Read Night Birds On Nantucket Online
Authors: Joan Aiken
Dear whale of Nantucket, so pink and so round,
The pride of our island, the pearl of the Sound,
By Providence blest to our shores you were led,
Long, long may you gambol off Sankaty Head!
JOAN AIKEN
comes from a family of writers; daughter of the American poet, Conrad Aiken, her sister Jane also writes novels.
Joan Aiken has written over a hundred books for young readers and adults.
Her best-known books are those in the James III saga of which the classic
The Wolves of Willoughby Chase
was the first title, published in 1962 and awarded the Lewis Carroll prize. Both that and
Black Hearts in Battersea
have been filmed. Her books are internationally acclaimed and she has received the Edgar Allan Poe Award in the United States as well as the Guardian Award for Fiction in this country for
The Whispering Mountain
. More recently she has been decorated with the MBE for her services to children's books.
She has children and grandchildren and lives in Sussex.
The Wolves of Willoughby Chase sequence:
The Wolves of Willoughby Chase
Black Hearts in Battersea
Night Birds on Nantucket
The Stolen Lake
Limbo Lodge
The Cuckoo Tree
Dido and Pa
Is
Cold Shoulder Road
Midwinter Nightingale
The Witch of Clatteringshaws
(in preparation)
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The Felix trilogy:
Go Saddle the Sea
Bridle the Wind
The Teeth of the Gale
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The Whispering Mountain
(winner of the Guardian Award 1969)
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Short Story Collections:
A Handful of Gold
Ghostly Beasts
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Young Fiction:
The St. Boan Trilogy
In Thunder's Pocket
The Song of Mat and Ben
Bone and Dream
NIGHT BIRDS ON NANTUCKET
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First Published in Great Britain
Red Fox 9780099456643 1966
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