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Before Jo Walton won the Hugo and Nebula Awards for her stunning Among Others, she published a trilogy set in a dark alternate postwar England that had negotiated "Peace with Honor" with Nazi Germany in 1941. These novels-Farthing, Ha'penny, and Half a Crown-are connected by common threads, but can be read in any order.In Ha'penny, England has completed its slide into fascist dictatorship. The last hopes of democracy seem extinguished. Then a ...

For the first time in paperback, the culminating novel of Hugo and Nebula Award-winner Jo Walton's stunning Small Change trilogy. Following the award-winning Farthing and its sequel Ha'penny, Half a Crown is an amazing alternate-world noir tale of resistance to encroaching fascism, from the author of Among Others.In 1941 the European war ended in the Farthing Peace, a rapprochement between Britain and Nazi Germany. The balls and banquets of Br...

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As any reader of Jo Walton's Among Others might guess, Walton is both an inveterate reader of SF and fantasy, and a chronic re-reader of books. In 2008, then-new science-fiction mega-site Tor.com asked Walton to blog regularly about her re-reading-about all kinds of older fantasy and SF, ranging from acknowledged classics, to guilty pleasures, to forgotten oddities and gems. These posts have consistently been among the most popular features of...

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A modern, holistic approach to the NVQ/SVQ Level 5 Leadership and Management Award in Health and Social Care

From an acclaimed expert, an engaging personal survey of the finalists and winners of science fiction's Hugo Awards from their beginning in 1953 to 2000.

A John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer recipient pens a tale of contention, love and money--among dragons. "Enthralling new fantasy . . . full of political intrigue and romance."--"Publishers Weekly.