Joan Aiken

Young Arabel's life is changed forever when her father, a taxi driver, brings home an injured bird he finds in the street. This wacky raven eats everything in sight, answers the telephone by squawking "Nevermore!", and causes chaos wherever he goes....

Included here are three BBC Radio full-cast dramatisations of the classic novels from Joan Aiken's 'Wolves Chronicles', a sequence of novels set in an alternate 19th-century England ruled by Stuart kings....

Wicked wolves and a grim governess threaten Bonnie and her cousin Sylvia when Bonnie's parents leave Willoughby Chase for a sea voyage....

Here are eight gloriously imaginative stories for eight satisfying sessions of bedtime listening. There's a flying apple pie....

Young Arabel's life is changed forever when her father, a taxi driver, brings home an injured bird he finds in the street....

In this silly sequel to Arabel's Raven, when they take a cruise, Mortimer floats out to sea on a grand piano....

Aiken makes use of the hallmark of Gothic fiction—the haunted house—in this story of three authors whose lives become inextricably tied to Lamb House....

In 'The Mystery of Mr Jones’s Disappearing Taxi', someone has been driving Mr Jones’s taxi, and books have been mysteriously vanishing from the local library....

A beautiful Cornish coastal village is the setting for a highly sinister conspiracy involving a kidnapped baby, mysterious monks and an almost irresistible new perfume....

Everybody in the elves’ village was in a terrible state of worry and confusion, dashing hither and thither. And all because the King of the Elves had lost his crown....

A truly creepy band of ghosts has been conjured up in this unusual and compelling collection of tales. In New York, Zia Tisna’s weird dolls keep watch over a pair of young lovers....

We are taken to peculiar lands where all the magical things that only seem to happen in dreams really do happen....

Ein Rätsel aus der Vergangenheit wird Meggie zum Verhängnis...

All these delightful stories are concerned with sleeping and waking, dreams, and night time....

These 11 stories include, amongst others, a terrifying Nordic curse and a country garden inhabited by a deadly ghost....

Snow-covered fields and moors stretch away on all sides of Herondale House. Despite rumours of an escaped killer on the run, Deborah Lindsay knows that she must control her fear - she has a young charge to care for....

From 'A Necklace of Raindrops' to 'The Patchwork Quilt', here are eight classic stories to treasure and enjoy....