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	Jill Paton Walsh - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Jill Paton Walsh (born Gillian Bliss on 29 April 1937) is an English novelist and children's writer.
		In 1961 she married Antony Paton Walsh; they have one son, and two daughters.
		Her novels for children span all ages and include; Hengest's tale, The Dolphin Crossing, Fireweed, Goldengrove, The Emperor's Winding Sheet (Whitbread Children's Prizewinner 1974), Babylon, A Parcel of Patterns, Gaffer Samson's Luck (Smarties Prizewinner 1985), Birdy and the Ghosties, Grace, and Thomas and the Tinners.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jill_Paton_Walsh (244 words)

	Baltimore City Paper: ARTS A Desert in Bohemia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Paton Walsh touches on many of these historical issues as she explores their effect on a group of highly ordinary people.
		Paton Walsh's characters come down on alternating sides of the narrow and terrible fence between deliberate memory and forgetting.
		Unfortunately, Paton Walsh ties up all the loose strings of her narrative into a cheery little knot that is almost shamelessly pat.
	www.citypaper.com /arts/review.asp?id=1638 (1080 words)

	Bookreporter.com - A PRESUMPTION OF DEATH by Jill Paton Walsh and Dorothy L. Sayers
		That particular murder is the epicenter around which Jill Paton Walsh builds her tale.
		The challenge for Walsh is to decide whether or not she wants to "adopt" the Wimsey clan with all of their eccentricities, lordly ways, manners and humor, or if she will decide that two is enough.
		Jill Paton Walsh is a writer in her own right.
	www.bookreporter.com /reviews/0312291000.asp (677 words)

	RTE.ie Entertainment - A Desert in Bohemia by Jill Paton Walsh
		A Desert in Bohemia by Jill Paton Walsh
		Fans of Jill Paton Walsh will not be the disappointed with her latest offering, 'A Desert in Bohemia'.
		Through the intertwining lives of several families - some of whom remained in Comenia after the war, others who fled in fear for their safety - Paton Walsh expertly blends historical facts with her unique style of fiction to dramatically portray the political ideology and upheaval of the time.
	www.rte.ie /arts/2001/1108/bohemia.html (284 words)

	Jill Paton Walsh - David Higham Associates
		Jill Paton Walsh was born Gillian Bliss in London on April 29th, 1937.
		In 1961 she married Anthony Paton Walsh (now separated) and they have one son, and two daughters.
		Following the international success of THRONES, DOMINATIONS, the first collaboration between Jill Paton Walsh and Dorothy L Sayers, Jill Paton Walsh continues the story of Lord Peter Wimsey and Harriet Vane using some articles left behind by Dorothy L Sayers at her death.
	www.davidhigham.co.uk /html/Clients/Paton_Walsh (333 words)

	Read Hot: Knowledge of Angels by Jill Paton Walsh
		Paton Walsh has hit a brilliant chord with this book, but loses the plot near the middle of the text.
		Although Knowledge of Angels is one novel, Paton Walsh structures her work into two stories about characters leading oblivious parallel lives.
		Paton Walsh fails to force the reader into believing her thoughts on religion - she simply invites the reader to acknowledge religious themes that have been raised in the past and the present day.
	english.unitecnology.ac.nz /readhot/book_review.php?book_id=202&view_all=1 (3283 words)

	Powell's Books - A Desert in Bohemia by Jill Paton Walsh (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		In this beautifully crafted novel, Jill Paton Walsh creates the intersecting worlds of families and friends in a fictional small town in Eastern Europe.
		Beginning in 1945 with a young girl whose home is destroyed by war, the novel traces the effects of the Communist party on the lives of ordinary people.
		Jill Paton Walsh is the author of four highly praised adult novels: Lapsing; A School for Lovers; Knowledge of Angels, which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize; and The Serpentine Cave.
	www.powells.com /cgi-bin/biblio?inkey=16-0312262639-0 (377 words)

	'Thrones, Dominations' by Dorothy L. Sayers and Jill Paton Walsh
		Two years ago, Paton Walsh and the Sayers' estate agreed that she should finish the book.
		Paton Walsh is herself a writer of mysteries and a 1994 finalist for the Booker Prize, the British version of the National Book Award.
		Paton Walsh, is an Oxford graduate and a suc cessful mystery writer.
	www.post-gazette.com /books/reviews/19980405review74.asp (684 words)

	Books by Dorothy L. Sayers, Jill Paton Walsh (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Jill Paton Walsh uses these to reveal how World War II changed the lives of Peter Wimsey, Harriet Vane and their family.
		Jill Paton Walsh has used these clues to create this story of how World War II changed the lives of Lord and Lady Peter Wimsey and their growing family.
		Using the original lost fragment and Sayers' own notes, Jill Paton Walsh has completed this story of a society murder, set in London in 1936, and the efforts of Lord Peter Wimsey to unmask the killer.
	www.public-library.co.uk /authors/dorothy-l-sayers-jill-paton-walsh.htm (245 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Books: Knowledge of Angels (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Paton Walsh weaves the strands together using language that creates a mental medaevil book of hours full of fields of peasants bent double over their hoes and little wayside shrines.
		It is a world full of magnificent imagery and awe inspiring nature, a world where religion and duty conflicts with the depth of humanity and where arrogance leads to a dangerous experiment with human life.
		Walsh writes at her best with a simplicity that is both profound as well as poetic.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0552997803 (1031 words)

	Thrones, Dominations (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Jill Paton Walsh is the prize-winning author of twenty-two books for children and three literary novels.
		The result is an accomplished and ingenious novel, worthy of the mistress of the golden age of the crime novel at her very best.
		Heffers offers you the unique opportunity to find out how Jill Paton Walsh felt about this project and how she approached it.
	www.sayers.org.uk /press/heffers/sayers.htm (376 words)

	Jill Paton Walsh
		Like many women, Jill Paton Walsh began to write when she found herself stuck at home with a small baby.
		Jill Paton Walsh was not dismissive of fantasy, saying that she enjoys reading fantasy although she tends not to write it: "I have written fantasy; I found it many times harder than writing realistically."
		Jill Paton Walsh was of the opinion that it could be done.
	www.literaturefestival.co.uk /2004/jpw.html (1176 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Books: A Presumption of Death (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Jill Paton Walsh deserves credit for trying, but ultimately the fact that the publishers knew they had to run original Sayers dialogue to promote the book tells the potential buyer all they need to know.
		Jill Paton Walsh attempts to resolve the problem of Lord Peter's varying character by having him comment on it and the changes which marriage has brought and he is certainly a nicer, more believable person here (although I still have doubts about all this "secret" work he does !!)
		The delight of this book is not the mystery, which is reasonably straightforward, but the background detail of the war time village life and the reintroduction of the characters we already know and changes in their lives.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0340820675 (928 words)

	Amazon.com: Books: A Presumption of Death (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Walsh is a fine mystery writer in her own right, but her straightforward style of writing is greatly at odds with Sayers' lovely verbal curlicues.
		Walsh's cautious exploration of that theme is quite interesting, but does have rather a "fan fiction" feel to it.
		Walsh is a strong and graceful writer in her own voice.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/031299138X?v=glance (2519 words)

	Powell's Books - A Desert in Bohemia by Jill Paton Walsh (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		An internationally acclaimed writer whose previous novel was shortlisted for Britain's Booker Prize, Jill Paton Walsh returns with a stunning work of conceptual and ideological daring that follows nine linked characters through an era of struggle, terror, and unthinkable sacrifice.
		Beginning in 1945 when a dazed young woman covered in blood enters an abandoned, mist-shrouded castle in Eastern Europe, Walsh carries the reader across five decades, from the death of fascism to the fall of Communism.
		Brilliantly wrought fiction, A Desert in Bohemia is also an intensely human story that probes the nature of duty and moral consequence through the eyes of exiles and refugees, innocents and zealots, the tragic and the damned.
	www.powells.com /cgi-bin/biblio?inkey=1-0452282683-2 (163 words)

	Humbul full record view for -- Jill Paton Walsh home page
		The Jill Paton Walsh home page provides details of the life and works of this British author.
		Walsh has written stories and novels for both children and adults.
		Here, Walsh describes the sources of inspiration for her fable, in particular the letters of Jean Baptiste Rousseau.
	www.humbul.ac.uk /output/full2.php?id=7760 (186 words)

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		Feels the criticism Walsh has so far received has masked her faults and failed to determine what her virtues are.
		Rees feels she sets out the old-fashioned virtues in fl and white, with no gray areas, and she shows ineptitude in handling working-class characters.
		Traces Walsh's development as a writer from her first book to more recent books.
	www.unm.edu /~lhendr/author/author7.53.html (168 words)

	eBay - paton walsh, Children's Books, Fiction Books items on eBay.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
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		A Desert in Bohemia by Jill Paton Walsh (2001)
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	Amazon.ca: Books: A Presumption of Death: A New Lord Peter Wimsey/Harriet Vane Mystery [Large Print] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Walsh's starting point here is "The Wimsey Papers," a series of letters on home front conditions, ostensibly written by various members of the Wimsey family, which ran in the Spectator at the outset of WWII.
		Jill Paton Walsh has produced a new Lord Peter Wimsey and Harriet Vane book based on notes left by Sayers.
		One specific criticism: Walsh seems to have mixed up the Wimsey children Roger and Paul: in Sayers' story Talboys, set after this book, Bredon is six, Roger is four, and Paul is only briefly mentioned and strongly implied to be the youngest.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0786255617 (1161 words)

	Publisher description for Library of Congress control number 2002036879 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Publisher description for A presumption of death / Jill Paton Walsh and Dorothy L. Sayers.
		Jill Paton Walsh fulfills those hopes in A Presumption of Death.
		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.
	www.loc.gov /catdir/description/hol032/2002036879.html (339 words)

	Read Hot: Knowledge of Angels by Jill Paton Walsh
		Paton Walsh shows how the people that so many of us believe are omniscient are actually totally fallible too, and that knowledge and intellect can actually blind us, and in fact show that we know little that really matters.
		Chapter 22 is more about sharing and teaching others from the experiences that we have learnt - Palinor is helping Joffre and Dolca.
		Paton -Walsh does not force any of her views upon the reader but invites you to think about the issues that have been raised.
	english.unitecnology.ac.nz /readhot/book_review.php?book_id=202&... (252 words)

	Mystery Guide - The Wyndham Case by Jill Paton Walsh (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		She is the type of particularly female writer whose forte is the clear-eyed but sensitive deployment of behavioral vignettes, seen with what might be described as 'empathy without too much sympathy' -- a style usually sorely lacking in plot, although that defect has been remedied here in splendid fashion.
		Paton Walsh can fill the massive shoes of Dorothy L.: the intelligence is certainly evident, the background also (despite the setting of this book, she went to Oxford), and most definitely the respect for prose.
		However -- there is no trace of the effervescence which forms so large a part of the pleasure of Lord Peter: in a word, the book was simply not funny.
	www.mysteryguide.com /bkWalshCase.html (400 words)

	New Crime & Mystery Fiction Titles From Hodder Stoughton 1998 Jan-March (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Jill Paton Walsh takes the notes discovered in Sayers' agent's office, detailing how the novel begun by Dorothy L, Sayers was to develop, and completes the enthralling story of a society murder which involves both Lord Peter and his new wife Harriet when they set up home in London in 1936.
		Thrones, Dominations reads as if it were written entirely by Sayers herself and is endorsed by the Dorothy L. Sayers Society and by Dr Barbara Reynolds, Sayers’ biographer.
		Dorothy L. Sayers, creator of Lord Peter Wimsey, died in 1957, Jill Paton Walsh's novel Knowledge of Angels was shortlisted for the 1994 Booker Prize and she has also won the Whitbread and Smarties prizes for her children's books.
	www.twbooks.co.uk /crimedigests/digests98/1hodderstsp98.html (152 words)

	Sayers Gets a Ghost Writer / Novelist completes Lord Peter Wimsey mystery
		By Dorothy L. Sayers and Jill Paton Walsh St.
		Jill Paton Walsh, who has finished Sayers' uncompleted manuscript, ``Thrones and Dominations,'' is an acclaimed mystery writer in her own right (``The Serpentine Cave'' and the Booker Prize-nominated ``Knowledge of Angels'').
		Sayers.'' Now Sayers' fans are in Walsh's debt, for the transition is seamless; you cannot tell where Sayers leaves off and Walsh begins.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/1998/03/15/RV59704.DTL (737 words)

	Reminiscence by Jill Paton Walsh and John Rowe Townsend (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Reminiscence by Jill Paton Walsh and John Rowe Townsend
		Jill Paton Walsh and John Rowe Townsend live in Cambridge, England.
		Between them they have written more than fifty books for children or young people and won several major awards.
	www.hbook.com /Exhibit/remin_pwt.html (1029 words)

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	Jill Paton Walsh Online Research :: Information about Jill Paton Walsh (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Jill Paton Walsh Online Research :: Information about Jill Paton Walsh
		Her novels for children span all ages and include; Hengest's tale, The Dolphin Crossing, Fireweed, Goldengrove, The Emperor's Winding Sheet (Whitbread Book Awards Children's Prizewinner 1974), Babylon, A Parcel of Patterns, Gaffer Samson's Luck (Nestle Smarties Book Prize Prizewinner 1985), Birdy and the Ghosties, Grace, and Thomas and the Tinners.
		In 1996 she received the Order of the British Empire for services to literature, and was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
	in-northcarolina.com /search/Jill_Paton_Walsh.html (231 words)

	A Desert in Bohemia:0783894309:Paton Walsh, Jill; Walsh, Jill Paton:eCampus.com
		A Desert in Bohemia:0783894309:Paton Walsh, Jill; Walsh, Jill Paton:eCampus.com
		Edition: large prin - Author(s): Paton Walsh, Jill; Walsh, Jill Paton
		In this enthralling, beautifully crafted novel, Jill Paton Walsh creates the intersecting worlds of families and friends in a fictional small town in Eastern Europe.
	www.ecampus.com /bk_detail.asp?isbn=0783894309 (96 words)

	Semicolon » Jill Paton Walsh and Dorothy Sayers
		Semicolon » Jill Paton Walsh and Dorothy Sayers
		Today is the birthday of Jill Paton Walsh, author of several good children’s and young adult novels.
		I also found this speech given by Walsh at The Dorothy L. Sayers Memorial Lecture in May 2002.
	semicolon.reachcoop.org /index.php?p=146 (538 words)

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