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nineveh_ukCourtesy of http://eurocrime.blogspot.com/2009/04/new-peter-wimsey-novel.html
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New Peter Wimsey novel
Jill Paton Walsh mentioned to this at last year's Harrogate Crime Writer's Festival - that she was working on a third Wimsey novel. The news is confirmed today at BookBrunch, though the finished result won't be available until autumn 2010:
"Hodder has bought THE ATTENBURY EMERALDS, Jill Paton Walsh’s third Lord Peter Wimsey novel, from Bruce Hunter of David Higham Associates on behalf of the estate of Dorothy L Sayers. The story is set after World War II, but its roots go back to 1921 and Lord Peter Wimsey’s first case, in which the Attenbury Emeralds were stolen – a mystery alluded to by Sayers in a number of novels but never resolved.
The Sayers’ trustees asked Paton Walsh, who was shortlisted for the Booker Prize for her novel Knowledge of Angels, to complete an unfinished Sayers’ story, Thrones, Dominations, which had been found in the offices of her agent. It was published in 1998 to considerable acclaim, and was a Sunday Times bestseller. Like that novel, The Attenbury Emeralds will follow closely Sayers’ own writing about Lord Peter Wimsey, as told in her 11 novels and five collections of short stories. Publication is scheduled for autumn 2010."
As well as completing Thrones, Dominations, Walsh also wrote A Presumption of Death which was based on Dorothy L Sayers' letters.
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I need to go home and see _exactly_ what Sayers wrote about the Attenbury Emeralds, and Peter's activities in 1921. I doubt that it will encourage me. I can just see the contrast between nice "Let's make Peter secretly middle class" domestic life with Harriet and the boys (who will of course be at the local grammar school rather than Eton) and nihilistic mistress-keeping in Paris. Hopefully there will be lots of Parker. JPW seems to do him a bit better - possibly because he is already conventional and middle-class.
But yes, of course I'm going to buy the book. I won't like it, but I'll still have to buy it.
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New Peter Wimsey novel
Jill Paton Walsh mentioned to this at last year's Harrogate Crime Writer's Festival - that she was working on a third Wimsey novel. The news is confirmed today at BookBrunch, though the finished result won't be available until autumn 2010:
"Hodder has bought THE ATTENBURY EMERALDS, Jill Paton Walsh’s third Lord Peter Wimsey novel, from Bruce Hunter of David Higham Associates on behalf of the estate of Dorothy L Sayers. The story is set after World War II, but its roots go back to 1921 and Lord Peter Wimsey’s first case, in which the Attenbury Emeralds were stolen – a mystery alluded to by Sayers in a number of novels but never resolved.
The Sayers’ trustees asked Paton Walsh, who was shortlisted for the Booker Prize for her novel Knowledge of Angels, to complete an unfinished Sayers’ story, Thrones, Dominations, which had been found in the offices of her agent. It was published in 1998 to considerable acclaim, and was a Sunday Times bestseller. Like that novel, The Attenbury Emeralds will follow closely Sayers’ own writing about Lord Peter Wimsey, as told in her 11 novels and five collections of short stories. Publication is scheduled for autumn 2010."
As well as completing Thrones, Dominations, Walsh also wrote A Presumption of Death which was based on Dorothy L Sayers' letters.
***
I need to go home and see _exactly_ what Sayers wrote about the Attenbury Emeralds, and Peter's activities in 1921. I doubt that it will encourage me. I can just see the contrast between nice "Let's make Peter secretly middle class" domestic life with Harriet and the boys (who will of course be at the local grammar school rather than Eton) and nihilistic mistress-keeping in Paris. Hopefully there will be lots of Parker. JPW seems to do him a bit better - possibly because he is already conventional and middle-class.
But yes, of course I'm going to buy the book. I won't like it, but I'll still have to buy it.
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