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A Necklace of Raindrops by Joan Aiken; Jan Pienkowski (Illustrator)
27.99 AUD
Category: Classics
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 ideas, all w ...Show more
Arabel, Mortimer and the Escaped Black Mamba (Arabel and Mortimer #2) by Joan Aiken
14.95 AUD
Category: Childrens | Series: Arabel and Mortimer
When Arabel and the raven Mortimer spend a fun-packed evening with their favourite babysitter, Chris Cross, they have no idea of the chaos they create in their wake. A reckless game of dressing up and hide and seek results in a big crash, a trumpet wedged onto Mortimer's head and a milk shortage. While ...Show more
Arabel and Mortimer Stories by Joan Aiken
14.99 AUD
Category: Childrens
When Arabel's father drives his taxi home late one night he comes across 'a large black bird, with a hairy fringe around its beak.' He takes it home and, from that moment on, life is never the same again for the Jones family. Arabel's raven is called Mortimer - and he's one in a million. 'Nevermore!' h ...Show more
Arabel's Raven (Arabel and Mortimer #1) by Joan Aiken
14.95 AUD
Category: Childrens | Series: Arabel and Mortimer
The first story about Arabel and her pet raven Mortimer. In Arabel's Raven, Mr Jones, while driving his taxi, notices 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,' sh ...Show more
Black Hearts in Battersea by AIKEN JOAN
16.95 AUD
Category: Classics
Simon, the foundling from The Wolves of Willoughby Chase, arrives in London to meet an old friend and pursue the study of painting. Instead he finds himself unwittingly in the middle of a wicked crew's fiendish caper to overthrow the good King James and the Duke and Duchess of Battersea. With the help o ...Show more
Black Hearts in Battersea (Wolves of Willoughby Chase #2) by Joan Aiken
9.99 AUD
Category: Childrens | Series: Wolves of Willoughby Chase
'Wait, wait! Save us! What'll we do?' Simon is determined to become a painter when he grows up so he sets off to London to make his fortune. But the city is plagued by wolves and mysterious disappearances. The Twite household, where Simon is lodging, seems particularly shifty. Before he even gets a chan ...Show more
Bridle the Wind (Felix #2) by Joan Aiken
16.95 AUD
Category: Childrens | Series: Felix
Packed-off to boarding school and bullied by his peers, Felix feels sad and trapped. Although he has a home in England, his heart lies in Spain - so he runs away. But Felix's journey is cut short when his ship is caught in a storm off the French coast. Despite being shipwrecked and then held prisoner in ...Show more
CUCKOO TREE by AIKEN JOAN
29.99 AUD
Category: Classics
When Dido Twite sets foot back on English soil, more mischief awaits. As her friend Captain Hughes recovers from a carriage accident, Dido stays at the Dogkennel Cottages and meets the odd inhabitants of Tegleaze Manor: strange old Lady Tegleaze, her nephew, Tobit, and his wizened, witchy nurse, Sannie. ...Show more
Cold Shoulder Road by Joan Aiken
24.95 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: The\Wolves Chronicles Ser.
Is Twite and her cousin, Arun, use their telepathic gifts to find Arun's missing mother in this gripping adventure set in an alternate British kingdom When Is Twite and her cousin, Arun, return to Cold Shoulder Road in Folkestone after their astonishing adventures in the North, the town is deserted and ...Show more
Dangerous Games by Joan Aiken
27.95 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Wolves Chronicles (Paperback)
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 in pursuit of Lord Herodsfoot, roving ambassador to the ageing King James III, Dido Twite's search has led her to the remote South Sea islan ...Show more
Deception by Joan Aiken
22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Two very different, but physically identical, young ladies meet at a boarding school once attended by Jane Austen. Joan Aiken's engrossing regency novel is perfect for fans of the major Netflix romantic drama series, Bridgerton. Self-righteous Louisa wants to escape her grand family life in Northumberla ...Show more
Dido and Pa by Joan Aiken
29.99 AUD
Category: Classics
Readers who have followed Dido Twite's escapades in Black Hearts in Battersea and Nightbirds on Nantucket will welcome her return in another wild adventure. Now back in print, Dido and Pa continues the Wolves Chronicles, the exhilarating and imaginative series that stemmed from Joan Aiken's classic The ...Show more