Paperback
Ha'penny
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- Paperback
320 pages
- Release Date
5 February 2014
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Summary
In Ha’penny, England has completed its slide into fascist dictatorship. The last hopes of democracy seem extinguished. Then a bomb explodes in a London suburb.
The brilliant but compromised Inspector Carmichael of Scotland Yard is assigned the case. What he finds leads him to a conspiracy of peers and communists - of staunch King-and-Country patriots and hardened IRA gunmen - to murder the Prime Minister and his ally, Adolf Hitler.Against a background of domestic e…Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781472112989 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1472112989 |
| Author: | Jo Walton |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Imprint: | Corsair |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 320 |
| Release Date: | 5 February 2014 |
| Weight: | 231g |
| Dimensions: | 134mm x 200mm x 21mm |
| Series: | Small Change |
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Stellar Horrifying and all-too-possible. - RT Book Reviews
Walton s use of a common genre template this time the race-against-time thriller allows her to develop the eerily contemporary underpinnings of her alternate history . Gives us much to think about regarding her world and our own. - The Los Angeles Times[Farthing and Ha penny] are compulsively readable for their characters and plots. But it s [Walton’s] observations about power that make them hard to put down. - Baltimore City PaperA literary Guernica a top-notch thriller set in a terrified Britain that is all too willing to trade freedom for security, and which gets neither.Haunting…Like meticulously nested Matroyshka dolls, both Farthing and Ha’Penny reveal complex arguments layered in their elegantly structured narratives. - Los Angeles TimesMasterful work . This is political suspense at its best and brightest - Bookslut.comAbout The Author
Jo Walton
Jo Walton comes from Wales but lives in Montreal, where the food and books are much better. She writes science fiction and fantasy, reads a lot, talks about books, and eats great food. She plans to live to be ninety-nine and write a book every year.
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