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I have been on nodding terms with death since age nineteen. Death holds precious little mystery for me. During the last sixteen years I have eaten death for breakfast . . .For accomplished writer and chef Clytie Churchill suffering and love come hand in hand. The life of each person she loves seems to come to a desperate end - sickness, suicide, death by drowning, orphan and widower Clytie has grieved through it all. During a long night remini...

Joan Aiken was born in Rye, Sussex in 1924, daughter of the American poet Conrad Aiken, and started writing herself at the age of five. Since the 1960s she wrote full time and published over 100 books. Best known for her children¿s books such as The Wolves of Willoughby Chase and Midnight is a Place, she also wrote extensively for adults and published many contemporary and historical novels, including sequels to novels by Jane Austen. In 1968 ...

One day a few years from now you'll be busy with something and these stories will come back to you.

For use in schools and libraries only. Three children become involved in a series of adventures when left under the care of a detestable governess in a rural English manor.

Arabel Jones and her pet raven, Mortimer, find adventure wherever they go. In this silly sequel to "Arabel's Raven, " when they take a cruise, Mortimer floats out to sea on a grand piano. When they go to the zoo, Mortimer tries to get even with three giraffes that stole his doughnuts. Even at home, there's an excitement when the rambunctious raven flies away with a priceless treasure that was buried at their local park--King Arthur's sword! Ar...

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--but Arabel loves her new feathered friend, whom she names Mortimer. Chaos follows Mortimer, the zany and impulsive raven, wherever he goes and the Jones family is not the same after young Arabel Jon...

A masterful, compelling story from an award-winning author, this is the anniversary edition of a story every child and parent will love.Lucas is lonely. Orphaned and sent to live with his formidable guardian in a vast mansion, he longs for a friend.Then Anna-Marie arrives. She's spoilt and wilful - and practically half his age. Lucas feels more alone than ever.But one night something terrible happens. Lucas and Anna-Marie face a terrifying and...

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 for the coast and a new life. But his journey across the mountains and over the sea does not prove to be plain sailing - as Felix soon discovers . . .

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The first complete collection of the Armitage stories--including four published here for the first time.

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Simon llega a Londres con la ilusión de estudiar pintura, pero el amigo que debía acogerlo en su habitación ha desaparecido sin dejar rastro. Convencido de que los caseros ocultan algo, Simon se propone aclarar el misterio y pronto se verá envuelto en un maquiavélico complot ideado por un grupo de rufianes que intentan derrocar al rey Jacobo y acabar con los duques de Battersea, en cuya mansión trabaja su vieja amiga Sophie. Es una época de vi...

Joan Aiken was born in Sussex in 1924. She was the daughter of the American poet, Conrad Aiken, her sister, Jane Aiken Hodge, is also a novelist. Before joining the 'family business' herself, Joan had a variety of jobs, including working for the BBC, the United Nations Information Centre and then as features editor for a short story magazine. Her first children's novel, The Kingdom of the Cave, was published in 1960. Joan Aiken wrote over a hu...

Joan Aiken was born in Sussex in 1924. She was the daughter of the American poet, Conrad Aiken, her sister, Jane Aiken Hodge, is also a novelist. Before joining the 'family business' herself, Joan had a variety of jobs, including working for the BBC, the United Nations Information Centre and then as features editor for a short story magazine. Her first children's novel, The Kingdom of the Cave, was published in 1960. Joan Aiken wrote over a hu...

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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 Wolves of Willoughby Chase.Dido Twite is finally back home in London and reunited with her old friend Simon, now the Duke of Battersea and a fa...

Dido faces fire, flood and execution as she unravels New Cumbria's dark secrets. But has she met her match in the shape of the country's tyrannical queen, whose secret of eternal youth seems suspiciously linked to the lack of children in the land.

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