LizzaAiken
@lizzaaiken.bsky.social
Sharing all things Aiken...books, thoughts, memories...
https://www.joanaiken.com/
https://www.joanaiken.com/
#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...
But it's not too late to read all about him here:
joanaiken.wordpress.com/2025/11/07/t...
November 7, 2025 at 3:13 PM
#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...
But it's not too late to read all about him here:
joanaiken.wordpress.com/2025/11/07/t...
Joan Aiken adored ghost stories, and wrote this one aged five: 'Demens were said to come forth (from the haunted couch!) and waill and scream all night...'
Read some of her tips here on how to write a really creepy story:
joanaiken.wordpress.com/2025/10/31/a...
Read some of her tips here on how to write a really creepy story:
joanaiken.wordpress.com/2025/10/31/a...
October 31, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Joan Aiken adored ghost stories, and wrote this one aged five: 'Demens were said to come forth (from the haunted couch!) and waill and scream all night...'
Read some of her tips here on how to write a really creepy story:
joanaiken.wordpress.com/2025/10/31/a...
Read some of her tips here on how to write a really creepy story:
joanaiken.wordpress.com/2025/10/31/a...
Oh for the good old days of Nuisance Callers... the world is a much more terrifying place now, but Joan Aiken's Arabel could probably handle it...after all she lived with Mortimer...
joanaiken.wordpress.com/2021/06/10/a...
joanaiken.wordpress.com/2021/06/10/a...
October 22, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Oh for the good old days of Nuisance Callers... the world is a much more terrifying place now, but Joan Aiken's Arabel could probably handle it...after all she lived with Mortimer...
joanaiken.wordpress.com/2021/06/10/a...
joanaiken.wordpress.com/2021/06/10/a...
Joan Aiken was famous for haunting stories...and inspired some fantastic book covers...
www.joanaiken.com/books/the-gr...
www.joanaiken.com/books/the-gr...
October 3, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Joan Aiken was famous for haunting stories...and inspired some fantastic book covers...
www.joanaiken.com/books/the-gr...
www.joanaiken.com/books/the-gr...
I can't believe it's been a year since this came out... @manderleypress.bsky.social glorious Joan Aiken collection now seen in all the best bookshops... funny, scary AND with literary references!!! Tales of london Town
www.joanaiken.com/books/tales-...
www.joanaiken.com/books/tales-...
September 25, 2025 at 4:03 PM
I can't believe it's been a year since this came out... @manderleypress.bsky.social glorious Joan Aiken collection now seen in all the best bookshops... funny, scary AND with literary references!!! Tales of london Town
www.joanaiken.com/books/tales-...
www.joanaiken.com/books/tales-...
Joan Aiken in fantasy land, spent her 101 Birthday yesterday having all sites hacked, so don't believe any strange messages...except this one of course...
@gavingrant.bsky.social 🖤
@gavingrant.bsky.social 🖤
September 6, 2025 at 11:43 AM
Joan Aiken in fantasy land, spent her 101 Birthday yesterday having all sites hacked, so don't believe any strange messages...except this one of course...
@gavingrant.bsky.social 🖤
@gavingrant.bsky.social 🖤
Joan Aiken...always unexpected...but in good company...
August 29, 2025 at 11:34 AM
Joan Aiken...always unexpected...but in good company...
Joan Aiken celebrates her debt to a fantastic forerunner, the much loved E.Nesbit... Happy Birthday...🪶🪶
Buy it here and support the Nesbit Society:
www.edithnesbit.co.uk/society-publ...
Buy it here and support the Nesbit Society:
www.edithnesbit.co.uk/society-publ...
August 15, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Joan Aiken celebrates her debt to a fantastic forerunner, the much loved E.Nesbit... Happy Birthday...🪶🪶
Buy it here and support the Nesbit Society:
www.edithnesbit.co.uk/society-publ...
Buy it here and support the Nesbit Society:
www.edithnesbit.co.uk/society-publ...
Huge thanks to QuentinBlakeHQ and Lowry Salford for this lovely tribute to the stories created together with Joan Aiken - which introduced us all via BBC's Jackanory to MORTIMER and of course his best friend Arabel...Nevermore!!!
thelowry.com/quentin-blak...
thelowry.com/quentin-blak...
August 14, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Huge thanks to QuentinBlakeHQ and Lowry Salford for this lovely tribute to the stories created together with Joan Aiken - which introduced us all via BBC's Jackanory to MORTIMER and of course his best friend Arabel...Nevermore!!!
thelowry.com/quentin-blak...
thelowry.com/quentin-blak...
Cheers to @philipwomack.bsky.social for his @thespectator1828.bsky.social article imploring Writers and Editors to challenge young readers with more exciting language, like Joan Aiken! Babies love Beatrix Potter for odd words that they can remember and repeat...
www.pressreader.com/uk/the-spect...
www.pressreader.com/uk/the-spect...
August 9, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Cheers to @philipwomack.bsky.social for his @thespectator1828.bsky.social article imploring Writers and Editors to challenge young readers with more exciting language, like Joan Aiken! Babies love Beatrix Potter for odd words that they can remember and repeat...
www.pressreader.com/uk/the-spect...
www.pressreader.com/uk/the-spect...
Celebrating #internationalcatday with Joan Aiken's enormous Mog who saves the town of Carnmog from flooding, and catches a few fish 🐬😻 in one of her classic Necklace of Raindrops stories, illustrated by Jan Pienkowski of course!
www.joanaiken.com/books/a-neck...
www.joanaiken.com/books/a-neck...
August 8, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Celebrating #internationalcatday with Joan Aiken's enormous Mog who saves the town of Carnmog from flooding, and catches a few fish 🐬😻 in one of her classic Necklace of Raindrops stories, illustrated by Jan Pienkowski of course!
www.joanaiken.com/books/a-neck...
www.joanaiken.com/books/a-neck...
Stormy in the Highlands? It is for Joan Aiken's valiant heroine Valhalla who abandons the safety of a New York society marriage for some very wild adventures abroad...join her from the comfort of your own armchair...
www.panmacmillan.com/authors/joan...
www.panmacmillan.com/authors/joan...
August 4, 2025 at 10:18 AM
Stormy in the Highlands? It is for Joan Aiken's valiant heroine Valhalla who abandons the safety of a New York society marriage for some very wild adventures abroad...join her from the comfort of your own armchair...
www.panmacmillan.com/authors/joan...
www.panmacmillan.com/authors/joan...
Ahlbergs forever....!!! Books for Babies!!! 💚💛🩵❤️🧡
August 1, 2025 at 8:00 AM
Ahlbergs forever....!!! Books for Babies!!! 💚💛🩵❤️🧡
Joan Aiken Gothic Romance shocker - new paperback out now! #Girlrunsawaytohauntedcastle
joanaiken.wordpress.com/2025/07/25/j...
joanaiken.wordpress.com/2025/07/25/j...
July 25, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Joan Aiken Gothic Romance shocker - new paperback out now! #Girlrunsawaytohauntedcastle
joanaiken.wordpress.com/2025/07/25/j...
joanaiken.wordpress.com/2025/07/25/j...
Are you sitting comfortably? Then let Joan Aiken whisk you away to a Scottish Castle and an unputdownable Gothic Romance, coming out in a handsome new paperback from @panmacmillan.bsky.social ....you just have to wait until Thursday...
www.panmacmillan.com/authors/joan...
www.panmacmillan.com/authors/joan...
July 21, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Are you sitting comfortably? Then let Joan Aiken whisk you away to a Scottish Castle and an unputdownable Gothic Romance, coming out in a handsome new paperback from @panmacmillan.bsky.social ....you just have to wait until Thursday...
www.panmacmillan.com/authors/joan...
www.panmacmillan.com/authors/joan...
Bringing delight wherever they go, stories by Joan Aiken & pictures by Jan Pienkowski now out in Korea 💕🌈
www.joanaiken.com/book_categor...
www.joanaiken.com/book_categor...
July 9, 2025 at 8:26 AM
Bringing delight wherever they go, stories by Joan Aiken & pictures by Jan Pienkowski now out in Korea 💕🌈
www.joanaiken.com/book_categor...
www.joanaiken.com/book_categor...
Twelve tall tales make up the 'Wolves Chronicles' ... Joan Aiken's lifetime work for readers of all ages, an alternative world with plenty of wisdom to help us survive our own...
www.joanaiken.com/book_categor...
www.joanaiken.com/book_categor...
July 1, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Twelve tall tales make up the 'Wolves Chronicles' ... Joan Aiken's lifetime work for readers of all ages, an alternative world with plenty of wisdom to help us survive our own...
www.joanaiken.com/book_categor...
www.joanaiken.com/book_categor...
I love a list with Joan Aiken - you may also like...?
Super scary memories of her own schooldays, Oxford in the 1930's, plus some much older scarier ghosts...
www.joanaiken.com/books/the-sh...
Super scary memories of her own schooldays, Oxford in the 1930's, plus some much older scarier ghosts...
www.joanaiken.com/books/the-sh...
June 12, 2025 at 2:50 PM
I love a list with Joan Aiken - you may also like...?
Super scary memories of her own schooldays, Oxford in the 1930's, plus some much older scarier ghosts...
www.joanaiken.com/books/the-sh...
Super scary memories of her own schooldays, Oxford in the 1930's, plus some much older scarier ghosts...
www.joanaiken.com/books/the-sh...
Midway between May Eve, Walpurgis Night, and the Summer Solstice the Wonderful @hatchards.bsky.social held their annual highly celebrated gathering of stoytellers... amongst the partygoers of course was Joan Aiken, in this ghostly anthology thanks to @blpublishing.bsky.social and @johnnymains.co.uk
May 29, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Midway between May Eve, Walpurgis Night, and the Summer Solstice the Wonderful @hatchards.bsky.social held their annual highly celebrated gathering of stoytellers... amongst the partygoers of course was Joan Aiken, in this ghostly anthology thanks to @blpublishing.bsky.social and @johnnymains.co.uk
...with a little help from Jan Pienkowski....
May 14, 2025 at 9:36 AM
...with a little help from Jan Pienkowski....
A great plot, and a breathtaking adventure...Joan Aiken still gripping readers...
May 11, 2025 at 9:22 AM
A great plot, and a breathtaking adventure...Joan Aiken still gripping readers...
A time of hope for new beginnings, Joan Aiken's life in a picture timeline on the website...VE day at last...
www.joanaiken.com/timeline/#19...
www.joanaiken.com/timeline/#19...
May 8, 2025 at 7:01 AM
A time of hope for new beginnings, Joan Aiken's life in a picture timeline on the website...VE day at last...
www.joanaiken.com/timeline/#19...
www.joanaiken.com/timeline/#19...
A Cool corner for a quiet afternoon, Joan Aiken's reading chair with a favourite Stella Gibbons novel, her blue jug with lilac, and a home made book weight full of old pennies...
May 2, 2025 at 1:29 PM
A Cool corner for a quiet afternoon, Joan Aiken's reading chair with a favourite Stella Gibbons novel, her blue jug with lilac, and a home made book weight full of old pennies...
The latest collection from Joan Aiken has something for everyone, Kings, Queens, myths and monsters, from scary to hilarious, her own theory about how the world really began...and a sleepwalking bear!
www.joanaiken.com/books/the-wi...
www.joanaiken.com/books/the-wi...
April 29, 2025 at 3:43 PM
The latest collection from Joan Aiken has something for everyone, Kings, Queens, myths and monsters, from scary to hilarious, her own theory about how the world really began...and a sleepwalking bear!
www.joanaiken.com/books/the-wi...
www.joanaiken.com/books/the-wi...
Looking for stories for School Reading Time? Joan Aiken's latest collection has something for everyone...Kings, Queens, Monsters and Myths, Tales from Outer Space, (or under the sea) and a sleepwalking bear...!
www.joanaiken.com/books/the-wi...
www.joanaiken.com/books/the-wi...
April 29, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Looking for stories for School Reading Time? Joan Aiken's latest collection has something for everyone...Kings, Queens, Monsters and Myths, Tales from Outer Space, (or under the sea) and a sleepwalking bear...!
www.joanaiken.com/books/the-wi...
www.joanaiken.com/books/the-wi...