Eva Ibbotson

Anna, a young countess, has lived in the glittering city of St Petersburg all her life. But when revolution tears Russia apart, her now-penniless family is forced to flee to England....

A glamorous woman arrives and sweeps Annika away to a crumbling castle in Germany. But there is much more to this new woman than meets the eye - and none of it is good....

In 1896, in a pilgrim church in the Alps, an abandoned baby girl is found by a cook and a housemaid. Annika grows up in the servants' quarters. One day a glamorous stranger arrives at the door....

Susanna Weber is the best dress maker in Imperial Vienna. Through skill and hard work, she now owns her own dress shop, looking out over the beautiful Madensky Square....

An unforgettable love story....

Spring, 1922. Tessa is a beautiful, tiny, dark-eyed princess who’s given up her duties to follow her heart and work backstage at the Viennese opera....

Panic seizes the country when three children are seized by a gang of kidnapping aunts....

Fulton Snodde-Brittles has gone to the Dial a Ghost agency with an evil plan....

Ruth lives in Vienna and is wildly in love with Heini Radik, a brilliant young pianist....

Rupert, the young Earl of Westerholme, returns home from the war, and Anna falls in love with him. But Rupert is engaged, and Anna is only a servant. Or so everybody thinks....

Maia, an orphan, can't wait to reach her distant relatives a thousand miles up the Amazon....

Arriman the Awful, Wizard of the North, is tired of being the most evil wizard in the world so he decides he must get married and have a son to take over....

Beyond the everyday world of King's Cross Station lies an island of oddities and magic. When their infant Prince is stolen, the island's magical residents form a team to rescue him....

Weekly ballet classes are Harriet Morton's only escape from her intolerably dull life. So when she is chosen to join a corps de ballet which is setting off on a tour of the Amazon, she leaps at the chance....

The Dragonfly Pool by Eva Ibbotson is an exciting story of friendship and determination during the Second World War, from the award-winning author of Journey to the River Sea and The Star of Kazan.

When Madlyn and Rollo are sent to stay at ancient Clawstone Castle, they soon fall in love with the house and its eccentric, penniless inhabitants - and the cattle of Clawstone Park....

A thrilling novel from the best-selling children's author....

The ghosts of Craggyford Castle have been happy for 500 years. But outside the world is changing. Soon there will be nothing left of their old haunts. So they set out to find a new home....

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....

Heckie is determined not to be just a witch. With the help of local wizards and a little boy, she sets about putting the world to rights. But then she falls under the spell of smarming, charming Mr Knapsack....