Joan Aiken

"Here is the whisper in the night, the creak upstairs, that half-remembered ghost story that won't let you sleep, the sound that raises gooseflesh, the wish you'd checked the lock on the door before it got really, really dark"--

Selected Strange Stories

The People in the Castle

The outsider who threatens to outshine her new friend Emma in Jane Austen's classic novel of manners and romance takes on a deeper life, with her own feelings and desires

The Secret Story of the Second Heroine in Jane Austen's Emma

Jane Fairfax

In northern England in 1842, fourteen-year-old Lucas leads a lonely, monotonous existence in the house of his unpleasant guardian until the unexpected arrival of an unusual little girl presages a series of events that completely change his life.

Midnight is a Place

Quentin Blake

The first story about Arabel and her pet raven Mortimer. In Arabel's Raven, Mr Jones, while driving his taxi, notives something bedraggled in the road. He stops and discovers an injured raven. He takes it home and his four-year-old daughter Arabel falls in love at first sight. 'His name is Mortimer,' she announces and Mortimer has found a home. A series of thefts and a robber quarrel are only two of the dramas in this delightful tale in which Mortimer and Arabel find their ways straight to the reader's heart.

Arabel's Raven

What happened after Fanny Price's marriage to Edmund Bertram? Here, by the author of Eliza's Daughter, is a witty sequel to Jane Austen's classic novel.

Mansfield Revisited

Winner of the Guardian Prize for Fiction In the small town of Pennygaff, where Owen has been sent to live after his mother's death, a legendary golden harp has been found. Knowing of the prophesy of the Harp of Teirtu, Owen must prevent the magic harp from falling into the evil clutches of its reputed owner, the sinister and diabolical Lord Mayln. But it won't be easy. Owen and his friend Arabis are plunged into a hair-raising adventure of intrigue, kidnapping, exotic underground worlds, savage beasts...even murder. For only too late will Owen learn that Lord Mayln will stop at nothing to have the golden harp. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

The Whispering Mountain

Prince Michael is accompanied by the palace cat and a wise old mare on a long and dangerous search for the elusive Under People.

The Kingdom and the Cave

1832 - a period of English History that never happened. 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 (both orphans) fall into the hands of evil Miss Slighcarp, they must use all their wits to escape unscathed - for the governess is more cruel and merciless than the wolves that surround the great house of Willoughby Chase.

The Wolves of Willoughby Chase

Roman

Fanny und Scylla oder Die zweite Frau

die Geschichte einer Täuschung : Roman

Du bist ich

A collection of nine fairy tales including "The Queen with Screaming Hair," "The Spider in the Bath," and "Lost--One Pair of Legs."

The Last Slice of Rainbow and Other Stories

The Scream (Shock Shop)

Three further adventures of Arabel and her pet raven, Mortimer, include "The Mystery of Mr. Jones's Disappearing Taxi," "Mortimer's cross," and "Mortimer's Portrait on Glass."

Mortimer's Cross

Four adventures of Arabel and her pet raven Mortimer: Mortimer Says Nothing, Arabel's Birthday, Mr. Jone's Rest Cure, and A Call at the Joneses'.

Mortimer Says Nothing

The Adventures of Arabel and Mortimer

Lady Catherine de Bourgh und ihre Tochter geniessen ihr Leben auf ihrem Landgut Rosings Park. Doch ein Schneesturm, eine Entführung und ein versuchter Raub bringen erhebliche Unruhe in die Idylle.

Der Schmuck der Lady Catherine

Hattie Ward, one of the sisters from Jane Austen's Mansfield Park, has been sent to live with her uncle by her family who no longer wants her around them, but once settled at her new residence, she finds a new battle with Lady Ursula over the affections of a special man. 15,000 first printing.

The Youngest Miss Ward

In the sequel to Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility, Eliza's daughter, Liz, grows up as a charming, well-educated, irrepressible hoyden in the town of Byblow Bottom, until she is brought back to the Dashwood sisters' home. By the author of Jane Fairfax.

Eliza's Daughter

Includes The Watsons, a fragment of a novel written by Austen between 1803 and 1805, and Emma Watson, a full-length continuation of the fragment written by Joan Aiken in 1996.

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