{"product_id":"hapenny-a-story-of-a-world-that-could-have-been-9780765323149","title":"Ha'penny: A Story of a World That Could Have Been","description":"\u003cp\u003eBefore Jo Walton won the Hugo and Nebula Awards for her stunning \u003ci\u003eAmong Others, \u003c\/i\u003e she published a trilogy set in a dark alternate postwar England that had negotiated \"Peace with Honor\" with Nazi Germany in 1941. These novels-\u003ci\u003eFarthing, Ha'penny, \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eHalf a Crown\u003c\/i\u003e-are connected by common threads, but can be read in any order. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eHa'penny, \u003c\/i\u003e England has completed its slide into fascist dictatorship. The last hopes of democracy seem extinguished. Then a bomb explodes in a London suburb. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAgainst 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eJO WALTON won the Hugo and Nebula Awards in 2012 for her novel \u003ci\u003eAmong Others\u003c\/i\u003e. Before that, she won the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer, and her novel \u003ci\u003eTooth and Claw\u003c\/i\u003e won the World Fantasy Award in 2004. The novels of her Small Change sequence--\u003ci\u003eFarthing, Ha'penny\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eHalf a Crown\u003c\/i\u003e--have won acclaim ranging from national newspapers to the \u003ci\u003eRomantic Times\u003c\/i\u003e Critics' Choice Award. A native of Wales, she lives in Montreal.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Tor Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50492003614994,"sku":"9780765323149","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_c6fa9d46-fedc-473a-a14b-fff328a17e11.jpg?v=1730565470","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/hapenny-a-story-of-a-world-that-could-have-been-9780765323149","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}