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Eva Ibbotson
A beautiful, classic romance set on the eve of war in Europe, from the award-winning and best-loved Eva Ibbotson.
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A classic post-war romance novel, from the award-winning and best-loved Eva Ibbotson.
A Christmas edition of the award-winning Eva Ibbotson’s historical short story collection, A Glove Shop in Vienna.
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A witty and rich classic novel of love, war and belonging from the award-winning and best-loved Eva Ibbotson.
A delicious collection of romantic, atmospheric and witty stories.
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A beautiful edition celebrating the 20th anniversary of this gorgeous award-winning classic adventure from Eva Ibbotson, with an introduction by Emma Carroll. Cover art by Katie Hickey.
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A beautiful lush jacketed hardback gift edition celebrating the 20th anniversary of this gorgeous award-winning classic adventure from Eva Ibbotson. Illustrated in full colour throughout by the fabulous Katie Hickey.
Celebrating the 25th anniversary of Eva Ibbotson’s funny, fantastical, magical story of mistaken identity, with a special edition, fully illustrated by Beatriz Castro.
Johanna Spyri
Little Heidi goes to live with her grandfather in his lonely hut high in the Alps and she quickly learns to love her new life. But her strict aunt decides…
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When Agatha Farlingham is kidnapped by a yeti in Tibet she soon discovers that the hairy monster is clever and noble. A rollicking adventure from one of Britain’s most beloved…
After the Russian revolution, Russian countess Anna flees to England and takes a job as servant in the household of the Westerholme family. Desperate to keep her past a secret…
In this award-winning novel, set in pre-World War I Vienna, a young servant girl learns that she is actually an aristocrat whose true home is an ancient castle. There, Annika…
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The bestselling author of Which Witch? returns with a nefarious, hilarious story of ghosts in peril–especially Humphrey the Horrible, a small, mostly unsuccessful ghost in a family of ghastly ghouls…
When handsome Arriman the Awful announces a contest to choose his bride, every witch in town is a flutter because only the meanest witch in town will wed Arriman. Belladonna…
Combine a quintet of homesick Scottish ghosts, a Texas millionaire and his sickly daughter, the impoverished last scion of the Clan MacBluff, and a trio of fascistically inclined malefactors, and…
A forgotten door on an abandoned railway platform is the entrance to a magical kingdom and is only accessible for nine days every nine years. When the prince is captured…
Two enchanting stories from one of the world’s best-loved children’s writers. One follows a young explorer and her adventures with a yeti in the Himalayan mountains; another sees a dog-crazy…
A beautiful new look edition of this enthralling and enchanting adventure set in turn-of-the-century Vienna. From the author of the best-selling Journey To The River Sea.
A new cover edition of the wonderful, romantic adventure, from the bestselling, multi-award-winning author of Journey To The River Sea.
A delightful adventure story from the brilliant Eva Ibbotson, award-winning author of Journey to the River Sea.
How can Alex stop the ghosts living in the castle from haunting Hiram?
A new cover edition of Eva Ibbotson’s wonderfully spooky young fiction title.
A forgotten door on an abandoned railway platform is the entrance to a magical kingdom–an island where humans live happily with mermaids, ogres, and other wonderful creatures–and is only accessible…
Heckie, a graduate of one of the best witch schools, settles in the town of Wellbridge, determined to find evildoers and turn them into animals. But Heckie’s do-gooding lands her…
Madensky Square is Eva Ibbotson’s magical novel set in that most poignant of all times and places - Vienna before the First World War.
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Now in paperback–Ibbotson’s hair-raising novel introduces orphaned Maia, sent from England to Brazil in the early 1900s to live with unfamiliar cousins on a rubber plantation. Illustrations.
Sibeal Pounder,Eva Ibbotson
First published in the United Kingdom by Macmillan Children’s Books, an imprint of Pan Macmillan, 2019.
Set against the backdrop of gathering war, A Song for Summer is an unforgettable love story from master storyteller Eva Ibbotson.
An enchanting love story set in the Amazon, by the award-winning and bestselling author of Journey to the River Sea, Eva Ibbotson, with new introduction by Joanna Nadin.
Kidnapped by three kind but eccentric women who live on an uncharted island, Minette and Fabio realize that they actually prefer their new lives and enjoy participating in the elderly…
A funny, fantastical collection of cautionary tales from the mind-bogglingly brilliant and bestselling Eva Ibbotson.
A rich and witty classic novel of love, community and home from the award-winning and best-loved Eva Ibbotson, introduced by Laura Wood.
Jean Webster
A trustee of the John Grier orphanage has offered to send Judy Abbott to college. The only requirements are that she must write to him every month and that she…
All Hal had ever wanted was a dog. But a dog would damage the carpets in Hal’s house, and so his parents refused to let him have one. Then they…
A beautiful, classic story of romance, intrigue and opera, by the award-winning Eva Ibbotson, with new introduction from Harriet Evans.
A truly captivating spooky adventure from the outstanding Eva Ibbotson, bestselling author of Journey to the River Sea.
A wonderfully spooky title for younger readers from the award-winning author of Journey to the River Sea, Eva Ibbotson, with beautiful cover illustration by Alex T. Smith, creator of the…
A wonderfully spooky young fiction title from award-winning author of Journey to the River Sea, Eva Ibbotson.
A wonderfully spooky young-fiction title for younger readers from the award-winning author of Journey to the River Sea, Eva Ibbotson.
A beautiful edition of the much-loved and award-winning adventure story by Eva Ibbotson with a foreword by Lauren St John.
A wonderfully spooky title for younger readers from the award-winning author of Journey to the River Sea, Eva Ibbotson.
Anna Gmeyner
A newly translated 1938 German novel about five children conceived on the same night in 1920. Set in the turbulent Germany of the Weimar Republic, it describes the lives of…
Christmas stories from bestselling author Eva Ibbotson.
