The Witch of Clatteringshaws

10 best books like The Witch of Clatteringshaws (Joan Aiken): New Cthulhu: The Recent Weird, To Be Taught, If Fortunate, The Animals of Farthing Wood, When Did You Last See Your Father?, The Vicarage Murder, Biggles Adventure Double: Biggles Learns to Fly & Biggles the Camels are Coming: WWI Omnibus Edition, The Private Life of Elder Things, Tragedy at Piddleton Hotel, The Lords of Creation, Dark Tales

AuthorPaula Guran
ISBN1607012898
For more than eighty years H.P. Lovecraft has inspired writers of supernatural fiction, artists, musicians, filmmakers, and gamers. His themes of cosmic indifference, the utter insignificance of humankind, minds invaded by the alien, and the horrors of history—written with a pervasive atmosphere...
To Be Taught, If Fortunate
AuthorBecky Chambers
ISBN0062936018
In her new novella, Sunday Times best-selling author Becky Chambers imagines a future in which, instead of terraforming planets to sustain human life, explorers of the solar system instead transform themselves.

Ariadne is one such explorer. As an astronaut on an extrasolar research vessel,...
AuthorColin Dann
ISBN1405225521
A group of forest animals unite to help each other to safety in this classic tale of tolerance, cooperation, survival, and friendship. When bulldozers enter Farthing Wood, the animals must escape before their homes are destroyed. They promise to stick together and protect each other—but then they...
When Did You Last See Your Father?
AuthorJodi Taylor
'Max, your father is here. He's come to take Matthew away'

Have you ever wondered what would happen if Max's husband met Max's father? What would Leon do?

They're normally a fairly amiable bunch, but this is the story of what to expect if St Mary's doesn't like someone. As in, really doesn't...
The Vicarage Murder
AuthorJoyce Cato
Meet Monica Noble: the vicar’s wife with a taste for solving crimes.

IN A QUIET COTSWOLD VILLAGE ALL HELL IS ABOUT TO BREAK LOOSE

Monica Noble is throwing a party to welcome the village’s new residents. The guests include Margaret and her cheating husband Sean. Also on the list...
Biggles Adventure Double: Biggles Learns to Fly & Biggles the Camels are Coming: WWI Omnibus Edition
AuthorW.E. Johns
BIGGLES LEARNS TO FLY
Age just seventeen and with almost no flying experience, James Bigglesworth is sent to tackle the enemy in the hostile skies over First World War France. In a drama of war, where instinct and fast reactions are everything, Biggles must learn to be a real fighter pilot, or die....
The Private Life of Elder Things
AuthorAdrian Tchaikovsky
ISBN1911034022
From the wastes of the sea to the shadows of our own cities, we are not alone. But what happens where the human world touches the domain of races ancient and alien? Museum curators, surveyors, police officers, archaeologists, mathematicians; from derelict buildings to country houses to the London...
Tragedy at Piddleton Hotel
AuthorEmily Organ
*** Shortlisted for Amazon UK's Kindle Storyteller Award 2019 ***

Armed with a handbag and fuelled by cake, Annabel Churchill is a mature yet tenacious private detective. Together with her quirky sidekick, Doris Pemberley, she's determined to solve mysteries and chase down criminals in...
The Lords of Creation
AuthorPhilip E. High
Gathered together for the first time are seven strange stories of the future from the wondrous imagination of Philip E. High

Man was bringing life to the planets: a carefully balanced programme of flora and fauna, but that life had to come from Earth, pre-adapted to survive and flourish. Man...
Dark Tales
AuthorShirley Jackson
ISBN0241295424
The perfect read for Hallowe'en, this new hardback volume of Jackson's finest stories reveals the queen of American gothic at her unsettling, mesmerising best

There's something nasty in suburbia. In these deliciously dark tales, the daily commute turns into a nightmarish game of hide and...
Mr Finchley Discovers His England
AuthorVictor Canning
ISBN0330233963
3+ Stars. "What is a holiday without change and excitement?" Ask Edgar Finchley, Esquire. MR. FINCHLEY DISCOVERS HIS ENGLAND was Victor Canning's first novel and a runaway best seller in 1934; and now, his novels are being re-released. This one, first in a trilogy is old-fashioned and silly....yes,...
The Mortal Word
AuthorGenevieve Cogman
A corrupt countess
A spy in danger
And an assassin at large

The fifth title in Genevieve Cogman's witty and wonderful Invisible Library series, The Mortal Word is a rollicking literary adventure.

Peace talks are always tricky, especially when a key diplomat gets stabbed....
Christmas Present
AuthorJodi Taylor
It's Christmas Eve at St Mary's, And all through the house, Nothing is stirring ... Except for Max, Peterson, and Markham, sneaking out at midnight for an assignment that is very definitely off the books. It's ten years ago tonight that Senior Historians Bashford and Grey went missing in twelfth-century...
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