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Gillian Honorine Mary Herbert, Baroness Hemingford, (née Bliss; 29 April 1937 – 18 October 2020), known professionally as Jill Paton Walsh, was an English novelist and children's writer. She may be known best for her Booker Prize-nominated novel Knowledge of Angels and for the Peter Wimsey–Harriet Vane mysteries that continued the work of Dorothy L. Sayers. Personal life Gillian Honorine Mary Bliss was born on 29 April 1937 to John Bliss, an engineer for the BBC who at his death had 363 patents to his name, and Patricia Paula DuBern, a homemaker. She went with her mother and siblings to live with grandparents in St Ives, Cornwall, when she was three years old because of the World War II bombings. In 1944, after the grandmother had died, Bliss returned to London to live with her mother and her younger siblings, who had returned to London earlier. Bliss was educated at St Michael's Convent, North Finchley, London. She attended St Anne's College, Oxford, graduating in 1959, and lived in Cambridge. After graduating, Bliss taught English at Enfield County Grammar School for Girls, but left her position in 1962, as she was expecting her first child. In the previous year she had married Antony Edmund Paton Walsh; they settled in Richmond, south-west London, and had one son and two daughters. In the early 1970s, Jill met John Rowe Townsend and they began an affair. She left her first husband only in 1986, when their youngest daughter turned 18. Antony did not want a divorce because of his Roman Catholic faith. Jill and Townsend were married only in 2004, after Antony's death on 30 December 2003. Townsend died in 2014. In February 2020, she met Nicholas Herbert, 3rd Baron Hemingford (1934−2022), whom she married in September of that year. She died three weeks later, in October, of kidney and heart failure in hospital at Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire. Honours In 1996, Paton Walsh received the CBE for services to literature and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. In 1998, she won the Phoenix Award from the Children's Literature Association, recognising A Chance Child as the best children's book published twenty years earlier that did not win a major award. On writing for children In an essay on realism in children's literature, Paton Walsh stated that realism (like fantasy) is also metaphorical, and that she would like the relationship between the reader and her characters Bill and Julie in Fireweed to be as metaphorical as that between "dragons and the reader's greed or courage". Works Knowledge of Angels (1993), a medieval philosophical novel, was shortlisted for the 1994 Booker Prize. Other adult novels include: Farewell, Great King (1972) Lapsing (1986), about Catholic university students A School for Lovers (1989), reworking of the plot of Mozart's Cosi fan tutte The Serpentine Cave (1997), based on a lifeboat disaster in St Ives A Desert in Bohemia (2000), which follows a group of characters in England and in an imaginary Eastern European country through the years between World War II and 1989 Imogen Quy Paton Walsh wrote four detective stories that featured part-time college nurse Imogen Quy, and were set in the fictional St Agatha's College, University of Cambridge: The Wyndham Case (1993) A Piece of Justice (1995) Debts of Dishonour (2006) The Bad Quarto (2007) Lord Peter Wimsey In 1998, she completed Dorothy L. Sayers's unfinished Lord Peter Wimsey–Harriet Vane novel, Thrones, Dominations. In 2002, she followed this up with another Lord Peter novel, A Presumption of Death. In 2010, she published a third, The Attenbury Emeralds. Her last addition to the series, The Late Scholar, was published 5 December 2013 in the UK, and 14 January 2014 in North America. Children's books Hengest's Tale (St Martin's Press, 1966), fiction, illustrated by Janet Margrie The Dolphin Crossing (1967), adapted for the stage by Ed Viney (2012) Word Hoard: Anglo-Saxon stories (1969?), by Paton Walsh and Kevin Crossley-Holland Fireweed (1969) Goldengrove (1972) The Dawnstone (1973), published by Hamish Hamilton Toolmaker (1973), picture book illus. Jeroo Roy The Emperor's Winding Sheet —Whitbread Prize for children's books, 1974 The Butty Boy (1975), illus. Juliette Palmer The Huffler (1975), illus. Palmer The Island Sunrise: prehistoric Britain (1975); US subtitle, —nonfiction Unleaving (1976), sequel to Goldengrove —Boston Globe–Horn Book Award for fiction, 1976 Crossing to Salamis (1977), picture book illus. David Smee The Walls of Athens (1977), picture book illus. Smee A Chance Child (1978) Children of the Fox (1978), illus. Robin Eaton The Green Book (1981), illus. Lloyd Bloom Babylon (1982) A Parcel of Patterns (1983) Gaffer Samson's Luck (1984) —Smarties Prize, 1985 Birdy and the Ghosties (1989) Grace (1991) When Grandma Came (1992), picture book illus. by Sophy Williams Thomas and the Tinners (1995) — 1995 Carnegie Medal longlist Bibliography Garrett, Martin (2004). Cambridge: A Cultural and Literary History. Oxford: Signal Books. Archived from the original on 7 April 2011. With foreword by Jill Paton Walsh. References External links Official website with biography and complete bibliography to 2001 Jill Paton Walsh at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database Paton Walsh, Jill at Library of Congress, with 54 library catalogue records. Discover the Jill Paton Walsh popular books. Find the top 100 most popular Jill Paton Walsh books.
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Silenced Girls
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Meditations
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Salvation
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Think and Grow Rich
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A Christmas Carol
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Pretty Little Lies
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Holy Bible
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Little Women
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Teased by Fire
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The Honeymoon Homicide
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Nothing to Hide
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The Three Little Pigs
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His Own Heaven
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The Cupcake Cottage
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Once Upon A One-Night Stand
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Good Guy
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The Target
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Dracula
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Hot Off the Press
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The Odyssey
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The Count of Monte Cristo
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Death at Hazel House
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Pride and Prejudice
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Masters of Restraint
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Teach Me
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A Green Kind of Witch
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Always Yours
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How to Choose a Guy in 10 Days
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The Great Gatsby
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The Holy Bible - King James Version
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Saltwater Cove
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Inception of Gold
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Whiskey Girl
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His Girl Next Door
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Just Me
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Noxious
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Rogue Alpha
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School of Potential
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Tempting the King
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The Icing on the Cake
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The Seduction Series Boxset
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Alpha
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Enemies With Benefits
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Become A Better Version of Yourself
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Silver Santa
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My Paper Heart
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Get Lucky
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Never Enough
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The Four Loves
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The Next Girl
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