Half a Crown
In 1941 the European war ended in the Farthing Peace, a rapprochement
between Britain and Nazi Germany. The balls and banquets of Britain's
upper class never faltered, while British ships ferried 'undesirables'
across the Channel to board the cattle cars headed east.
Peter Carmichael is commander of the Watch, Britain's distinctly
British secret police. It's his job to warn the Prime Minister of
treason, to arrest plotters, and to discover Jews. The midnight knock
of a Watchman is the most dreaded sound in the realm.
Now, in 1960, a global peace conference is convening in London, where
Britain, Germany, and Japan will oversee the final partition of the
world. Hitler is once again on British soil. So is the long exiled Duke
of Windsor – and the rising gangs of 'British Power' streetfighters,
who consider the Government 'soft,' may be the former king's bid to
stage a coup d'état.
Amidst all this, two of the most unlikely persons in the realm will
join forces to oppose the fascists: a debutante whose greatest worry
until now has been where to find the right string of pearls, and the
Watch Commander himself.
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Jo Walton
Jo Walton has published thirteen novels, most recently Necessity. A fourteenth, Poor Relations is due out early in 2018. She has also published three poetry collections and an essay collection. She won the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer in 2002, the World Fantasy Award for Tooth and Claw in 2004, the Hugo and Nebula awards for Among Others in 2012, and in 2014 both the Tiptree Award for My Real Children and the Locus Non Fiction award for What Makes This Book So Great. She comes from Wales but lives in Montreal where the food and books are much better. She gets bored easily so she tends to write books that are different from each other. She also reads a lot, enjoys travel, talking about books, and eating great food. She plans to live to be ninety-nine and write a book every year. She takes writing biographies of herself terribly seriously at all times.
Small Change
Small Change consists of three books. The current recommended reading order for the series is provided below.
