BookShared
  • MEMBER AREA    
  • Tales of London Town

    (By Joan Aiken)

    Book Cover Watermark PDF Icon Read Ebook
    ×
    Size 24 MB (24,083 KB)
    Format PDF
    Downloaded 626 times
    Last checked 11 Hour ago!
    Author Joan Aiken
    “Book Descriptions: 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”

    Google Drive Logo DRIVE
    Book 1

    Appointment with Venus

    ★★★★★

    Jerrard Tickell

    Book 1

    The House in Cornwall

    ★★★★★

    Noel Streatfeild

    Book 1

    The Christmas Bookshop (The Christmas Bookshop, #1)

    ★★★★★

    Jenny Colgan

    Book 1

    The Librarianist

    ★★★★★

    Patrick deWitt

    Book 1

    Welcome to the Hyunam-Dong Bookshop

    ★★★★★

    Hwang Bo-Reum

    Book 1

    A Clergyman's Daughter

    ★★★★★

    George Orwell

    Book 1

    Ripley's Game (Ripley, #3)

    ★★★★★

    Patricia Highsmith

    Book 1

    Chronicle of a Death Foretold

    ★★★★★

    Gabriel García Márquez

    Book 1

    The Samurai's Garden

    ★★★★★

    Gail Tsukiyama

    Book 1

    The Matchmaker's Gift

    ★★★★★

    Lynda Cohen Loigman

    Book 1

    The Swimmers

    ★★★★★

    Julie Otsuka

    Book 1

    Letter from New York: BBC Woman's Hour Broadcasts

    ★★★★★

    Helene Hanff

    Book 1

    The Phone Booth at the Edge of the World

    ★★★★★

    Laura Imai Messina

    Book 1

    A Month in the Country

    ★★★★★

    J.L. Carr

    Book 1

    84, Charing Cross Road

    ★★★★★

    Helene Hanff

    Book 1

    Between the Acts

    ★★★★★

    Virginia Woolf