Télécharger le livre :  Fantastic Fables
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This final collection of Joan Aiken's stories, taken from nearly sixty years of her writing career, is rooted in the classic fables and fairy tales familiar to us all, but which she has brought up to date by adding her own voice, and a touch of that mysterious added...

Editeur : Gateway
Parution : 2023-12-07

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Télécharger le livre :  Weather Witches and Wise Women
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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 the end of the second world war, up until her most recent, Joan Aiken draws on the characters of women from folk and fairy tales...

Editeur : Gateway
Parution : 2023-11-08

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Télécharger le livre :  A Ghostly Gallery
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The stories in A Ghostly Gallery were written over a period of sixty years, the whole length of Joan Aiken's writing career; some appeared in her very first collections of what her father Conrad Aiken called "Twentieth century Fairy stories for the young of all ages."...

Editeur : Gateway
Parution : 2023-10-05

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Télécharger le livre :  Siren Stories
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These stories which have never been brought together before are taken from Joan Aiken's earliest writing years in the 1950s and 1960s when she was working for the English short story magazine, Argosy where they were first published. They demonstrate her wide ranging...

Editeur : Gateway
Parution : 2023-09-07

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Télécharger le livre :  Return to Harken House
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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 playwright father, only to find herself alone with Trudl, her Austrian stepmother. With Trudl preoccupied by the plight of her fellow...

Editeur : Gateway
Parution : 2022-12-01

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Télécharger le livre :  The Cockatrice Boys
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"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 cockatrices--invade their country and begin gobbling them up. They must be stopped! A plucky band of survivors dubbed...

Editeur : Gateway
Parution : 2022-11-24

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Télécharger le livre :  The Scream
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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. But now his parents are dead-after a car accident that left Davey confined to a wheelchair-and Gran has moved in to take care of him...

Editeur : Gateway
Parution : 2022-11-17

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Télécharger le livre :  The Haunting of Lamb House
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"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 Haunting of Lamb House is as elusive to review as it must have been to write. It is safe to say that no one but Joan Aiken could have written it, not...

Editeur : Gateway
Parution : 2022-11-10

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Télécharger le livre :  Night Fall
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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, distant father . . . and at night she is haunted by a strange dream of a face which she is sure has something to do with...

Editeur : Gateway
Parution : 2022-09-06

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Télécharger le livre :  The Gift Giving: Favourite Stories
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'Joan Aiken's invention seemed inexhaustible, her high spirits a blessing, her sheer storytelling zest a phenomenon' PHILLIP PULLMAN'One of the most important and interesting children's fiction writers of the last fifty years' NEIL GAIMAN 'The Gift Giving is the perfect...

Editeur : Virago
Parution : 2016-11-03
Collection : Virago Modern Classics
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Télécharger le livre :  The Kingdom and the Cave
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FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE WOLVES OF WILLOUGHBY CHASE'She was a literary treasure, and her books will continue to delight for years to come' PHILIP PULLMAN'Witty and endlessly inventive' CHRIS RIDDELL'She's one of the most important and interesting children's fiction...

Editeur : Virago
Parution : 2015-11-05
Collection : Virago Modern Classics
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Télécharger le livre :  The Serial Garden
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FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE WOLVES OF WILLOUGHBY CHASE'She's one of the most important and interesting children's fiction writers of the last fifty years' NEIL GAIMAN'What a thrill to discover this gem from the witty and endlessly inventive Joan Aiken' CHRIS RIDDELL'She is...

Editeur : Virago
Parution : 2015-08-06
Collection : Virago Modern Classics
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Télécharger le livre :  The Silence of Herondale
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A child in danger, an isolated house - and a killer on the loose...'Joan Aiken's triumph with this genre is that she does it so much better than others' New York Times Book ReviewSnow-covered fields and moors stretch away on all sides of Herondale House. Despite rumours...

Editeur : The Murder Room
Parution : 2014-12-14
Collection : Murder Room
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Télécharger le livre :  Trouble With Product X
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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 genre is that she does it so much better than others' New York Times...

Editeur : The Murder Room
Parution : 2014-12-14
Collection : Murder Room
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Télécharger le livre :  Died on a Rainy Sunday
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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 ReviewMarried to an ambitious but feckless architect and living in the pretentious show home they can ill afford, Jane is...

Editeur : The Murder Room
Parution : 2014-12-14
Collection : Murder Room
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Télécharger le livre :  Hate Begins at Home
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'Waiting for her, he was on edge with expectation. He had never planned a murder before ... Only sheer necessity was making him do it now ...'Coincidence couldn't explain the three accidental deaths. It had to be something more - something sinister? One old lady had...

Editeur : The Murder Room
Parution : 2014-12-14
Collection : Murder Room
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Télécharger le livre :  The Ribs of Death
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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 joined by other friends including Tuesday, the young author of an unexpectedly sensational novel that brings her nothing but...

Editeur : The Murder Room
Parution : 2014-12-14
Collection : Murder Room
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Télécharger le livre :  The Fortune Hunters
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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 ReviewAnnette, an increasingly amnesiac magazine editor who has inherited an unexpected fortune, leaves London...

Editeur : The Murder Room
Parution : 2014-12-14
Collection : Murder Room
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Télécharger le livre :  Midnight is a Place
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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....

Editeur : Hodder Children's Books
Parution : 2014-05-01

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Télécharger le livre :  The Shoemaker's Boy
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As Jem, the Shoemaker's boy, works at night in his father's shop he has three strange visitors asking for some silver keys. Jem must keep the silver keys safe, but how...?

Editeur : Wayland
Parution : 2012-02-23
Collection : Gripping Tales
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