Before Jo Walton won the Hugo and Nebula Awards for her stunningAmong Others, she published a trilogy set in a dark alternate postwar England that had negotiated "Peace with Honor" with Nazi Germany in 1941. These novels-Farthing, Ha'penny,andHalf a Crown-are connected by common threads, but can be read in any order.

InHa'penny, England has completed its slide into fascist dictatorship. The last hopes of democracy seem extinguished. Then a bomb explodes in a London suburb.

The brilliant but compromised Inspector Carmichael of Scotland Yard is assigned the case. What he finds leads him to a conspiracy of peers and communists-of staunch King-and-Country patriots and hardened IRA gunmen-to murder the Prime Minister and his ally, Adolf Hitler.

Against a background of domestic espionage and suppression, a band of idealists blackmails an actress who holds the key to the Fuhrer's death. From the ha'penny seats in the theatre to the ha'pennys that cover dead men's eyes, the conspiracy and the investigation swirl inexorably to a stunning conclusion.

Jo Walton has published thirteen novels, most recently Necessity. 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.

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• Winner, Prometheus Award Winner
• Short-listed, Spectrum Awards - Finalist

“Stellar… Horrifying and all-too-possible.” —RT Book Reviews, Top Pick! on Ha'penny

“Walton's use of a common genre template--this time the race-against-time thriller--allows her to develop the eerily contemporary underpinnings of her alternate history…. Gives us much to think about regarding her world and our own.” —Sarah Weinman, The Los Angeles Times on Ha'penny

“[Farthing and Ha'penny] are compulsively readable for their characters and plots. But it's [Walton's] observations about power that make them hard to put down.” —Baltimore City Paper

“Masterful work…. This is political suspense at its best and brightest.” —Bookslut.com