“This is how it all began…” From ‘A Necklace of Raindrops’ to ‘The Patchwork Quilt’, here are eight classic stories to treasure and enjoy. Beginning and ending with a birthday, this spell-binding collection conjures up a world filled with magic, where wishes can come true....
Each story is long out of print, and set in an imaginary and magical “other” London. A thread runs between each of the five novellas, and the collection as a whole represents Aiken at her mysterious best! Brought together for the very first time, these...
Rediscover the A Puffin Book series and bring the best-loved classics to a new generation – including this thrilling edition of The Shadow Guests. Following the double disappearance of his mother and older brother, Cosmo Curtoy is sent to live with his strange cousin in...
Rediscover the A Puffin Book series and bring the best-loved classics to a new generation – including this treasured edition of The Whispering Mountain. Owen and Arabis live in a quiet town in Wales, near the Whispering Mountain, rumoured to be where a long-lost King...
Rediscover the A Puffin Book series and bring the best-loved classics to a new generation – including this wonderful new edition of The Winter Sleepwalker and Other Stories. Join master storyteller Joan Aiken and illustrator extraordinaire Quentin Blake for eight original and wildly imaginative modern...
A beautiful new paperback edition, featuring a delightful new Afterword by Lizza Aiken – Joan Aiken’s daughter – on how the story came to be written, plus fascinating material from the author’s archive to celebrate the 60th anniversary of this wild, evocative and timeless fantasy....
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