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Jill Paton Walsh

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Jill Paton Walsh, CBE, FRSL (born 29 April 1937) is an English novelist and children's writer. [1]

34 relations: A Presumption of Death, Booker Prize, Boston Globe–Horn Book Award, Cambridge, Children's literature, Children's Literature Association, Così fan tutte, Costa Book Awards, Dorothy L. Sayers, Harriet Vane, Hengist and Horsa, Jill Paton Walsh, John Rowe Townsend, Kevin Crossley-Holland, Knowledge of Angels, Lapsed Catholic, List of fictional Cambridge colleges, Lord Peter Wimsey, Medieval philosophy, Nestlé Smarties Book Prize, North Finchley, Nuffield College, Oxford, Order of the British Empire, Phoenix Award, Royal Society of Literature, St Anne's College, Oxford, St Ives, Cornwall, St Michael's Catholic Grammar School, The Attenbury Emeralds, The Late Scholar, Thrones, Dominations, University of Cambridge, University of Oxford, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.

A Presumption of Death

A Presumption of Death is a mystery novel by Jill Paton Walsh, based loosely on The Wimsey Papers by Dorothy L. Sayers.

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Booker Prize

The Man Booker Prize for Fiction (formerly known as the Booker–McConnell Prize and commonly known simply as the Booker Prize) is a literary prize awarded each year for the best original novel written in the English language and published in the UK.

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Boston Globe–Horn Book Award

The Boston Globe–Horn Book Awards are a set of American literary awards conferred by The Boston Globe and The Horn Book Magazine annually from 1967.

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Cambridge

Cambridge is a university city and the county town of Cambridgeshire, England, on the River Cam approximately north of London.

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Children's literature

Children's literature or juvenile literature includes stories, books, magazines, and poems that are enjoyed by children.

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Children's Literature Association

The Children's Literature Association (ChLA) is a non-profit association, based in the United States, of scholars, critics, professors, students, librarians, teachers, and institutions dedicated to studying children's literature.

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Così fan tutte

(Thus Do They All, or The School for Lovers), K. 588, is an Italian-language opera buffa in two acts by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart first performed on 26 January 1790 at the Burgtheater in Vienna, Austria.

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Costa Book Awards

The Costa Book Awards are a set of annual literary awards recognizing English-language books by writers based in Britain and Ireland.

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Dorothy L. Sayers

Dorothy Leigh Sayers (13 June 1893 – 17 December 1957) was a renowned English crime writer and poet.

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Harriet Vane

Harriet Deborah Vane, later Lady Peter Wimsey, is a fictional character in the works of British writer Dorothy L. Sayers (1893–1957).

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Hengist and Horsa

Hengist and Horsa are legendary brothers said to have led the Angles, Saxons and Jutes in their invasion of Britain in the 5th century.

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Jill Paton Walsh

Jill Paton Walsh, CBE, FRSL (born 29 April 1937) is an English novelist and children's writer.

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John Rowe Townsend

John Rowe Townsend (19 May 1922 – 24 March 2014) was a British children's writer and children's literature scholar.

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Kevin Crossley-Holland

Kevin John William Crossley-Holland (born 7 February 1941) is an English translator, children's author and poet.

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Knowledge of Angels

Knowledge of Angels is a medieval philosophical novel by Jill Paton Walsh which was shortlisted for the 1994 Booker Prize.

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Lapsed Catholic

A lapsed Catholic is a baptized Catholic who is non-practicing.

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List of fictional Cambridge colleges

Fictional colleges are perennially popular in modern novels, allowing the author much greater licence when describing the more intimate activities of a Cambridge college and a way of placing events that might not be permitted by actual Cambridge geography.

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Lord Peter Wimsey

Lord Peter Death Bredon Wimsey is the fictional protagonist in a series of detective novels and short stories by Dorothy L. Sayers (and their continuation by Jill Paton Walsh).

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Medieval philosophy

Medieval philosophy is the philosophy in the era now known as medieval or the Middle Ages, the period roughly extending from the fall of the Western Roman Empire in the 5th century A.D. to the Renaissance in the 16th century.

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Nestlé Smarties Book Prize

The Nestlé Children's Book Prize, and Nestlé Smarties Book Prize for a time, was a set of annual awards for British children's books that ran from 1985 to 2007.

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North Finchley

North Finchley is a suburb of London in the London Borough of Barnet, situated 7 miles (11.3 km) north-west of Charing Cross.

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Nuffield College, Oxford

Nuffield College is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in England.

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Order of the British Empire

The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is a British order of chivalry, rewarding contributions to the arts and sciences, work with charitable and welfare organisations, and public service outside the Civil service.

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Phoenix Award

The Phoenix Award annually recognizes one English-language children's book published twenty years earlier that did not then win a major literary award.

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Royal Society of Literature

The Royal Society of Literature (RSL) is a learned society founded in 1820, by King George IV, to "reward literary merit and excite literary talent".

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St Anne's College, Oxford

St Anne's College is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in England.

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St Ives, Cornwall

St Ives (Porth Ia, meaning "St Ia's cove") is a seaside town, civil parish and port in Cornwall.

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St Michael's Catholic Grammar School

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The Attenbury Emeralds

The Attenbury Emeralds is the third Lord Peter Wimsey detective novel to be written by Jill Paton Walsh.

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The Late Scholar

The Late Scholar is the fourth Lord Peter Wimsey detective novel to be written by Jill Paton Walsh.

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Thrones, Dominations

Thrones, Dominations is a Lord Peter Wimsey murder mystery novel that Dorothy L. Sayers began writing but abandoned, and which remained at her death as fragments and notes.

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University of Cambridge

The University of Cambridge (informally Cambridge University)The corporate title of the university is The Chancellor, Masters, and Scholars of the University of Cambridge.

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University of Oxford

The University of Oxford (formally The Chancellor Masters and Scholars of the University of Oxford) is a collegiate research university located in Oxford, England.

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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (27 January 1756 – 5 December 1791), baptised as Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart, was a prolific and influential composer of the classical era.

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Antony Paton Walsh, Christopher Bliss, Christopher John Emile Bliss, Gillian Bliss, Jill Payton Walsh.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jill_Paton_Walsh

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