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Sharing all things Aiken...books, thoughts, memories... https://www.joanaiken.com/
A Wonderful potted biography of Joan Aiken from an interview forty years ago will make you feel as if you are sharing a cup of tea with her in her own kitchen, and hearing how she fought to save her most sensational children's novel...too many wolves? Never! booksforkeeps.co.uk/article/auth...
"For we must hear and bear the news from everywhere: the hourly news, infinitesimal or vast, from everywhere." Happy Birthday Conrad Aiken, who was here before us... joanaiken.wordpress.com/2026/08/05/h...
Happy Birthday Conrad Aiken…
A salutation on his birthday, August 5th, raising a glass to Conrad Aiken – I can imagine my Grandfather, prolific poet, novelist and writer of Everysingle Thing including letters, lyrics, li…
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It's never too late...the ever prescient Joan Aiken saw many of today's alarming developments a while back...a villain known as Gold Kingy for example... www.joanaiken.com/book_categor...
Welcome to the Wonderful World of Joan Aiken - Wolves Chronicles
Joan Aiken’s famous series of twelve nooks set in her own historical world. A time when ravening wolves have invaded England from the wilds of Europe through the newly opened Channel Tunnel, and trave...
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Gavin, Small Beer (closed due to long covid), &c.@gavingrant.bsky.social · 3mo agoAnother reason to love John Crowley (from 2013) Forget Harry Potter Adults Should Read Joan Aiken's Wolves in @bostonreview.bsky.social cc @lizzaaiken.bsky.social
Easter Eggs are everywhere just now, but can you spot this one? A funny fable from Joan Aiken & Jan Pienkowski in their 'A Necklace of Raindrops' - four friends searching for A Bed for the Night...classic storytelling, and Happy Ending guaranteed of course... joanaiken.wordpress.com/2026/04/02/a...
Formidable mothers make our lives the best they can be...what luck to be born to Joan Aiken and her own pioneering double graduate mother Jessie... Unforgettable lessons and love..
Joan Aiken's stories give a voice to unlikely heroines, women who use their words to pass on the wisdom that has ways to save us... #InternationalWomen'sDay joanaiken.wordpress.com/2023/11/10/g...
Giving a voice to women – Joan Aiken’s folk tales for the next generation.
From her very earliest stories, Joan Aiken gave a voice to women, and showed how, unexpectedly, in their own mysterious way, they held power. Old ladies, browbeaten wives, silent mothers, unhap…
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Need a little distraction? Tales of the Weird...Shapeshifter stories coming soon from @britishlibrary.bsky.social drawn from the wildest imaginations of writers from Mary Shelley to Joan Aiken...who comes up with the comforting idea tha Wolves make the Best Fathers...
The lovely @frankcottrellboyce.bsky.social picks a favourite for World Book Day...Joan Aiken & Jan Pienkowski created a lasting classic in The Kingdom Under the Sea...even when it's been loved to bits...🤩 www.joanaiken.com/book_categor...
Croopus, it's the first of March..time to celebrate Dido Twite day again! Have you met Joan Aiken's enduring heroine? If not read on and make a friend for life...always there when you need her. joanaiken.wordpress.com/2026/02/28/c...
Croopus…It’s another Happy Dido Twite Day!
Time to celebrate – it’s Dido Twite’s birthday, ‘fust o’ March’ – Joan Aiken’s heroine was given the same birthdate as her beloved mother Jessie̷…
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What is it with Joan Aiken and wolves...? Every good story has a wolf...
Dougal@doogface.bsky.social · 6mo agoLove the covers. Reminds me of the Joan Aiken books with the Jan Pieńkowski I read as a kid.
One of the greatest love stories, a pair who were destined to meet among spilt milk and trampled lettuce...it's Arabel 7 Mortimer of course, Joan Aiken's enduring pair... Read how they first met: joanaiken.wordpress.com/2026/02/13/a...
So sad to hear we have lost @neilphilipmyth.bsky.social an expert and champion of the world of children's lit. introducing myths and stories for all...His Joan Aiken Top Ten is a treasure - if you've never discovered her, start here:
LizzaAiken@lizzaaiken.bsky.social · 2y agoNext week will be Joan Aiken's Centenary, Born 4 Sept 1924 so it's time to celebrate her over 100 books too! Neil Philip, longtime Aiken fan chose his Top Ten favourites for BooksForKeeps, a lovely read - Click the link...do you agree? What's your favourite? booksforkeeps.co.uk/article/ten-...
More than ever we need stories to show us how things worked out before, what we can do about it, and how to share hope for the future...'Hold together for the future's sake...' joanaiken.wordpress.com/2026/01/27/j...
...the best in fact..! Joan Aiken was once celebrated as 'the greatest children's writer you have probably never read...' But it's not too late, and she wrote for adults too ..
Jeff Abbott@jeffabbott.bsky.social · 7mo agoanother Joan Aiken resource: www.joanaiken.com
England in the olden days...except it was all made up by Joan Aiken...
waltydunlop@waltydunlop.bsky.social · 7mo agoThis is a rather lovely little 18 minute profile of Joan Aiken, from 1969. Tony Bilbow reads, the rest is Joan and an awful lot of gorgeously shot location work. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ouGY...
In the USA? Want to get away for a while...? Wonderful escapism in Joan Aiken stories on sale this week... openroadmedia.com/ebook/the-la...
Stranger things we would welcome...and quieter times...a Joan Aiken world?
Simon Spanton@simonguy.bsky.social · 7mo ago"The boy never thought it strange that his father should be a rainstorm, his mother an apple tree; it was so; that was all; and he loved the tree quite as much as if she had been a person. I am the tree's son, he thought; I am the rain child; they are both looking after me."
Joan Aiken and Quentin Blake...Nevermore!
BlogMyWiki@blogmywiki.bsky.social · 7mo agoI now want a pet raven.
Time to take down the decorations, and put them out for the birds..? But the books go on nourishing the family, celebrate the Year of Reading with these delights from Joan Aiken... www.joanaiken.com/arabel-and-m...
Remembering Joan Aiken and the stories about her haunted house...some of them she wrote herself... joanaiken.wordpress.com/2026/01/03/r...
Remembering Joan Aiken – and her Haunted House.
Joan Aiken died on the fourth of January, in fact her favourite month, because she said it was the most hopeful time of all, with the whole new year lying ahead… she had firm opinions an…
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Joan Aiken. Sleep walking bears. A big "yes" from me.
LizzaAiken@lizzaaiken.bsky.social · 9mo agoThis beautiful centenary collection of Joan Aiken stories takes you to a world of Gods and monsters, brave girls and sleepwalking bears, best read aloud at bedtime... Illustrated by Quentin Blake it's a classic... www.joanaiken.com/books/the-wi...
Wishing for World peace...? As Joan Aiken said, we have to imagine things before they can happen...meanwhile here's a song from her to cheer the darker days and wish you all a Happy Solstice...🍃 joanaiken.wordpress.com/2025/12/22/m...
A Midwinter Solstice Song by Joan Aiken
It may be the darkest time of year, but let’s light the lights, and share good cheer! A Solstice Song from Joan Aiken’s Play Winterthing with music by her son John Sebastian Brown Man…
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Magic in your pocket...a Free Christmas Gift 🎄🎁🎉Read some of Joan Aiken's Wisest and Wittiest stories and an introduction about her extraordinary life 🎄🎁🎉 read.amazon.co.uk/sample/B0BW3...
Read a fantastic review of Joan Aiken's Austen Entertainments in the New York Times - a double celebration of two very entertaining authors... joanaiken.wordpress.com/2025/12/16/j...
Joan Aiken celebrates Jane Austen, writing the stories she never told…
Did you know Joan Aiken wrote Austen sequels? One of the greatest Jane Austen enthusiasts, she knew the books inside out and has written six wonderful novels of her own as a tribute to her ‘…
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Joan Aiken always celebrated the novels of Jane Austen, so would be cheering for this 250th Anniversary celebration! Aiken wrote a sequel to each Austen novel, and a happy ending for the unfinished Emma Watson. Find them all on the website, paperbacks and EBooks: www.joanaiken.com/book_categor...
Tales for winter nights...Joan Aiken's Wolves Chronicles... www.joanaiken.com/book_categor...
Welcome to the Wonderful World of Joan Aiken - Wolves Chronicles
Joan Aiken’s famous series of twelve nooks set in her own historical world. A time when ravening wolves have invaded England from the wilds of Europe through the newly opened Channel Tunnel, and trave...
joanaiken.com
Simon Spanton@simonguy.bsky.social · 8mo ago"- tilting, tilting now this way, now that...Or was he on the branch of a tree, back home in the forest of Willoughby? Was that sound not the howl of the sea but the howl of wolves? No, it was the sea, but Dido was talking about wolves in the forest; her words came dreamily...
This beautiful centenary collection of Joan Aiken stories takes you to a world of Gods and monsters, brave girls and sleepwalking bears, best read aloud at bedtime... Illustrated by Quentin Blake it's a classic... www.joanaiken.com/books/the-wi...
Huzzah, this is great timing...! A lovely #Thanksgiving for Joan Aiken and her wonderful Wolves Chronicles...no comeback necessary, they're all still running...! Come and find them on her website: www.joanaiken.com/book_categor...
Welcome to the Wonderful World of Joan Aiken - Wolves Chronicles
Joan Aiken’s famous series of twelve nooks set in her own historical world. A time when ravening wolves have invaded England from the wilds of Europe through the newly opened Channel Tunnel, and trave...
joanaiken.com
Helen Rosner@hels.bsky.social · 9mo agoYou know what’s ripe for a comeback is the Wolves of Willoughby Chase series by Joan Aiken. Smart & non-condescending YA, fantastical without being fantasy, dark and Dickensian as hell, extremely lefty and anticapitalist, a full dozen sequels, amazing Edward Gorey covers.
#Halloween week would have been the perfect time to celebrate Joan Aiken's Trickster hero - Mortimer the Raven, but then he only ever does what HE wants...and always gets away with it. But it's not too late to read all about him here: joanaiken.wordpress.com/2025/11/07/t...
