Joan Aiken Books In Order
Book links take you to Amazon. As an Amazon Associate I earn money from qualifying purchases.Publication Order of Arabel and Mortimer Books
Arabel's Raven | (1972) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Arabel, Mortimer, and the Escaped Black Mamba | (1973) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Mortimer's Bread Bin | (1974) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Mortimer's Tie | (1976) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Spiral Stair | (1979) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Mortimer and the Sword Excalibur | (1979) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Arabel and Mortimer | (1980) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Mortimer's Portrait on Glass | (1982) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Mystery of Mr. Jones's Disappearing Taxi | (1982) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Mortimer's Cross | (1983) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Mortimer Says Nothing | (1985) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Mortimer and Arabel | (1992) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Mortimer's Pocket | (1994) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Mortimer's Mine | (1995) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Mayhem in Rumbury | (1995) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Arabel and Mortimer Stories | (2019) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
More Arabel and Mortimer | (2019) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Armitage Family Books
Armitage, Armitage, Fly Away Home | (1968) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Serial Garden | (2008) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Felix Brooke Books
Go Saddle the Sea | (1977) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Bridle the Wind | (1979) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Teeth of the Gale | (1988) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Jane Austen Books
Mansfield Revisited | (1984) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Jane Fairfax | (1990) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Eliza's Daughter | (1994) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Emma Watson | (1996) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Youngest Miss Ward | (1998) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Lady Catherine's Necklace | (1999) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Paget Family Saga Books
The Smile of the Stranger | (1978) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Weeping Ash | (1980) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Girl from Paris | (1982) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Ribs of Death Books
Publication Order of St. Ives Books
In Thunder's Pocket | (2000) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Bone and Dream | (2002) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Song of Mat and Ben | (2014) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of The Wolves Chronicles Books
The Wolves of Willoughby Chase | (1962) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Black Hearts in Battersea | (1964) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Nightbirds on Nantucket | (1966) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Whispering Mountain | (1968) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Cuckoo Tree | (1971) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Stolen Lake | (1981) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Dido and Pa | (1986) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Is Underground | (1992) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Cold Shoulder Road | (1995) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Limbo Lodge / Dangerous Games | (1998) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Midwinter Nightingale | (2003) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Witch of Clatteringshaws | (2005) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Standalone Novels
The Angel Inn | (1863) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Kingdom and the Cave | (1960) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Silence of Herondale | (1964) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Fortune Hunters | (1965) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Beware of the Bouquet / Trouble with Product X | (1966) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Dark Interval / Hate Begins at Home | (1967) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Night Fall | (1969) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Embroidered Sunset | (1970) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
A Cluster of Separate Sparks / The Butterfly Picnic | (1972) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Died on a Rainy Sunday | (1972) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Midnight Is a Place | (1974) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Voices in an Empty House | (1975) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Castle Barebane | (1976) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Last Movement | (1977) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Five-Minute Marriage | (1977) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Mice and Mendelson | (1978) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Shadow Guests | (1980) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Kitchen Warriors | (1983) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Deception / If I Were You | (1987) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Erl King's Daughter | (1988) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Blackground | (1989) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Haunting of Lamb House | (1991) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Cockatrice Boys | (1993) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Midnight Moropus | (1993) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Morningquest | (1993) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Jewel Seed | (1996) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Short Stories/Novellas
Return to Harken House | (1988) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
A Fit of Shivers | (1990) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Shoemaker's Boy | (1991) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Scream | (2002) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Picture Books
The Moon's Revenge | (1987) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs | (2002) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Wooden Dragon | (2004) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Plays
Winterthing | (1972) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Mooncusser's Daughter | (1974) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Street | (1978) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Collections
All You've Ever Wanted | (1953) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
More Than You Bargained for | (1957) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Girl's Choice | (1965) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
A Necklace of Raindrops | (1968) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
A Small Pinch of Weather | (1969) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Windscreen Weepers | (1969) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Smoke from Cromwell's Time | (1970) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Kingdom Under the Sea | (1971) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Green Flash | (1971) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
A Harp of Fishbones | (1972) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Not What You Expected | (1974) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
All But a Few | (1974) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Faithless Lollybird | (1975) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Skin Spinners | (1976) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Far Forests | (1976) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
A Bundle of Nerves | (1976) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Tale of a One-Way Street | (1978) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
A Touch of Chill | (1979) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Whisper in the Night | (1983) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Up the Chimney Down | (1984) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Last Slice of Rainbow | (1985) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Past Eight O'Clock | (1986) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
A Goose on Your Grave | (1987) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Give Yourself a Fright | (1989) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
A Foot in the Grave | (1989) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
A Fit of Shivers | (1990) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
A Fit of Shivers / In Black and White | (1992) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Winter Sleepwalker | (1994) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
A Creepy Company | (1995) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
A Handful of Gold | (1995) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Dead Man's Lane | (1996) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Casting a Spell and Other Poems | (1996) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Moon Cake | (1998) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Shadows & Moonshine | (2001) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Ghostly Beasts | (2002) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Snow Horse | (2004) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Monkey's Wedding | (2011) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The People in the Castle | (2016) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Gift Giving | (2016) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books
Publication Order of Pan Book of Horror Stories Books
The Pan Book of Horror Stories | (1959) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Second Pan Book of Horror Stories | (1960) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Third Pan Book of Horror Stories | (1962) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Sixth Pan Book of Horror Stories | (1965) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The 7th Pan Book of Horror Stories | (1966) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Eighth Pan Book of Horror Stories | (1967) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Eleventh Pan Book of Horror Stories | (1970) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Twelfth Pan Book of Horror Stories | (1971) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The 13th Pan Book of Horror Stories | (1972) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The 16th Pan Book of Horror Stories | (1975) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The 19th Pan Book of Horror Stories | (1978) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The 20th Pan Book of Horror Stories | (1979) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The 21st Pan Book of Horror Stories | (1980) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
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Publication Order of The Year of the Cat Books
A Cat of a Different Color | (2020) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
A Cat of Perfect Taste | (2020) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
A Cat of Disdainful Looks | (2020) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
A Cat of Strange Lands | (2020) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
A Cat of Cozy Situations | (2020) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
A Cat of Heroic Heart | (2020) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
A Cat of Artistic Sensibilities | (2021) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
A Cat of Fantastic Whims | (2021) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
A Cat of Feral Instincts | (2021) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet Books
Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet No. 12 | (2003) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet No. 13 | (2003) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet No. 14 | (2003) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet No. 15 | (2005) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet No. 16 | (2005) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet No. 17 | (2005) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet No. 18 | (2006) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet No. 19 | (2006) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet No. 20 | (2007) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet No. 21 | (2007) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet No. 22 | (2008) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet No. 23 | (2008) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet No. 24 | (2009) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet No. 25 | (2009) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet, No.26 December 2010 | (2010) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet No. 27 | (2011) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet No. 28 | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet No. 29 | (2013) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet No. 30 | (2013) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet No. 31 | (2014) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet No. 33 | (2015) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet No. 34 | (2016) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet No. 36 | (2017) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet No. 37 | (2018) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet No. 38 | (2018) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet No. 42 | (2020) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet No. 45 | (2022) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet No. 43 | (2023) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Anthologies
The Tenth Pan Book of Horror Stories | (1969) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The 5th Armada Ghost Book | (1973) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Baker's Dozen of Stories for Young People | (1974) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Ladies of Fantasy: Two Centuries of Sinister Stories by the Gentle Sex | (1975) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Bumper Book of Ghost Stories | (1976) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Ghosts That Haunt You | (1980) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Faber Book of Modern Fairy Tales | (1981) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Black Eyes and Other Spine Chillers | (1981) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
65 Great Spine Chillers | (1982) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Over the Rainbow | (1983) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Penguin Book of Ghost Stories | (1984) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Supernatural Stories: 13 Tales of the Unexpected | (1987) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
First Annual Collection | (1988) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Second Annual Collection | (1989) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Third Annual Collection | (1989) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Year's Best Fantasy 2 / Demons and Dreams | (1990) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Drabble II: Double Century | (1990) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Silver Jackanory | (1991) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Chilling Christmas Tales | (1992) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Oxford Book of Modern Fairy Tales | (1993) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Haunting Christmas Tales | (1993) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Fantasy Stories | (1994) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
What's for Dinner?: And Other Stories | (1994) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Penguin Book of Modern Fantasy by Women | (1995) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
A Treasury of Ghost Stories | (1996) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Simply the Best | (1996) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Mystery Stories | (1996) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Where the Red Fern Grows and Related Readings | (1997) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Secret City | (1997) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Puffin Book of Stories for Eight-Year-Olds | (1999) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
A Treasury of Five-Minute Stories | (2000) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Writer's Guide to Fantasy Literature | (2002) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Dancing with the Dark | (2009) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Psychos | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Best New Horror 23 | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Lobster's Birthday and Other Stories | (2014) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Joan Aiken
Joan Aiken was born in Mermaid Street on September 4, 1924 in Rye, Sussex. Her dad was Conrad Aiken, an American Pulitzer Prize winning poet. Her sister was Jane Aiken Hodge, a writer, and her brother was a writer and research chemist, named John Aiken. Their mom, Jessie MacDonald, was a Master’s graduate from Radcliffe College, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Their marriage dissolved in 1929, and Jessie remarried to Martin Armstrong, an English writer in the year 1930, while Conrad married twice more. Joan, along with John and Jane, wrote Conrad Aiken Remembered, a short appreciation of their dad.
Joan was taught at home by her mom until she was twelve from 1936 until 1940 at Wychwood School for girls in North Oxford. She never attended university. Writing stories from a young age, she finished her first full length novel when she was only sixteen years old and she had her first short story for adults accepted for publication at the age of seventeen. In the year 1941, her first children’s story was broadcasted on the BBC’s Children’s Hour.
Aiken worked from 1943 to 1949 for the United Nations Information Centre in London. She married Ronald George Brown (a journalist that was also working at UNIC), in September 1945. They had two kids together before his passing in the year 1955.
After Joan’s husband died, she joined the magazine Argosy, where she worked in different editorial capacities and learned her trade as a writer. The magazine was one of the many in which she published her short fiction between 1955 and 1960. During this time she published her first two collections of children’s stories and started writing a children’s novel, which was initially called “Bonnie Green”, and was titled “The Wolves of Willoughby Chase” when it was published in 1962.
By this time she was able to work full time as a writer at home, producing two or three books each year for the rest of her life, primarily thrillers and children’s books, as well as many articles, talks and introductions on children’s literature and on Jane Austen’s works.
She participated in the Puffin Book Club’s annual Children’s Literature Summer Camp, which was run by Colony Holidays, the predecessor to ATE Superweeks, along with other such popular kid’s authors like Clive King and Ian Serraillier.
She married Julius Goldstein, a New York landscape painter and teacher. They divided their time between New York and her home, the Hermitage in Petworth, Sussex. He passed away in the year 2001.
In September of 1999, she was made a Member of the Order of the British Empire.
She died at her home at the age of 79 on January 4, 2004 in Petworth, Sussex. She was survived by her two kids.
Joan lived in a world filled with stories, and her greatest delight was sharing them.
“The Wolves of Willoughby Chase” is the first novel in “The Wolves of Willoughby Chase” series and was released in 1962. Wicked wolves and one grim governess threaten Bonnie and Sylvia (her cousin) when Bonnie’s parents depart Willoughby Chase for their sea voyage.
Left in cruel Miss Slighcarp’s care, the girls can barely believe what is happening to their formerly happy home. The servants get dismissed, the furniture gets sold off, and Sylvia and Bonnie get shipped off to a prison-like orphan school. It appears as if the endless hours of drudgery are never going to end.
With help from Simon the gooseboy and his flock, they are able to escape. However how are they every going to get Willoughby Chase free from the evil Miss Slighcarp’s clutches?
“The Midnight Moropus” is a stand alone novel and was released in 1993. Can Jon locate a ghostly horse that has been extinct for centuries now?
Jon is a lonely orphan that lives on a farm with his adopted parents. When they ask him what he would like for his birthday, he knows immediately: to see the Moropus, which is this prehistoric horse which is furry and big, with claws on its feet instead of hooves. According to the legend, it haunts all the lonely moors at a waterfall which is known as Horse Force since its gushing cascade sounds exactly like the whinny of a mare.
However there is a problem: should Jon wish to see the ghost of this legendary creature, he must visit Horse Force exactly at the stroke of midnight. By himself. Can he strike up enough courage to go there all by himself during the dead of night? Luckily there is a friend that can help him out: Whiskers, his faithful pony!
“The Jewel Seed” is a stand alone novel and was released in 1997. One English orphan unwittingly holds the key to this powerful source of magic.
The graduation ceremony of the Grand and Ancient College of Siberian Witches is held in the wintry darkness of the Far North. However despite such a celebration, the night is filled with worry and warnings. The Wanderer is abroad searching for the coveted Jewel Seed which has been lost for centuries now. Whoever is able to find it first is going to have unlimited power and be able to unlock all knowledge.
At the same time, Nonnie Smith, an orphan, leaves the home that she shares with her grown siblings and grandma in Sesame Green to live in London with her oldest sister Una and her cousins. Her issues start when her old neighbor Mrs. Wednesday comes back from the Siberian witch conference and learns that somebody has taken a mysterious shirt off her clothesline. Nonnie’s certain that the linen blouse belonged to Una, however why is Mrs. Wednesday so very desperate to lay hands on it?
Then Una gets kidnapped, along with famous historical characters like Mozart, Julius Caesar, and Jane Austen. And it’s up to Nonnie and cousin John to outfox Mrs. Wednesday and the Winter People in order to save her.
“The Jewel Seed” is Joan Aiken’s retelling of a tale that her dad used to tell her and her siblings when they were young.
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