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 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, 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'etat. 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 é uma autora canadense de fantasia, ficção científica e poeta. Walton nasceu em Aberdare, no Vale do Cynon de Gales e formou-se na Universidade de Lancaster. Ela viveu em Londres por dois anos, viveu em Lancaster, até 1997 e, em seguida, mudou-se para Swansea, onde viveu até se mudar para o Canadá em 2002. É casada com Dr. Emmet A. O'Brien e tem um filho chamado Alexander Walton.
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