Patricia M Conolly

Giants and the Joneses

"All wet!" said Poppy. "Yuk!" said Stephen. "Was that a kiss?" Before Colette could answer, it was her turn. She was lifted up and brought toward the shining pink lips. She closed her eyes. The next second she felt a dampness all over her cheek and an explosion in her ear. She dared herself to open...

Journey to the River Sea

It is 1910 and Maia, tragically orphaned at 13, has been sent from England to start a new life with distant relatives in Manaus, hundreds of miles up the Amazon. She is accompanied by an eccentric and mysterious governess who has secret reasons of her own for making the journey. Both soon discover a...

Dragonfly Pool

The Dragonfly Pool by Eva Ibbotson is an enchanting tale of friendship and determination during the Second World War, from the author of The Star of Kazan. Tally Hamilton is furious to hear she is being sent from London to a horrid, stuffy boarding school in the countryside. And all because of the s...

A Thousand Cuts: A Novel

It should be an open-and-shut case. Samuel Szajkowski, a recently hired history teacher, walked into a school assembly with a gun and murdered three students and a colleague before turning the weapon on himself. It was a tragedy that could not have been predicted. Szajkowski, it seems clear, was a p...

The Star of Kazan

The Burning Air

A stand-out author of deeply atmospheric psychological thrillers, Erin Kelly is on her way to joining the bestselling ranks of Kate Atkinson and Barbara Vine. Until now, the MacBride family has led a cozy life of upper-class privilege: good looks; tuition-free education at the prestigious private sc...

A Company of Swans, narrated by Patricia Connolly, 9 CDs [Complete & Unabridged Audio Work]

For nineteen-year-old Harriet Morton, life in 1912 Cambridge is as dry and dull as a biscuit. Her stuffy father and her opressive aunt Louisa allow her only one outlet: ballet. When a Russian ballet master comes to class searching for dancers to fill the corps of his ballet company before their Sout...

Journey to the River Sea [Kit: Cassettes/Hardcover]

In 1910, orphaned Maia is sent to Brazil from her London boarding school to live with distant, relatives. She is determined to meet each new experience with an open mind, despite classmates' warnings of flesh-eating fish and Indians with poisoned arrows. Best-selling author Eva Ibbotson takes listen...

Patricia Colly

Patricia Conolly (born 29 August 1933) is an Australian stage actress. Biography[ edit]. Conolly began her stage career in Australia where she grew up, and has...