Joan Aiken

Simon has come to London to study painting with Dr Field, but Dr Field has disappeared. As Simon tries to find him he discovers a fiendish plot.

Actress Cat Conwil is swept off her feet by a mysterious media mogul and they are soon honeymooning in Venice. It’s not long before Cat realises how little she really knows about her new husband and she starts to suspect that several unexplained accidents were actually attempts on her life.

Packed off to boarding school and bullied by his peers, Felix Brooke feels sad and trapped. Although he has a home in England, his heart lies in Spain, so he runs away, but is shipwrecked off the French coast.

Eleven stories to chill the blood, although no blood is spilt.

Tired of living in Spain with his grandfather and unfriendly great-aunt, Felix gets on his mule one day and sets out to find a place which he thinks is called Bath.

A fantastic collection of short stories to enjoy.

When Ned is sent to stay with his aunt and uncle in Thunder's Pocket he discovers many strange things happening! Has Malot really put a curse on Ned's aunt, and will Ned be able to lift it?

Eight stories of wonderful people and events, in which we meet a tiger who can run faster than the wind, a cat the size of a whale and a little girl with a magic necklace of raindrops.

Although she is desperate to return to England, Dido Twite is caught in Nantucket where she and Penitence Casket have to stay with creepy Aunt Tribulation.

David’s grandmother has moved to the city and her dark powers have come with her. Soon David and his sister realise that having their grandmother living with them is very dangerous…

A collection of twelve magical short stories.

More adventures of Dido Twite as she travels from Nantucket to London.

In the small town of Pennygaff, the legendary Harp of Teirtu is found - and lost again. For young Owen Hughes and his friend Arabis, it is the start of a race to save the harp from sinister Lord Malyn. They are plunged into a wild adventure involving murder, kidnapping, savage beasts, the mysterious children of the Pit - and above all, a man who will stop at nothing to get the harp back again.

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 Sylvia and Bonnie (both orphans) fall into the hands of evil Miss Slighcarp, they must use all their wits to escape unscathed - for the governess is more cruel and merciless than the wolves that surround the great house of Willoughby Chase.

BC Radio full-cast dramatisations of three of the classic novels from Joan Aiken's 'Wolves Chronicles' One of the finest storytellers of her time, Joan Aiken wrote over 100 books for both adults and children. Among her best-known works are the 'Wolves Chronicles', a sequence of novels set in an alternate 19th century England ruled by Stuart kings. Included here are three tales from that magical, wolf-infested world - The Wolves of Willoughby Chase, Black Hearts in Battersea and The Story of Is. The Wolves of Willoughby Chase - Winter, 1832. The great manor of Willoughby Chase lies blanketed by snow, and predators lurk in the darkness. With the opening of the Channel Tunnel, ravenous wolves have overrun the country, and young Bonnie Green can hear their hideous howling. But she and her cousin Sylvia soon find themselves facing an even greater danger, in the shape of their devious governess, Miss Slighcarp. Aided by their friend Simon, can they foil her evil plan?

Black Hearts in Battersea - Determined to become a painter, Simon sets off to London - but no sooner has he arrived than he becomes caught up in a fiendish Hanoverian plot to overthrow the King. Kidnapped and sent away to sea, he faces shipwreck, assassination plots, attacks by wolves and a hair-raising hot air balloon escape. With the help of fellow orphan Sophie, and the resourceful Dido Twite, will he save the day? The Story of Is - Sent by King Richard IV to search for his missing son, Dido Twite's sister Isabett takes the Playland Express to the north of a divided England. There, she finds an underground city where children work as slaves in vast coal mines. This is the domain of Gold Kingy, a man who will stop at nothing in his pursuit of power - but he has reckoned without Is and her newfound friends... These spellbinding adventures feature a star cast, including Gosford Park's Emily Watson, Game of Thrones' Joe Dempsie and legendary actor and comedian Rik Mayall.