Joan Aiken

Joan Aiken (Joan Delano Aiken)

(1924 - 2004)

Joan Aiken was a prolific author of both children's books, mysteries and Gothic and Romantic Suspense novels.

Books

Her non-series novels include the following:

• More Than You Bargained for (1955)
• The Kingdom and the Cave (1960)
• The Silence of Herondale (1964)
• The Fortune Hunters (1965)
• Trouble with Product X (1966)
• The Cockatrice Boys (1966)
• Beware of the Bouquet (1966)
• The Ribs of Death (1967)
• Hate Begins at Home (1967)
• Dark Interval (1967)
• Armitage Armitage Fly Away Home (1968)
• The Crystal Crow (1968)
• Night Fall (1969)
• The Embroidered Sunset (1970)
• A Cluster of Separate Sparks (other title The Butterfly Picnic)(1972)
• Died on a Rainy Sunday (1972)
• Voices in an Empty House (1975)
• Castle Barebane (1976)
• Last Movement (1976)
• The Five-Minute Marriage (1977)
• Mice and Mendelson (1978)
• The Smile of the Stranger (1978)
• Come Flee with Me (1978)
• The Shadow Guests (1980)
• The Weeping Ash (1980)
• The Lightning Tree (1980)
• The Young Lady from Paris (other title Girl from Paris) (1982)
• Foul Matter (1983)
• The Kitchen Warriors (1983)
• Mansfield Revisited (1984)
• If I Were You (1987)
• Deception (1987)
• The Erl King's Daughter (1988)
• Voices (1988)
• Blackground (1989)
• Return to Harken House (1990)
• Jane Fairfax (1990)
• The Shoemaker's Boy (1991)
• Morningquest (1992)
• The Midnight Moropus (1993)
• Eliza's Daughter (1994)
• A Handful of Gold (1995)
• Emma Watson (1996)
• The Youngest Miss Ward (1998)
• Lady Catherine's Necklace (2000)
• Song of Mat and Ben (2001)
• Bone and Dream (2002)

On the Web

• "Joan Aiken page on Fantasy Fiction" - Short Biography on Joan Aiken
• "Joan Aiken wiki" - Joan Aiken wiki article.