Farthing (Small Change Trilogy Book 1)
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They are about serious subjects -- like consent issues, and what is the good life, but they're also fun, I have another trilogy, the Small Change books, Farthing, Ha'Penny and Half a Crown. The first two are set in , and the third in Farthing has the form of a country house mystery, Ha'Penny is a theatre thriller, and Half a Crown is about a debutante about to have a season and go to Oxford, but in a dystopia. These are for people who like mysteries, or alternate history, and can cope with applicability. My favourite description of these is "like a stiletto wrapped in a buttered crumpet.
It's written like Trollope, and all the characters are dragons, worried about marrying well, and religious issues, and being promoted, or eaten. My favourite description of this is "simultaneously creepy and charming" My first three novels are related -- The King's Peace and the King's Name are one book in two volumes, and they're Arthurian fantasy with a female hero.
The Prize in the Game is a retelling of the Irish myth the Tain, which had been backstory to the first two, but which I wrote when I realised most people aren't all that familiar with the Tain. These are early work but actually I love them to bits. Also, they gave me the John W.
Campbell award for best new writer when this was all I'd written, so some other people must think they're good. But I must admit I have figured out some stuff since. If you like the stuff about books in Among Others, or if you want to increase your TBR list by hearing me burble about how great things are, you want these. My real grown up website with info about her books, stories, plays and poetry is at http: And I'm on Twitter as bluejowalton and on Goodreads.
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My Patreon, which is for poetry, and which supports my book buying, art viewing, and theatre going habits, and is the best way to support me directly though buying my books is also great! I'm hoping to be able to bring out a big collection in a year or so. I have a short story collection called Starlings from Tachyon, which collects all my short fiction to date, as well as some poetry, and a play. I don't write a whole lot of short fiction -- this is absolutely all the short work I have written in the time I wrote all these novels.
May these books find the widest possible audience. Well, I thought, I can manage. My real grown up website with info about her books, stories, plays and poetry is at http: Trivia About Farthing Small C They barely tolerate her husband, but invite the two of them to a weekend in the country, in which the very man responsible for negotiating the end of the war is found dead, stabbed through the heart with a yellow star like the kind they make Jews wear in Europe pinned to his chest. Amazon Restaurants Food delivery from local restaurants. My God, are you mad?
There's one story in the universe of the Small Change books, but otherwise nothing is closely related to anything, but you can see themes I'm interested in, like what happens after the ends and at the edges of stories. Get to Know Us.
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Ninefox Gambit Machineries of Empire Book 1. Clockwork Boys Clocktaur War Book 1. Raven Stratagem Machineries of Empire Book 2. Revenant Gun Machineries of Empire Book 3. World Fantasy Award—winner Walton Tooth and Claw crosses genres without missing a beat with this stunningly powerful alternative history set in , eight years after Britain agreed to peace with Nazi Germany, leaving Hitler in control of the European continent. A typical gathering at the country estate of Farthing of the power elite who brokered the deal is thrown into turmoil when the main negotiator, Sir James Thirkie, is murdered, with a yellow star pinned to his chest with a dagger.
The author deftly alternates perspective between Lucy Kahn, the host's daughter, who has disgraced herself in her family's eyes by marrying a Jew, and Scotland Yard Inspector Peter Carmichael, who quickly suspects that the killer was not a Bolshevik terrorist. But while the whodunit plot is compelling, it's the convincing portrait of a country's incremental slide into fascism that makes this novel a standout.
Mainstream readers should be enthralled as well. On the first night, a major politician is found dead with a yellow Star of David pinned to his chest with a dagger. Daughter of the house Lucy and her Jewish husband had been surprised to be included. Clearly, their invitation was an obvious setup by someone in the Fascist Farthing Set who is trying to pin the murder on her husband.
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An investigator from Scotland Yard discerns that in addition to anti-Semitism, the homosexuality of some of the key figures plays a major role in the crime, and the investigator has his own secret that plays out as a significant factor in the outcome of the case. The accurately portrayed civilian setting will make the novel useful for world history classes, and it's a gripping read for teens who like a good English murder mystery. It's comparable to Agatha Christie's novels with substantial social issues and a heavier dose of history thrown in.
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The Germans continue to fight the Soviets, the American president is isolationist Charles Lindbergh, and the Jews left in Europe are living a nightmare. Against this background, the aristocratic, politically powerful Farthing set comes together for a country weekend. But when they wake up the first morning they discover that a powerful politician has been murdered in his bed, and it quickly becomes clear that whoever did this is trying to frame David.
Lyn said: My initial thoughts on reading Farthing by Jo Walton was: why do an Farthing (Small Change, #1) Rate this book See 1 question about Farthing . When this series got several mentions on The Incomparable (produced by. Eight years after they overthrew Churchill and led Britain into a separate peace with Hitler, the upper-crust families of the “Farthing set” are gathered for a.
The story alternates between two very different voices. Kindle Edition Verified Purchase. In Britain, the effects of the peace have been profound. Winston Churchill has been voted out of office and replaced, not with a Socialist, but with another Conservative. Farthing tells the tale of the investigation undertaken by Inspector Carmichael and Sergeant Royston of Scotland Yard. In alternating chapters, we view the action through the eyes of Lucy and the Inspector.
One person found this helpful. More along the lines of the Bernie Gunther series, but as an alternate history it is somehow more imposing because of the "what if" quality of it, rather than the "it was them," quality of the historical novel. Living just now in Tory Britain, the thin line between Fascism and aristocratic rule is all too clear, and one can easily imagine WWII going otherwise than it did.
One might even read "Muslim" for "Jew" and wonder if the characters in Farthing wouldn't feel comfortable in the UK of I'll certainly read the next two.