Joan Aiken

Young Arabel's life is changed forever when her father, a taxi driver, brings home an injured bird he finds in the street. This wacky raven eats everything in sight, answers the telephone by squawking "Nevermore!", and causes chaos wherever he goes....

Wicked wolves and a grim governess threaten Bonnie and her cousin Sylvia when Bonnie's parents leave Willoughby Chase for a sea voyage. Left in the care of the cruel Miss Slighcarp, the girls can hardly believe what is happening to their once happy home. The servants are dismissed, the furniture...

In this silly sequel to Arabel's Raven, when they take a cruise, Mortimer floats out to sea on a grand piano....

Included here are three BBC Radio full-cast dramatisations of the classic novels from Joan Aiken's 'Wolves Chronicles', a sequence of novels set in an alternate 19th-century England ruled by Stuart kings....

Aiken makes use of the hallmark of Gothic fiction—the haunted house—in this story of three authors whose lives become inextricably tied to Lamb House....

Young Arabel's life is changed forever when her father, a taxi driver, brings home an injured bird he finds in the street....

Here are eight gloriously imaginative stories for eight satisfying sessions of bedtime reading. There’s a flying apple pie, a cat that’s bigger than an elephant, a house that lays an egg, storybook animals that leap out of their books at night, and a wealth of other wonderful characters and...

Everybody in the elves’ village was in a terrible state of worry and confusion, dashing hither and thither. And all because the King of the Elves had lost his crown....

All these delightful stories are concerned with sleeping and waking, dreams, and night time....

A truly creepy band of ghosts has been conjured up in this unusual and compelling collection of tales. In New York, Zia Tisna’s weird dolls keep watch over a pair of young lovers....

We are taken to peculiar lands where all the magical things that only seem to happen in dreams really do happen....

These 11 stories include, amongst others, a terrifying Nordic curse and a country garden inhabited by a deadly ghost....

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