Eva Ibbotson

The Dragonfly Pool by Eva Ibbotson is an exciting story of friendship and determination during the Second World War, from the award-winning author of Journey to the River Sea and The Star of Kazan.

Beyond the everyday world of King's Cross Station lies an island of oddities and magic. When their infant Prince is stolen, the island's magical residents form a team to rescue him....

Hal's parents refuse to consider a dog....

Rupert, the young Earl of Westerholme, returns home from the war, and Anna falls in love with him. But Rupert is engaged, and Anna is only a servant. Or so everybody thinks....

Under Platform 13 at Kings Cross Station there is a secret door that leads to a magical island....

It is 1910 and Maia, tragically orphaned at 13, has been sent from England to start a new life with distant relatives in Manaus, hundreds of miles up the Amazon....

In 1896, in a pilgrim church in the Alps, an abandoned baby girl is found by a cook and a housemaid. Annika grows up in the servants' quarters. One day a glamorous stranger arrives at the door....

Maia, an orphan, can't wait to reach her distant relatives a thousand miles up the Amazon....

Arriman the Awful, Wizard of the North, is tired of being the most evil wizard in the world so he decides he must get married and have a son to take over....

Anna, a young countess, has lived in the glittering city of St Petersburg all her life. But when revolution tears Russia apart, her now-penniless family is forced to flee to England....

Deep in the Himalayas, the daughter of an English earl is kidnapped by a huge hairy monster....

Ruth lives in Vienna and is wildly in love with Heini Radik, a brilliant young pianist....

An unforgettable love story....

Heckie is not just a witch. She's a good witch who wants to make the world a better place. So, with her Toe of Transformation and her Knuckle of Power she turns unpleasant people into animals....

Arriman the Awful, feared Wizard of the North has decided to marry. His wife must be a witch of the darkest powers - but which witch will she be....

As a bloodcurlingly fearsome ghost, Humphrey the Horrible is a failure. But when the ghosts are in danger, it's clever Humphrey who comes up with a rescue plan....

Three children have been kidnapped by some mysterious, mad aunts and panic is spreading. But Myrtle, Coral and Etta are far from killers....

When a Hag, an orphan boy, and a troll called Ulf get sent to rescue a princess from an ogre, they expect it to be a fairly standard magical mission....

Spring, 1922. Tessa is a beautiful, tiny, dark-eyed princess who’s given up her duties to follow her heart and work backstage at the Viennese opera....

A glamorous woman arrives and sweeps Annika away to a crumbling castle in Germany. But there is much more to this new woman than meets the eye - and none of it is good....