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Half a Crown

A Story of a World that Could Have Been

Small Change (Volume 3)

Author: Jo Walton

Half a Crown

Half a Crown

$11.99

About This Book

Following the award-winning Farthing and its sequel Ha'penny, the culminating novel in an alternate-world tale of resistance to encroaching Fascism

Page Count
320
On Sale
04/01/2010

Book Details

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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Imprint Publisher

Tor Books

ISBN

9781429954631

In The News

“Stunningly powerful…. A standout. Mainstream readers should be enthralled as well.” —Publishers Weekly (Starred Review) on Farthing


“If le Carré scares you, try Jo Walton.” —Ursula K. LeGuin on Farthing

“A 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.” —Cory Doctorow on Ha'Penny

“Haunting…. Like meticulously nested Matroyshka dolls, both Farthing and Ha'penny reveal complex arguments layered in their elegantly structured narratives.” —Sarah Weinman, Los Angeles Times

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Half a Crown

Half a Crown

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