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.

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)