Eva Ibbotson

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....

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....

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

Heckie is determined not to be just a witch. With the help of local wizards and a little boy, she sets about putting the world to rights. But then she falls under the spell of smarming, charming Mr Knapsack....

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....

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

Alex McBuff doesn't want to sell the family castle. An orphan, its ghosts have been like a family to him....

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....

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

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....

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

Susanna Weber is the best dress maker in Imperial Vienna. Through skill and hard work, she now owns her own dress shop, looking out over the beautiful Madensky Square....

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

An unforgettable love story....

Performing in the grand opera houses and falling in love makes Harriet's new life complete. But swept away by it all, she is unaware that her father and fiance have begun to track her down....

The ghosts of Craggyford Castle have been happy for 500 years. But outside the world is changing. Soon there will be nothing left of their old haunts. So they set out to find a new home....

Weekly ballet classes are Harriet Morton's only escape from her intolerably dull life. So when she is chosen to join a corps de ballet which is setting off on a tour of the Amazon, she leaps at the chance....

Here's a tale of the ghosts and spooks you'll meet at the Dial-a-Ghost agency....

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....

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....