Joan Delano Aiken, 1924 in Rye, England geboren, war eine der bekanntesten britischen Schriftstellerinnen.Sie arbeitete erst für die BBC, dann für das St. Thomas Hospital und im Londoner Büro für die Vereinten Nationen. 1963 veröffentlichte sie den Erfolgsroman «Wölfe ums Schloss», für den sie mit dem Lewis Carrol Shelf Award geehrt wurde. Sie verfasste u.a. drei Jane Austen Folgeromane und erhielt zahlreiche Auszeichnungen für ihre Werke. Joan Aiken ist vor allem für ihre spannenden Fantasy- und Kriminalromane bekannt.2004 verstarb sie im Alter von 79 Jahren in Sussex.
101 Электронные книги Joan Aiken
Carol Emshwiller & Joan Aiken: Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet No. 27
As is traditional in the world of zines, we apologize for the lateness of the current issue to appear. This, er, tradition goes back to Bob, the first caveman. Damn his late eyes. Also, we introduce …
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Joan Aiken: The People in the Castle
Praise for Joan Aiken’s stories: ‘Wildly inventive, darkly lyrical, and always surprising . . . should be cherished.’—Publishers Weekly ‘Darkly whimsical stories. . . . Aiken writes with surpassing s …
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Joan Aiken: The Monkey’s Wedding
Praise for Joan Aiken:’Joan Aiken’s invention seemed inexhaustible, her high spirits a blessing, her sheer storytelling zest a phenomenon. She was a literary treasure, and her books will continue to …
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Joan Aiken: The Serial Garden
‘In a singularly important publishing even, the first complete collection of Aiken’s 24 beloved Armitage cycle of stories appears here for the first time. The family who dwells in and out of magical …
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Joan Aiken: Serial Garden
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 fr …
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Joan Aiken: Arabel’s Raven
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 squawkin …
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Joan Aiken: The Shoemaker’s Boy
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…? …
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Joan Aiken: Mansfield Park Revisited
In Aiken’s sequel to Jane Austen’s complex and fascinating novel, after heroine Fanny Price marries Edmund Bertram, they depart for the Caribbean, and Fanny’s younger sister Susan moves to Mansfield …
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Joan Aiken: Dido And Pa
Dido Twite is waylaid by her father, the shady Abednego Twite, acting on instructions from his evil patron. Why is Dido so urgently needed in Wapping? Why are King Richard’s friends all accidentally …
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Joan Aiken: Silence of Herondale
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 Review Snow-covered fields …
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Joan Aiken: Fortune Hunters
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 Review Annette, an increasingly amnesiac …
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Joan Aiken: Trouble With Product X
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 th …
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Joan Aiken: Hate Begins at Home
‘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. …
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Joan Aiken: Ribs of Death
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 un …
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Joan Aiken: Died on a Rainy Sunday
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 Review Married to an ambitious but feckless architect …
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Joan Aiken: Whispering Mountain (Prequel to the Wolves Chronicles series)
Prize winning WOLVES CHRONICLES PREQUEL reissued in A Puffin Book — All 12 Wolves books now in print for the first time ever.In THE WHISPERING MOUNTAIN by Joan Aiken, the small town of Pennygaff, the …
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Joan Aiken: Shadow Guests
After the mysterious disappearance of his mother and older brother, Cosmo is sent away to live with his father’s eccentric cousin, and to a strange school where he is lost and lonely among his unfrie …
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Joan Aiken: Arabel and Mortimer Stories
Arabel and her notorious raven Mortimer make a welcome return to Puffin Books!When Arabel’s father, Ebenezer Jones, drives his taxi home late one night he comes across ‘a large black bird, with a hai …
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Joan Aiken: Stolen Lake
In this fantasy adventure, a young girl visits a land where birds carry off men, fish eat human flesh, and she must rescue a pilfered lake. Readers who have followed Dido Twite’s escapades in B …
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Joan Aiken: Cuckoo Tree
Dido Twite uncovers a devious plot against the king in this classic children’s adventure set in an alternate Victorian England.Dido Twite, a roving ambassador to the King of England, is on her way ho …
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Joan Aiken: Black Hearts in Battersea
In this hilarious classic adventure, an innocent boy and his friends must stop a plot to topple the King of England. Simon, the foundling from The Wolves of Willoughby Chase, arrives in London to mee …
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Joan Aiken: Nightbirds on Nantucket
Having had enough of life on board the ship that saved her from a watery grave, Dido Twite wants nothing more than to sail home to England. Instead, Captain Casket’s ship lands in Nantucket, where Di …
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Joan Aiken: Arabel and Mortimer
In this silly sequel to Arabel’s Raven, Mortimer floats out to sea on a grand piano, tries to get even with three giraffes that have stolen his doughnuts at the zoo, and takes off with King Arthur’s …
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Joan Aiken: Midnight Is a Place
The author of The Wolves of Willoughby Chase presents a darkly humorous adventure starring two troubled orphans in a weird and wild world. Lucas Bell is lonely and miserable at Midnight Court, a vast …
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Joan Aiken: Midwinter Nightingale
King Richard, son of James III lies gravely ill and there are rumours that the king’s enemy, the Duchess of Burgundy, is preparing an imminent invasion. The ancient crown of Alfred must be found so K …
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Joan Aiken: Witch of Clatteringshaws
It s a rotten old job being King! says Dido Twite. Her friend King Simon agrees his scheming courtiers want to marry him off to a pushy princess, and he has to lead his army against a tribe of invadi …
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Joan Aiken: Black Hearts in Battersea
"Simon paid off the driver and turned to follow Mrs Twite. But she seemed to have locked the door behind her and, as he rattled the latch unavailingly and then rapped the locker, something dark …
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Joan Aiken: Cuckoo Tree
While her friend Capt Hughes recovers from a carriage accident, Dido is marooned with the odd inhabitants of the Tegleaze estate. Soon suspicious things happen; a priceless possession is stolen, a bo …
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Joan Aiken: Night Birds On Nantucket
Shipwrecked Dido Twite, picked up by a whaling ship, finds herself many miles from home and facing deep troubles. Sinister Miss Slighcarp, the governess from Willoughby Chase, makes a reappearance, t …
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Joan Aiken: Limbo Lodge
Dido Twite is aboard the Thrush, trying to return to England after her adventures in America. But orders have been sent to find Lord Herodsfoot, said to be on Aratu, the Pacific ‘Island of the Pearl …
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Joan Aiken: Is
Dido’s sister, Is, travels north to try and find her lost cousin. But instead of the promised Playland, she discovers an underground kingdom where children work as slaves in the worst conditions imag …
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Joan Aiken: Cold Shoulder Road
Arun returns to his mother’s house on Cold Shoulder Road, only to find it deserted and flood-ravaged. Some say she’s run off with a Silent Sect, other whisper that she’s a witch, and Mrs Boles mutter …
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Joan Aiken: Wolves Of Willoughby Chase
1832 — a period of English History that never happened. Good King James III is on the throne and the country is ravaged by wolves which have migrated through the newly-opened Channel Tunnel. When Syl …
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Joan Aiken: Stolen Lake
Dido Twite, heroine of Black Hearts in Battersea and Nightbirds on Nantucket, is on her wildest adventure yet. On her way back to London aboard the Thrush, Dido and crew are summoned to the aid of th …
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Joan Aiken: Go Saddle The Sea
Despised by his Spanish relatives and ignored by his distant grandfather, twelve-year-old orphan Felix Brooke is lonely and unhappy. So when he’s given a parcel with a blood-stained letter from his d …
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Joan Aiken: Teeth of the Gale
"Don Francisco wants you home, and in double-quick time, too. We must leave tomorrow at dawn . . ."Felix’s heart sinks at Pedro’s words. What can be wrong? Is his beloved grandfather ill? D …
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Joan Aiken: Bridle The Wind
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 whe …
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Joan Aiken: Song Of Mat And Ben
There is eerie trouble once again in the Cornish village of St Boan, often known as Thunder’s Pocket. Some hundred-year-old water pipes are being replaced and the digging has disturbed the ghosts of …
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Joan Aiken: Lady Catherine’s Necklace
Joan Aiken picks up the pen of her forerunner, Jane Austen, in this charming sequel to Pride and Prejudice.Elizabeth Bennet and Mr Darcy have finally found matrimonial bliss, and now our attention tu …
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Joan Aiken: Mansfield Revisited
After the sad demise of Sir Thomas, Edmund Bertram and his new wife Fanny must sail to the West Indies in order to oversee the family s affairs.Back at Mansfield Park, Fanny s younger sister Susan is …
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Joan Aiken: Eliza’s Daughter
Seduced and abandoned by the faithless Willoughby, Colonel Brandon s much-loved ward Eliza is sent to give birth in the countryside. But what becomes of her, and her daughter, the young Eliza?Joan Ai …
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Joan Aiken: Jane Fairfax
A favourite game of the rich and beautiful Emma Woodhouse is dabbling in the marriage market, where she plays with everyone s hearts except her own.But, for Jane Fairfax, the other heroine of Jane Au …
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Joan Aiken: In Thunder’s Pocket
When Ned is sent to stay with his aunt and uncle in Thunder’s Pocket, he’s not very pleased. But from the moment a bird flies into the train carriage on his journey there, Ned realises this isn’t goi …
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Joan Aiken: Bone And Dream : A St. Boan Mystery
In this third St Boan mystery, Ned is summoned once again by his Aunt Lal to help the famous but cantankerous poet, Sir Thomas Menhenitt. In confronting the poet’s problems, Ned rescues Sir Tom’s gra …
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Joan Aiken: Wolves of Willoughby Chase
Can you go a little faster? Can you run?Long ago, at a time in history that never happened, England was overrun with wolves. But as Bonnie and her cousin Sylvia discover, real danger often lies close …
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Joan Aiken: Black Hearts in Battersea
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 disappearan …
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Joan Aiken: Is Underground
The children of London are disappearing—can Is solve the mystery before she vanishes too? Is Twite, younger sister of the daring Dido, is on a desperate mission. An uncle she never knew just sh …
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Joan Aiken: Cold Shoulder Road
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 …
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Joan Aiken: Dangerous Games
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, rovi …
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Joan Aiken: Erl King’s Daughter
Kimballs Green Junior School’s newest student is more than a little strange—in fact, she might be the feared daughter of the Erl King! Kevin loves sharing the stories his grandmother used …
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Joan Aiken: Last Slice of Rainbow
The 9 stories in this collection explore the magic and mystery of strange lands populated not just by ordinary boys and girls but also by elves, fairies, kelpies, and a queen with screaming hair! In …
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Joan Aiken: Fog Hounds, Wind Cat, Sea Mice
A trio of fantasy and adventure tales by the award-winning author of the beloved Wolves Chronicles In “Fog Hounds, ” Tad and his sister, Ermina, know better than to venture outside a …
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Joan Aiken: Jewel Seed
An English orphan unwittingly holds the key to a powerful source of magic The graduation ceremony of the Grand and Ancient College of Siberian Witches takes place in the winter darkness of the Far No …
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Joan Aiken: Kitchen Warriors
A secret village of elves living in the cupboard must fend off vacuum witches and deep-freeze trolls in the battles of the kitchen wars The people who live in the house have no idea that an entire vi …
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Joan Aiken: Mice & Mendelson
The hilarious adventures of an elderly pony named Mr. Mendelson and his 2 piano-playing field mice friends In a wild, remote place called Midnight Park, there lives an elderly Orkney pony named …
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Joan Aiken: Midnight Moropus
Can Jon find a ghostly horse that’s been extinct for centuries? Jon is a lonely orphan who lives on a farm with his adopted parents. When they ask what he’d like for his birthday, Jon kno …
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Joan Aiken: Scream
When Davey and his sister are orphaned, their grandmother comes from a remote island to look after them—bringing macabre powers and dark secrets When Davey and his family moved to the city from …
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Joan Aiken: Kingdom Under the Sea
A wonderful new reissued edition of the classic Joan Aiken short story collection illustrated with Jan Pienkowski’s iconic silhouettes. These East European fairytales have it all: drama, magic, heroe …
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Joan Aiken: More Arabel and Mortimer
Arabel and her notorious pet raven Mortimer make a welcome return to the Puffin nest.When Arabel’s father, Ebenezer Jones, drives his taxi home late one night he comes across ‘a large black bird, wit …
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Joan Aiken: Du bist Ich
Alvey Clement und Louisa Winship stammen zwar aus sehr unterschiedlichen Gesellschaftsschichten und sind vom Temperament her ganz verschieden, aber vom Aussehen her sind sie sich völlig gleich. Die v …
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Joan Aiken: Elizas Tochter
In ihrem weltberühmten Roman ›Gefühl und Verstand‹ berichtet Jane Austen von Eliza, Colonel Brandons Mündel, die etwa 1795 mit ihrem unehelichen Kind aufs Land geschickt wird. Dieses Ende war Joan Ai …
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Joan Aiken: Emma Watson
Emma Watson (Heldin von Jane Austens gleichnamigem unvollendeten Roman) ist mit neunzehn zu dem kränkelnden Vater und ihrer Lieblingsschwester Elizabeth zurückgekehrt. Bruder Robert wohnt mit seiner …
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Joan Aiken: Anderland
Pandoras Mutter sucht schon lange einen geeigneten Umgang für ihre künstlerisch begabte Tochter. Da kauft die Musikerfamilie Morningquest das Gut Anderland ganz in der Nähe, und von nun an verbringt …
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Joan Aiken: Fanny und Scylla
Die frisch vermählte, sechzehnjährige Fanny wird von ihrem Gatten erniedrigt und mißhandelt. Viele tausend Meilen entfernt, in Nordindien, fliehen zwei junge Menschen um ihr Leben, verfolgt von den K …
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Joan Aiken: Der Geist von Lamb House
ony Lamb und seine Familie waren im 18. Jahrhundert die ersten Bewohner von Lamb House im südostenglischen Rye. Dort hat sich eine unheimliche Geschichte zugetragen, die der verkrüppelte Toby, der ei …
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Joan Aiken: Angst und Bangen
Die Schauspielerin Cat bekommt eine Rolle in einer TV-Serie. Bei Außenaufnahmen auf einem Landsitz in Dorset lernt sie den Besitzer kennen. Die beiden verlieben sich, heiraten und machen eine Hochzei …
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Joan Aiken: Der letzte Satz
Als Kind hielt Priscilla die griechische Insel Dendros für das Paradies auf Erden. Nun kehrt sie mit ihrer verwitweten Mutter, die sich von einem schweren Unfall erholen muß, dorthin zurück. Auch Lad …
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Joan Aiken: Die Kristallkrähe
Kleine alltägliche Schrecknisse steigern sich in der ›Kristallkrähe‹ über große Verwirrungen zu einem finsteren Ende. Da ist die junge Schriftstellerin, die mit ihrer entsetzlich eifersüchtigen Freun …
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Joan Aiken: Schattengäste
In ›Schattengäste‹ erzählt Joan Aiken die Geschichte eines Jungen, der mit rätselhaften natürlichen und übernatürlichen Ereignissen konfrontiert wird. Manches wird auch uns schon begegnet sein, manch …
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Joan Aiken: Stimmen in einem leeren Haus
Der herzkranke Gabriel will nicht mehr leben und haut von zu Hause ab. Seine herrschsüchtige Mutter und sein Stiefvater machen sich aus unterschiedlichen Beweggründen auf die Suche nach ihm. Immerhin …
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Joan Aiken: Ärger mit Produkt X
Als Martha Gilroy den Auftrag bekam, eine Werbekampagne für ein aufregendes neues Parfüm zu starten, hatte sie keine Ahnung, worauf sie sich da einließ. Eine Reise nach Cornwall, wo sie einige Werbea …
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Joan Aiken: Haß beginnt daheim
Nach einem Nervenzusammenbruch ist Caroline zur Erholung bei ihrer Familie: der Mutter Lad, Trevis, der älteren Schwester Hilda und einer alten Tante. Doch statt zu genesen, wird sie immer verwirrter …
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Joan Aiken: Tote reden nicht vom Wetter
Jane, Graham und die beiden Kinder sind eine ganz normale Familie. Seit sie in das neue, teure Haus auf dem Land gezogen sind, hat Jane ihre Arbeit bei einer Londoner Filmfirma aufgegeben. Geldproble …
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Joan Aiken: Der eingerahmte Sonnenuntergang
Eine junge Frau reist nach England, um das Verschwinden der beiden alten Damen aufzuklären, die im High Beck Cottage am Rande des Moores lebten. Was als gewöhnliche Reise beginnt, entwickelt sich sch …
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Joan Aiken: Die Fünf-Minuten-Ehe
London, 1815. Als ihre Mutter ernstlich erkrankt, sieht Philadelphia Carteret keine andere Möglichkeit, als ihren wohlhabenden Großonkel Lord Bollington um Hilfe zu bitten. Doch schon kurz nach ihrer …
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Joan Aiken: Jane Fairfax
Gemäß Jane Austens Emma war Jane Fairfax musikalisch, vielseitig begabt und elegant. Aber wie verliefen ihre Jugendjahre als Waise, wie verlief ihre Kinderfreundschaft mit Emma Woodhouse, und – viel …
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Joan Aiken: Die Party-Köchin
Nach dreizehn Jahren quält die Chefin eines Party-Catering-Service, Clytie Churchill, immer noch die Frage, ob ihr Stiefsohn Finn bei einem Unglücksfall auf See wirklich mit ihrem Mann Daniel ums Leb …
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Joan Aiken: Der Schmuck der Lady Catherine
Auf Rosings Park lief immer alles so, wie es sich gehörte, und vor allem so, wie Lady Catherine es wollte. Doch plötzlich bringen ein Kutschenunfall und unerwarteter Besuch den gewohnten Lauf der Din …
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Joan Aiken: Das Mädchen aus Paris
Wohin sie geht, zieht Ellen Paget Liebhaber an: den ambivalenten Professor Bosschère in Brüssel, den unberechenbar-eigenwilligen Comte de la Ferté in Paris, ihren Stiefbruder Bénédict. Ellen wird nac …
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Joan Aiken: Die jüngste Miss Ward
Auf herrschaftlichen Anwesen wie Mansfield Park ließen sich Gefühl und Verstand nicht so leicht vereinbaren. Erst Hatty Ward, die Joan Aiken hinzuerfunden hat, durchbricht die Konventionen. Sie verfü …
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Joan Aiken & Babette Maeder: Prinz Koriander und die Trolle aus der Tiefkühltruhe
In Elfendorf, das ganz versteckt im Geschirrschrank hinter der Zuckerdose und den Suppenschüsseln liegt, herrscht große Aufregung: König Korodil hat wieder einmal seine Krone verloren, und alle Elfen …
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Joan Aiken: Wölfe ums Schloss
Als ihre Eltern eine lange Seereise antreten, bleibt Bonnie gemeinsam mit ihrer Cousine Sylvia auf Willoughby Chase zurück. Es ist der härteste Winter seit Jahren, Schneestürme toben, nachts heulen d …
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Joan Aiken: Night Fall
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 …
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Joan Aiken: Mitternacht ist ein Ort
Von seinem Fenster im düsteren Schloß Mitternacht beobachtet Lucas Bell, Ziehkind des Besitzers Sir Randolph, wie eine Reisekutsche einen geheimnisvollen Neuankömmling bringt. Endlich ein Freund für …
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Joan Aiken: Wie es mir einfällt
Riesenfalter und dreieckige Risse in einem grünen Himmel… ein unsichtbarer Tempeltiger, der Menschen verspeist… ein verkannter Schriftsteller, der noch aus dem Jenseits eigene Publicity betreibt… Ein …
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Joan Aiken: Return to Harken House
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 Austria …
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Joan Aiken: Cockatrice Boys
"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 …
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Joan Aiken: Scream
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 Da …
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Joan Aiken: Haunting of Lamb House
"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 wr …
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Joan Aiken: Fantastic Fables
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 …
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Joan Aiken: Siren Stories
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 …
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Joan Aiken: Weather Witches and Wise Women
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, J …
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Joan Aiken: Ghostly Gallery
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 Aike …
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Joan Aiken: Gift Giving: Favourite Stories
‘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 write …
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Joan Aiken & Stefon Mears: Year of the Cat: A Cat of Artistic Sensibilities
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