Joan Aiken

In this new collection taken from her very first short stories, written while she and her young family were living in a bus, shortly after…

In the late 1930's as the threat of war is building in Germany, twelve year old Julia arrives to spend the summer with her famous…

"What does a cockatrice enjoy most for dinner? Anyone it can find." So the alarmed inhabitants of England discover when a plague of monsters--known as…

When Davey and his family moved to the city from the island of Muckle Burra off the coast of Scotland, they left his grandmother behind.…

"LAMB HOUSE is in Rye, an ancient town of East Sussex, England. It is very much a real place, even a famous one, yet The…

When Meg Frazer's actress mother is killed in a Hollywood accident, nineteen-year-old Meg finds it hard to adapt to life in Britain with her cold,…

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...…

A child in danger, an isolated house in the depths of winter - and a killer on the loose... 'Don't miss ... guaranteed unputdownable' Observer…

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…

'Waiting for her, he was on edge with expectation. He had never planned a murder before ... Only sheer necessity was making him do it…

When Charles is given just twelve months to live, his doctor sister takes him to a small Cornish village to end his days. They are…

Dark family secrets can be murder . . . 'Joan Aiken's triumph with this genre is that she does it so much better than others'…