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| 1937 births | |
| walsh, jill paton | |
| living people | |
| english writers | |
| english novelists | |
| alumni of st annes college, oxford | |
| commanders of the order of the british empire | |
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Walsh's 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'', ''Thomas and the Tinners'', and ''The Green Book''. Her adult novels include ''Lapsing'' about Catholic university students, ''A School for Lovers'', a reworking of the plot of Mozart 's Cosi Fan Tutte , and ''The Serpentine Cave'' based on a lifeboat disaster in St Ives. '' Knowledge Of Angels '', a medieval philosophical novel, was shortlisted for the 1994 Booker Prize . She is the author of 2 Detective Stories featuring Imogen Quy; ''The Wyndham Case'', and ''A Piece of Justice''. In 1998 she won acclaim for her seamless completion of Dorothy L. Sayers unfinished novel '' Thrones, Dominations '', and she has since completed another Lord Peter Wimsey novel, '' A Presumption Of Death ''. In 1996, Walsh received the CBE for services to literature and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society Of Literature . EXTERNAL LINKS |
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