Tales of London Town
Joan Aiken
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From the publisher
“These stories are delightful, funny, delicate ... perfect for any child with a taste for fantasy.”
New Statesman
“There is no better storyteller than Joan Aiken. Her imagination is so endlessly fertile that she can afford to pour her ideas into short stories that would bankrupt other writers in a matter of weeks.”
The Guardian
“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