another village, the man she hopes to marry. In June of 1966, at their minister's urging, the entire village makes a pact to protect those who live in the surrounding countryside by staying within the boundaries of Eyam. Although Mall longs to see Thomas, she remains steadfast in her resolution, until one day Thomas runs into the center of Eyam, knowing that he will not be allowed to leave, yet fearing that Mall has died. Mall and Thomas marry, but their happiness is short-lived. Finally, in October of 1666, the pestilence subsides. Mall, overwhelmed by grief and sorrow, decides to write a chronicle of all she has witnessed in Eyam, hoping that it will set her free.

A Parcel of Patterns

Two teenage runaways who refuse to be evacuated from London struggle to survive the Blitz of 1940.

Fireweed

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.

Goldengrove

Two teenagers, Cal and Dio, are put in charge of a torch when i ts old guardian dies. Dio is possessed by the idea of finding the torch's true resting place, and so they begin a journey, accompanied by some friends from their village.

Torch

Green Book Walsh J P

John and Pat, teenagers in war-tense England, are frustrated at being able to do nothing to help with the war effort. Then comes the evacuation of Dunkirk and their chance.

The Dolphin Crossing

London 1936: Lord Peter Wimsey und seine Frau Harriet beginnen gerade ihr Eheleben, als eine junge Frau aus ihrem Bekanntenkreis ermordet wird. Lord Peter muss ermitteln.

Lord Peters letzter Fall

In feiner Gesellschaft

Dorothy L Sayers

'Miraculously right: catching precisely the tone of the relationship . . . thrilling' - The Times 'A must for all Wimsey lovers . . . an entertaining read' - Northern Echo It's 1940, and while the Second World War rages on, Harriet Vane - now Lady Peter Wimsey - has taken her children to safety in the country. But the war has followed them: glamorous RAF pilots and even more glamorous land-girls scandalise the villagers, and the blackout makes the night-time lanes as sinister as the back alleys of London. Then the village's first air raid practice ends with a very real body on the ground - and it's not a war casualty, but a case of plain, old-fashioned murder. And it's not long before a second body is found . . .

A Gripping World War II Murder Mystery

A Presumption of Death

Lapsing

Wimsey Untitled

Hengest recalls the events that divided his loyalties between Jutes, Danes, and Frisians in fifth-century northern Europe and caused him to die in a foreign land hated as an oath-breaker and murderer.

Hengest's Tale

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.

The Emperor's Winding Sheet

Madge Fielding finds her life dramatically changed during the summer she rents her grandmother's house in Cornwall to an Oxford professor and a group of his students.

Unleaving

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".

Jill Paton Walsh

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