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 With foreword by Jill Paton Walsh.