Jill Paton Walsh

Broschiertes Buch

A Parcel of Patterns

Beschreibung

'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.

Autor

Jill Paton Walsh (1937-2020) was an award-winning author of many books for children, young adults, and adults including The Green Book, A Parcel of Patterns, the Booker Prize shortlisted Knowledge of Angels, and the Whitbread Prize winner The Emperor's Winding Sheet. She completed Dorothy L. Sayers's unfinished Lord Peter Wimsey and Harriet Vane mystery manuscript, the international bestseller Thrones, Dominations, and continued Sayers's series with A Presumption of Death, The Attenbury Emeralds, and The Late Scholar. She held numerous posts connected to literature, including an Arts Council Creative Writing Fellowship, acting as a Whitbread Prize judge, and serving on the committee of the Society of Authors. She contributed articles and reviews to many journals. In 1996 Walsh was awarded a CBE for services to literature and was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Vintage Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. März 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 195mm x 127mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 170g
• ISBN-13: 9781784877385
• ISBN-10: 1784877387
• Artikelnr.: 62916999