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Joan Aiken
In this novel Simon arrives in London and has his first introduction to the indomitable Dido Twite who is to play such a significant part in his life- and in…
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Eight wonderfully imaginative modern fairy tales from the mind of Joan Aiken, now back in print after 30 years
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The Five-Minute Marriage is an enchanting regency romance from critically acclaimed author Joan Aiken, whose novels have been compared to Georgette Heyer
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Can Bonnie and Sylvia outwit the wicked Miss Slighcarp and her network of criminals, forgers and snitches? BACKSTORY: Find out a few things you didn’t know about wolves and learn…
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Shipwrecked Dido Twite is picked up by a whaling ship - and then finds herself sinking deeper and deeper into trouble.
The Weeping Ash is the second action-packed regency adventure in Joan Aiken’s Paget Family saga.
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Deception is a Regency Romance from critically acclaimed author Joan Aiken who has been compared to Georgette Heyer and Jane Austen
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The Youngest Miss Ward by Joan Aiken, is an innovative sequel to Jane Austen’s most controversial novel, Mansfield Park
Joan Aiken’s romantic Regency Adventure The Smile of The Stranger is part of her Paget Family Saga series and perfect for fans of Bridgerton
When Ned is sent to stay with his aunt and uncle in Thunder’s Pocket, he’s not very pleased. But from the moment a bird flies into the train carriage on…
A beautiful Cornish coastal village is the setting for a highly sinister conspiracy involving a kidnapped baby, mysterious monks and an almost irresistible new perfume… ‘Joan Aiken’s triumph with this…
Joan Aiken, MBE
Joan Aiken, classic author of The Wolves of Willoughby Chase, wrote the Armitage family stories all throughout her life - from when she was a teenager onwards. This is the…
A collection of stories for children by Joan Aiken - brought together in this new edition for the very first time - to celebrate the centenary of the author's birth.
Dido Twite having foiled a Hanoverian attempt to slide St Paul’s Cathedral into the Thames has assisted at the coronation of King Richard IV and returened to Sussex. Now she…
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Dido’s sister, Is, travels north to try and find her lost cousin. But instead of the promised Playland, she discovers an underground kingdom where children work as slaves in the…
Originally published: Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1978.
The Paget family is irrevocably changed in this Regency period romance reissue from legendary author Joan Aiken
New bride Fanny Paget experiences shame and torment in her loveless arranged marriage…
A young woman from Victorian England finds her life irrevocably changed when she’s thrust into the free-thinking circles of Paris as a governess in the home of a comte and…
Clytie Churchill’s life has been guided by love and death, but there’s a mystery from her past that she is forced to revisit before she can move on in this…
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Arun returns to his mother’s house on Cold Shoulder Road, only to find it deserted and flood-ravaged. With the help of his indomitable cousin, Is Twite, Arun sets off in…
There is eerie trouble once again in the Cornish village of St Boan, often known as Thunder’s Pocket. Some hundred-year-old water pipes are being replaced and the digging has disturbed…
First comes marriage. Then comes love. Then things get really complicated. Desperate to help her ailing mother, Delphie Carteret agrees to a sham wedding with to her cousin, Gareth. His…
The first complete collection of the Armitage stories–including four published here for the first time.
Packed-off to boarding school and bullied by his peers, Felix feels sad and trapped. Despite being shipwrecked and then held prisoner in a remote monastery, Felix’s spirit is far from…
‘It’s a rotten old job being King!’ says Dido Twite. Her friend King Simon agrees - his scheming courtiers want to marry him off to a pushy princess, and he…
Cosmo Curtoys returns to England following the strange disappearance of his mother and brother in Australia and is visited by the shadow guests–ghost-like figures from his family’s past.
We must leave tomorrow at dawn . Dashing and loyal, he speeds towards Villaverde - and a rescue mission. Donna Conchita’s children are kidnapped and Felix may be reunited with…
The Girl From Paris is an enchanting regency romance from critically acclaimed author Joan Aiken, whose novels have been compared to Georgette Heyer and are perfect for fans of Bridgerton…
In the small town of Pennygaff, the legendary Harp of Teirtu is found - and lost again. For young Owen Hughes and his friend Arabis, it is the start of…
A brilliant collection of spine-chilling tales by Joan Aiken, author of The Wolves of Willoughby Chase.
From a mysterious traveller who leaves an injured horse with a stranger, to a…
Bound to keep a promise to her dead uncle, Is travels to the mysterious north country to find two missing boys, one of them a prince, and to discover why…
As they search for Arun’s mother, Is Twite and her cousin Arun are grateful for their ability to communicate telepathically when they find themselves in a series of dangerous predicaments…
Dido Twite, with the help of some sacred shaman healers, must foil a sinister plot to overthrow the king of a remote South Sea island healers Sailing the high seas…
Dido Twite is aboard the Thrush, trying to return to England after her adventures in America. But orders have been sent to find Lord Herodsfoot, said to be on Aratu…
Despised by his Spanish relatives and ignored by his distant grandfather, twelve-year-old orphan Felix Brooke is lonely and unhappy. Felix packs his bag, jumps on his trusty mule and heads…
The second book in an adventure trilogy set in the early nineteenth century
The third book in an adventure trilogy set in the early nineteenth century
Aboard the man o'war, the Thrush, on the way back to London from Nantucket , Dido and crew are summoned to the aid of the tyrannical Queen of New Cumbria…
Good King James III is on the throne and the country is ravaged by wolves which have migrated through the newly-opened Channel Tunnel. When Sylvia and Bonnie fall into the…
An inheritance comes with its own sinister dangers… ‘Joan Aiken’s triumph with this genre is that she does it so much better than others’ New York Times Book Review
Trapped with family can be murder … ‘Joan Aiken’s triumph with this genre is that she does it so much better than others’ New York Times Book Review
A sentence of death…and a journey into the unknown ‘Joan Aiken’s triumph with this genre is that she does it so much better than others’ New York Times Book Review
Dark family secrets can be murder … ‘Joan Aiken’s triumph with this genre is that she does it so much better than others’ New York Times Book Review
