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Top 10 Favourite Diana Wynne Jones : Howl's Moving Castle, Charmed Life, The Lives of Christopher Chant, Castle in the Air, House of Many Ways, Dark Lord of Derkholm, Fire and Hemlock, Dogsbody, Conrad's Fate, Year of the Griffin

Howl's Moving Castle
AuthorDiana Wynne Jones
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Sophie has the great misfortune of being the eldest of three daughters, destined to fail miserably should she ever leave home to seek her fate. But when she unwittingly attracts the ire of the Witch of the Waste, Sophie finds herself under a...
Charmed Life
AuthorDiana Wynne Jones
I've just finished reading this to my daughter Celyn (11, too disabled to read for herself).

It's a fun story of Cat and his witchy sister Gwendolin living in a world that's almost ours but where witches and wizards exist and are well-known.

Like an enormous wedge of literature it's...
The Lives of Christopher Chant
AuthorDiana Wynne Jones
ISBN0688163653
His father and uncles are enchanters, his mother a powerful sorceress, yet nothing seems magical about Christopher Chant except his dreams. Night after night, he climbs through the formless Place Between and visits marvelous lands he calls the Almost Anywheres. Then Christopher discovers that...
Castle in the Air
AuthorDiana Wynne Jones
ISBN0064473457
In which a humble young carpet merchant wins, then loses, the princess of his dreams

Far to the south of the land of Ingary, in the Sultanates of Rashpuht, there lived in the city of Zanzib a young and not very prosperous carpet dealer named Abdullah who loved to spend his time daydreaming. He was...
House of Many Ways
AuthorDiana Wynne Jones
ISBN0061477958
Charmain Baker is in over her head. Looking after Great-Uncle William's tiny cottage while he's ill should have been easy. But Great-Uncle William is better known as the Royal Wizard Norland, and his house bends space and time. Its single door leads to any number of places—the bedrooms, the kitchen,...
Dark Lord of Derkholm
AuthorDiana Wynne Jones
ISBN0575075368
Everyone - wizards, soldiers, farmers, elves, dragons, kings and queens alike - is fed up with Mr Chesney's Pilgrim Parties: groups of tourists from the world next door who descend en masse every year to take the Grand Tour. What they expect are all the trappings of a grand fantasy adventure, including...
Fire and Hemlock
AuthorDiana Wynne Jones
ISBN0060298855
Polly has two sets of memories...

One is normal: school, home, friends. The other, stranger memories begin nine years ago, when she was ten and gate-crashed an odd funeral in the mansion near her grandmother's house. Polly's just beginning to recall the sometimes marvelous, sometimes frightening...
Dogsbody
AuthorDiana Wynne Jones
ISBN0064410382
The Dog Star, Sirius, is tried for murder by his heavenly peers and found guilty. His sentence: to be reborn on Earth as a dog until such time as he carries out the seemingly impossible mission imposed on him.In his Earth guise, Sirius, renamed Leo, truly lives a dog's life. Although he is the pet of a girl...
Conrad's Fate
AuthorDiana Wynne Jones
ISBN0060747455
Someone at Stallery Mansion is changing the world. At first, only small details, but the changes get bigger and bigger. It's up to Conrad, a twelve-year-old with terrible karma who's just joined the mansion's staff, to find out who is behind it.

But he's not the only one snooping around. His...
Year of the Griffin
AuthorDiana Wynne Jones
ISBN0575075376
It is eight years after the tours from offworld have stopped. High Chancellor Querida has retired, leaving Wizard Corkoran in charge of the Wizards' University. Although Wizard Corkoran's obsession is to be the first man on the moon, and most of his time is devoted to this project, he decides he will...
Deep Secret
AuthorDiana Wynne Jones
ISBN0765342472
Rupert Venables is a Magid.

It's a Magid's job to oversee what goes on in the vast Multiverse. Actually, Rupert is really only a junior Magid. But he's got a king-sized problem. Rupert's territory includes Earth and the Empire of Korfyros. When his mentor dies Rupert must find a replacement....
Archer's Goon
AuthorDiana Wynne Jones
ISBN0060298898
The trouble started when Howard Sykes came home from school and found the "goon" sitting in the kitchen. He said he'd been sent by Archer. But who was Archer? It had to do with the 2,000 words that Howard's author father had failed to deliver.

It soon became clear not only that Archer wanted those...
Hexwood
AuthorDiana Wynne Jones
ISBN0064473554
When Controller Borasus receives a strange letter from Earth he is both curious and alarmed. Someone has activated an ancient machine and is using it for most trivial purposes. Surely no one would dare to tamper with Reigner seals in this way? Yet the effects of such interference resonate throughout...
The Pinhoe Egg
AuthorDiana Wynne Jones
ISBN0061131245
Cat Chant and Marianne Pinhoe have discovered something exciting--something truly precious, very strange, and valuable. An egg.

An egg that has been hidden away in an attic for who-knows-how-many years. An egg protected by some strong "Don't Notice" spells. An egg that Marianne gives to...
Enchanted Glass
AuthorDiana Wynne Jones
ISBN0007320787
One thing I've always liked about Diana Wynne Jones' books for children is that she makes no artificial barrier between adults and children; they're all people. So rather than have the grownups dismiss or disbelieve the children's real concerns for no apparent reason other than that they're grownups,...
Eight Days of Luke
AuthorDiana Wynne Jones
ISBN0064473570
There seemed nothing strange about Luke to begin with, except perhaps the snakes. If they were snakes - David wasn't sure. He was just grateful for a companion as agreeable as Luke, who seemed able to twist anyone round his finger, even David's odious relatives. "Just kindle a flame and I'll be with you,"...
Cart and Cwidder
AuthorDiana Wynne Jones
ISBN0064473139
For centuries, Dalemark has been a land divided by the warring earldoms of the North and South. Now, with the help of the Undying, the mysterious gods of Dalemark, four extraordinary young people -- from the past, present, and future -- must join forces to reunify their beloved land. When Moril inherits...
The Homeward Bounders
AuthorDiana Wynne Jones
ISBN0749702818
"You are now a discard. We have no further use for you in play. You are free to walk the Bounds, but it will be against the rules for you to enter play in any world. If you succeed in returning Home, then you may enter play again in the normal manner."

When Jamie unwittingly discovers the sinister,...
Drowned Ammet
AuthorDiana Wynne Jones
ISBN0064473147
Diana Wynne Jones doesn't make the worldbuilding too easy to follow. I remember reading in her collected non-fiction writings that she found that children made the leaps her books require much more easily than adults do. So I try to think like a child when I read her work (it sort of pleases me, the way people...
The Crown of Dalemark
AuthorDiana Wynne Jones
ISBN0064473163

This is a long ‘un, folks.

Let me begin this with a confession: I am rating this book more by nostalgia than truth. It’s a horrible choice, I know. It inflates the rating and gives first-time readers a false impression. But, frankly my dears, I don’t give a damn.

I read the Dalemark...
Power of Three
AuthorDiana Wynne Jones
ISBN0064473597
Ayna could predict the future.
Cari could find what was lost.
Gair thought he was ordinary. The three children of Gest, the chief of Garholt, know the perils of the Moor on which they live. The Dorig, their people's enemies, are cold-blooded, fierce underwater creatures who terrify anyone...
The Spellcoats
AuthorDiana Wynne Jones
ISBN0064473155
The Spellcoats is one of the first books I ever read by Diana Wynne Jones and is still one of my favorites. With her tenth published novel, she demonstrates a maturity that marks the rest of her career; as good as her previous works are, with The Spellcoats she plays with first person limited POV and the clash...
The Game
AuthorDiana Wynne Jones
ISBN0142407186
Hayley’s parents disappeared when she was a baby. Since then, she has been raised and homeschooled by her grandparents. Grandad is overworked and travels a lot; Grandma is much too strict and never lets her meet any children her own age. When Hayley does something wrong—she is not quite sure what—they...
The Ogre Downstairs
AuthorDiana Wynne Jones
ISBN0007154690
Diana Wynne Jones at her finest – family feuds and chaos, magic with hilarious results and some of the most original ideas ever to appear between the covers of a book.


Casper, Johnny and Gwinny get a big shock when their mother marries the Ogre. The Ogre is large and stern and not at all interested...
Black Maria
AuthorDiana Wynne Jones
ISBN0006755283
A magical classic novel from the Godmother of British fantasy, Diana Wynne Jones.



On the surface, Great Aunt Maria seems like a harmless old lady.


But when Mig and her family go to visit, they soon learn that Aunt Maria rules Cranbury-on-Sea with a rod of sweetness that’s...
A Sudden Wild Magic
AuthorDiana Wynne Jones
ISBN0380718510
Our world has long been protected by "The Ring" - a benevolent secret society of witches and conjurers dedicated to the continuance and well-being of humankind. Now, in the face of impending climatic disaster, the Ring has uncovered a conspiracy potentially more destructive than any it has ever had...
Unexpected Magic: Collected Stories
AuthorDiana Wynne Jones
ISBN0060555351
Master storyteller Diana Wynne Jones presents a riveting collection of unpredictable tales, including:

* A cat tells how the kindhearted wizard she owns is suddenly called upon to defeat a horrific Beast.

* When Anne has mumps, her drawings come to life, and she must protect her home...
The Islands of Chaldea
AuthorDiana Wynne Jones
ISBN0007542232
Aileen was supposed to grow up magical – just like the other women in her family. Unfortunately, she’s just found out that the magic seems to have skipped a generation… but that’s not her biggest problem right now.

In her world, there are four Islands of Chaldea. The largest and most...
Wild Robert
AuthorDiana Wynne Jones
ISBN0006755240
Heather finds the mound when she tries to escape the hordes of tourists who invade the stately home where she lives. 'Wild Robert, I wish you were really under there!' she cries. 'You could come out and deal with the tourists!' All of a sudden, there is a smell like earth and strange spices. A voice says,...
Minor Arcana
AuthorDiana Wynne Jones
ISBN0575063254
It's been a while since I've read something I haven't read before from Diana Wynne Jones. For many years I searched libraries and managed to read all of her books except Changeover and... this one. All of the stories in this were reprinted in the anthology Unexpected Magic: Collected Stories except the...
Earwig and the Witch
AuthorDiana Wynne Jones
ISBN0007416857
Most orphanages are horrible, but Earwig has a surprising amount of power over everyone at St Morwald’s Home for Children, and loves it there. The last thing she wants is to be adopted by the very strange Bella Yaga, demon-attended Mandrake, and talking black cat Thomas. Earwig wants to learn magic,...
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