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Joan Aiken was born in Sussex in 1924. She was the daughter of the American poet, Conrad Aiken; her sister, Jane Aiken Hodge, is also a novelist. Before joining the 'family business' herself, Joan had a variety of jobs, including working for the BBC, the United Nations Information Centre and then as features editor for a short story magazine. Her first children's novel, The Kingdom of the Cave, was published in 1960.
Joan Aiken wrote over a hundred books for young readers and adults and is recognized as one of the classic authors of the twentieth century. Amanda Craig, writing in The Times, said, 'She was a consummate story-teller, one that each generation discovers anew.' Her best-known books are those in the James III saga, of which The Wolves of Willoughby Chase was the first title, published in l962 and awarded the Lewis Carroll prize. Both that and Black Hearts in Battersea have been filmed. Her books are internationally acclaimed and she received the Edgar Allan Poe Award in the United States as well as the Guardian Award for Fiction in this country for The Whispering Mountain.
Joan Aiken was decorated with an MBE for her services to children's books. She died in 2004.
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Joan Aiken wrote over a hundred books for young readers and adults and is recognized as one of the classic authors of the twentieth century. Amanda Craig, writing in The Times, said, 'She was a consummate story-teller, one that each generation discovers anew.' Her best-known books are those in the James III saga, of which The Wolves of Willoughby Chase was the first title, published in l962 and awarded the Lewis Carroll prize. Both that and Black Hearts in Battersea have been filmed. Her books are internationally acclaimed and she received the Edgar Allan Poe Award in the United States as well as the Guardian Award for Fiction in this country for The Whispering Mountain.
Joan Aiken was decorated with an MBE for her services to children's books. She died in 2004.
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 the crew are summoned to the aid of the tyrannical queen of New Cumbria. Her island is an infernal place where birds carry off men and fish eat human flesh. The queen is greatly distressed because a neighbouring king has stolen her lake. Dido faces fire, flood, wild beasts and, ultimately, threat of execution to get the lake back. Is she equal to the challenge?
A rich mixture of legend, fantasy, humour and pure snowballing adventure.
'Joan Aiken is a natural storyteller with the gift of endless and usually comic invention'. John Rowe Townsend, Guardian.
'The Stolen Lake is zanier and more devilishly fiendish than ever'. New York Times.
A rich mixture of legend, fantasy, humour and pure snowballing adventure.
'Joan Aiken is a natural storyteller with the gift of endless and usually comic invention'. John Rowe Townsend, Guardian.
'The Stolen Lake is zanier and more devilishly fiendish than ever'. New York Times.
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- ÉditeurJonathan Cape Ltd
- Date d'édition1981
- ISBN 10 0224019244
- ISBN 13 9780224019248
- ReliureRelié
- Numéro d'édition1
- Nombre de pages272
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The Stolen Lake
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Jonathan Cape, London
(1981)
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Description du livre Hard Cover. Etat : F. Etat de la jaquette : F-. Pat Marriott (illustrateur). First Edition. F/F-. 8vo. original blue boards gilt in dustwrapper with publisher's price label £5.50 (spine a trifle sunned); pp. 272, with illustrations. A fine copy. The fifth of the Wolves Chronicles, in both chronological and publication order. N° de réf. du vendeur 027405
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Description du livre Etat : Good. Etat de la jaquette : dw. Marriott, Pat (illustrateur). 1st. Ex-library. Dark blue cloth-covered boards. Gilt lettering on spine. Light wear to dustwrapper. Tape marks on front endpaper and edge of front cover, where library protector removed. Front endpaper removed. Close to VG in other respects. N° de réf. du vendeur 116283
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Description du livre Hardback. Etat : Near Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Near Fine. Illustrated by Pat Marriott (illustrateur). First Edition; First Printing. 1st edition hbk in d/w; lovely condition book with an attractive wrap around dustwrapper; no handwriting inside such as names; d/w not price clipped; tiny bit of crinkling to top of spine d/w; ; Nightbirds on Nantucket; 8vo 8" - 9" tall. N° de réf. du vendeur 103041
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