Tales of London Town (e-book) (used book) | Joan Aiken | bookbook.eu

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A brand new collection of Joan Aiken’s stories and novellas - each set in a magical “other” London.

We are thrilled to be publishing this beautiful book in September as the latest in the Manderley Press list - released to celebrate the centenary of the author’s birth.

“Splendid for reading aloud and will act as yeast to the imagination. The spark of original imagination leaps the gap between realism and fantasy in a manner familiar in the best science fiction.”
The Times Educational Supplement

This brand-new collection is introduced by the award-winning and best-selling author Kiran Millwood Hargrave, and illustrated by the renowned artist Annabel Pearl, both of whom are huge devotees of Aiken’s writing, and London Town too!

Tales of London Town takes us on an exhilarating journey through parts of the city we never knew existed, and lingers in Rumbury Town - an ancient and rather wild part of London, as imagined through each individual novella by master story-teller Joan Aiken.

Rumbury Town is “an ancient, dusty, twisty, cobbly, narrow-laned quarter of north London. It has a canal, a hill, several venerable rail stations, an overgrown cemetery, a stretch of marshland known as Rumbury Waste, rows of little shops selling very odd goods, and some extremely ancient houses.”

“Tales of London Town will carry you away a while and let you linger in unheard-of corners of London so immaculately conjured you could swear you’ve just not checked the tube map hard enough.”
Kiran Millwood Hargrave