Reprint (Gollancz 1972 as The Butterfly Picnic) thriller. |
Young-adult fantasy novel. The world is invaded by strange monsters, and it’s up to the boys of the Cockatrice Corp to bring a trainful of food to beseiged Manchester. |
Young adult alternate world historical fantasy novel: Is Twite and her cousin Arun return from the north to find the countryside terrorised by the Merrie Gentry. Volume nine in the series. |
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Young-adult collection of 11 ghost/horror stories, six original. |
Reprint (Gollancz 1967 as The Ribs of Death) mystery novel. |
Young adult alternate world historical fantasy novel: Dido Twite arrives back in England eager to find her friend Simon. Volume six in the series. |
Young adult alternate world historical fantasy novel: Dido Twite goes to a remote island in search of a gamemaster to amuse the ailing King James III. Volume five in the series. |
Reprint (Gollancz 1967 as Hate Begins at Home) gothic suspense novel. |
Collection of three stories taken from A Creepy Company. |
Nineteenth-century romance about two identical but unrelated schoolfriends finishing their eduction at the Abbey school, Reading, which Jane Austen attended with her sister Cassandra. |
Young adult alternate world historical fantasy novel: Dido reunites with Simon only to find he is now Duke of Battersea and in danger. Volume seven in the series. |
Thriller involving a young working mother, her feckless husband and two small children, and a sinister childminder. |
Chapbook young-adult story in the Armitage family series, with an introduction by Lizza Aiken, published as a promotion for the 10/08 collection The Serial Garden: The Complete Armitage Family Stories; this chapbook is also available online as a downloadable pdf. |
Historical novel; a sequel to Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility. Details taken from online listing. |
Thriller about a young American pianist who is sent to England to locate a great aunt and her collection of embroidered pictures. |
Historical novel; a completion of Jane Austen’s The Watsons. |
Young-adult novelette about a spooky girl, with dark powers, turns up at a London school. |
Novelette in the “Arabel and Mortimer” series, originally read on Jackanory by Bernard Cribbins from 15th to 19th May 1972. |
Collection of 12 young-adult fantasy stories, most original. |
Collection of 15 mystery and suspense stories, most first published in Argosy (UK). |
Original young-adult collection of ten stories of the “mysterious, macabre and paranormal”. |
Omnibus of A Fit of Shivers (Aiken, Gollancz, 1990) and In Black and White (In Black and White and Other Stories) (Mark, Viking, 1991). Exclusively produced for School Book Fairs. |
Regency romance about an arranged marriage that becomes an increasingly dangerous charade. |
Collection of three juvenile tales of magic and the supernatural. |
Collection of eight stories by Aiken written around fantastic paintings by Pienkowski. |
Gothic thriller featuring an amnesiac magazine editor who has inherited an unexpected fortune and falls prey to an odd series of characters when she leaves London to live in a cottage. |
Thriller featuring Tuesday from The Ribs of Death about an itinerant chef who is searching for her husband’s missing child. Volume two in the series. |
Collection of 23 stories selected from previous Aiken collections. |
Reprint (Gollancz 1982 as The Young Lady from Paris) Gothic Regency romance. |
Young-adult collection; 13 tales of the supernatural. |
Young-adult historical novel set in early-19th century Spain. Volume one in the series. |
Reprint (Cape 1995) young-adult collection of 15 stories selected from previous Aiken collections. |
Young-adult collection of 14 stories. |
Gothic suspense novel about the trio of deaths at the ancient manor of Woodhoe House. |
Ghost story of a haunted English mansion that tells the story of three inhabitants, including writers Henry James and E.F. Benson. |
An original folk tale about a kind-hearted girl published as part of the “Oxford Literacy Web” series as an extension-level reading resource designed for Stage 9 readers. |
Reprint (Gollancz 1987 as Deception) mystery novel. |
In the Cornish village known as “Thunder’s Pocket”, Ned Thorne finds a magic key and becomes involved in a local curse. Volume one in the series. |
Young adult alternate world historical fantasy novel: Is Twite, Dido’s younger sister, travels to London to discover why half the city’s children have disappeared. Volume eight in the series. |
Young adult alternate world historical fantasy omnibus, the seventh and eighth books in the “Alternate England” series. |
Reprint (Cape 1992 as Is) young-adult fantasy novel, seventh book of the “Alternate England” series. |
Historical novel; a retelling of Jane Austen’s Emma from the point of view of Emma’s rival, Jane Fairfax. |
Young-adult fantasy novel about the battle between good and evil searching for the Jewel Seed which can regenerate life…or bring about Fimbulwinter. |
Children’s novel, written when Aiken was 17, about Prince Michael of Astalon and Mickle, the Palace Cat. |
Juvenile fantasy collection (retelling Eastern European tales), heavily illustrated by Jan Pienkowski. |
Collection of five young-adult short stories, later read on Jackanory by Robert Lindsay from 5th to 9th March 1984. |
Historical novel; a tongue-in-cheek sequel to Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice featuring Lady Catherine de Bourgh. |
Thriller set on a Greek island, in an extraordinary spa run by Dr. Adnan, who also appeared in The Embroidered Sunset. |
Collection of nine magical and whimsical fairy tales. Details taken from online listing. |
Reprint (Doubleday 1980 as Weeping Ash) Gothic Regency romance. |
Reprint (Delacorte 1999 as Dangerous Games) young adult fantasy novel. This ninth-published of the series takes place between The Stolen Lake and The Cuckoo Tree. |
Historical novel; a sequel to Jane Austen’s Mansfield Park in which Fanny’s younger sister replaces her, and goes to live as Lady Bertram’s companion at Mansfield Park. |
Original collection of two “Arabel and Mortimer” stories. |
Original collection of stories written for a series shown on Thames Television in 1977. |
Young adult novel set in an alternate-world 19th century Britain. |
Children’s book about a lonely orphan named Jon who rides his pony Whiskers out at midnight to find and help set free the ghost of a prehistoric Moropus. |
Young adult alternate world historical fantasy novel: Dido Twite returns to England just in time to help Simon and the dying King Richard. Volume 10 in a new series. |
Collection of 19 stories, seven original, most from the 1950s and ’60s. This has a 1995 introduction by the author and a new introduction by her daughter Lizza Aiken. |
Collection of 14 young-adult fantasy stories, all but one original. Details taken from online listing. |
First separate publication of a play for children, first published in Winterthing, and the Mooncusser’s Daughter (Cape, 1973), illustrated by Arvis Stewart and with music by John Sebastian Brown. |
Young-adult fantasy story about Sep, seventh son of a seventh son, heavily illustrated by Alan Lee. |
Collection of seven “Arabel and Mortimer” stories, previously collected in Mortimer’s Cross (Cape, 1983) and Mortimer Says Nothing (Cape, 1985). |
Collection of 14 fantasy stories for children, mainly original. Details taken from online listing. |
Family saga about Pamela Crumbe who is taken under the wing of the eccentric Morningquest family. |
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Novelette in the “Arabel and Mortimer” series, originally read on Jackanory by Bernard Cribbins on the 25th & 26th January 1979. |
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Reprint (BBC 1974 as The Bread Bin) novelette in the “Arabel and Mortimer” series. |
First separate publication of a novelette in the “Arabel and Mortimer” series. |
Collection of three “Arabel and Mortimer” stories, two originally read on Jackanory by Bernard Cribbins, and previously published separately. |
Picture book, based on the second BBC puppet TV series Mortimer and Arabel, heavily illustrated with still photographs. |
Novelization of the second BBC puppet TV series Mortimer and Arabel. |
Picture book, based on the first BBC puppet TV series Mortimer and Arabel, heavily illustrated with still photographs. |
Novelette in the “Arabel and Mortimer” series, originally read on Jackanory by Bernard Cribbins on 1st & 2nd January 1981. Volume eight in the series. |
Novelette in the “Arabel and Mortimer” series, originally read on Jackanory by Bernard Cribbins from 13th to 17th September 1976. Volume four in the series. |
Novelette in the “Arabel and Mortimer” series, originally read on Jackanory by Bernard Cribbins from 29th to 31st December 1980. Volume seven in the series. |
Original collection of eight young-adult fantasy stories, heavily illustrated by Jan Pieńkowski. Details taken from online listing. |
Young adult alternate world historical fantasy novel: a shipwrecked Dido Twite is picked up by Captain Casket on his Nantucket Whaler and becomes embroiled in a sinister plot. Volume three in the series. |
Young-adult gothic mystery novel featuring a young English girl who, haunted by a recurrent nightmare, travels to Cornwall to trace the source of the dream. |
Collection of 21 stories taken from earlier collections. |
Original collection of eight bedtime stories written for Aiken’s first grandchild, heavily illustrated by Jan Pieńkowski. |
Collection of 20 strange stories. Introduction by Kelly Link. Foreword “The Power of Storytelling: Joan Aiken’s Strange Stories” by Lizza Aiken. Details taken from online listing. |
Reprint (Hippo 1988 as Voices) young adult gothic mystery novel of a young girl’s strange experiences in a mysterious house. |
Thriller set in a small Cornish village, narrated by a girl whose name is so improbable that her friends call her Tuesday. Volume one in the series. |
Young-adult fantasy novella about David’s grandmother whose presence sparks a series of sinister and tragic events. |