Female : Novelist and children's writer. Daughter of American poet Conrad Aiken. Stepdaughter of novelist, Martin Armstrong

Nationality : English Place of Birth : Rye, Sussex

Date of Birth : 1924 Date of Death : 2004 Age : 79

Other Work : Features Editor of Argosy magazine 1955

Education : Wychwood School, Oxford

UK Gollancz & US Doubleday
1953-1970
All You've Ever Wanted & Other Stories (1953 Cape) - Pat Marriott
More Than You Bargained for & Other Stories (1955 Cape) (1957 Abelard S) - Pat Marriott
The Kingdom of the Cave (1960 Abelard Schuman) (1974) - Dick Hart
The Wolves of Willoughby Chase (1962 Cape) (1963 Doubleday) - Pat Marriott
[Filmed in 1988]
The Silence of Herondale (1965) (1964 US)
The Fortune Hunters (1965 US)
Black Hearts in Battersea (1965 Cape) (1964 Doubleday) - Robin Jacques
Nightbirds on Nantucket (1966 Cape) (1966 Doubleday) - Pat Marriott
Trouble with Project X (1966) (1966 US as Beware of the Banquet)
Hate Begins at Home (1967) (1967 US - as Dark Interval)
The Ribs of Death (1967) (1968 US as The Crystal Cow)
The Whispering Mountain (1968 Cape) (1969 Doubleday) - GUARDIAN CHILDREN'S PRIZE
Armitage, Armitage, Fly Away Home (1968 Doubleday US) - Betty Fraser
A Necklace of Raindrops & other Stories (1968 Cape) (1968 Doubleday) - Jan Pienkowski
A Small Pinch of Weather & Other Stories (1969 Cape) - Pat Marriott
The Windscreen Weepers (1969 Gollancz)
Night Fall (1969 Macmillan US) (1971 Holt Rinehart US)
The Embroidered Sunset (1970) (1970 US)
Smoke from Cromwell's Time & Other Stories (1970 Doubleday US)

1971-1975
All and More (1971 Cape) - Pat Marriott
The Green Flash and Other Tales of Horror, Suspense and Fantasy (1971 Holt Rinehart US)
The Kingdom Under the Sea & other Stories (1971 Cape) - Jan Pienkowski
The Cuckoo Tree (1971 Cape) (1971 Doubleday) - Pat Marriott
A Harp of Fishbones & Other Stories (1972 Cape) - Pat Marriott
Died on a Rainy Sunday (1972) (1972 Holt Rinehart US)
The Butterfly Picnic (1972) (1972 US as A Cluster of Separate Sparks)
Winterthing (1972 Holt Rinehart US) - Play
Arabel's Raven (1972 BBC) (1974 Doubleday) - Quentin Blake
The Escaped Black Mamba (1973 BBC) - Quentin Blake. pb
All But a Few (1974 Penguin) - pb
The Mooncusser's Daughter (1974 Viking Press) - Play
Winterthing & The Mooncusser's Daughter (1974 Cape) - Play
Not What You Expected (1974 Doubleday US)
The Bread Bin (1974 BBC) - Quentin Blake. pb
Midnight is a Place (1974 Cape)
Voices in an Empty House (1975) (1975 US)

1976-1978
Mortimer's Tie (1976 BBC) - Quentin Blake. pb
The Skin Spinners (1976 Viking Press US) - verse
A Bundle of Nerves : Stories of Horror Supense & Fanatasy (1976 Gollancz)
Castle Barebane (1976) (1976 Viking Press US)
Last Movement (1977) (1977 US)
The Five-Minute Marriage (1977) (1978 US)
The Faithless Lollybird & Other Stories (1977 Cape) (1978 Doubleday) - Pat Marriott
The Far Forests : Tales of Romance, Fantasy & Suspense (1977 Viking)
Tales of One-Way Street and Other Stories (1978 Cape) (1979 Doubleday) - Jan Pienkowski
Mice and Mendelson (1978 Cape) - Babette Cole
The Smile of the Stranger (1978) (1978 US)
Go Saddle the Sea (1978 Cape) - Pat Marriott

1979-1980
Mortimer and the Sword Excalibur (1979 BBC) - Quentin Blake
The Spiral Stair (1979 BBC) - Quentin Blake. pb
A Touch of Chill : Stories of Horror, Suspense and Fantasy (1979 Gollancz) (1980 Delacorte
Arabel and Mortimer (1980 Cape) (1981 Doubleday) - Quentin Blake
Mortimer's Portrait on Glass (1980 BBC) - Quentin Blake pb
Mr Jones's Disappearing Taxi (1980 BBC) - Quentin Blake. pbThe Shadow Guests
(1980 Cape) (1980 Delacorte)
The Lightning Tree (1980) (1980 US as The Weeping Ash)

1981-1985
The Stolen Lake (1981 Cape) (1981 Delacorte) - Pat Marriott
A Whisper in the Night (1982 Gollancz)
The Way to Write for Children (1982 Elm Tree) - pb
The Young Lady from Paris (1982) (1982 US as The Girl from Paris)
Foul Matter (1983) (1983 US)
Bridle the Wind (1983 Cape) (1983 Delacorte) - Pat Marriott
Mortimer's Cross (1983 Cape) (1983 Harper) - Quentin Blake
The Kitchen Warriors (1983 BBC)
Mansfield Revisited (1984) (1985 US)
Up the Chimney Down & other stories (1984 Cape) (1984 Harper) - Pat Marriott
Mortimer Says Nothing (1985 Cape) (1985 Harper) - Quentin Blake
The Last Slice of Rainbow & Other Stories (1985 Cape) (1988 Harper)

1986-1990
Dido and Pa (1986 Cape) (1987 Delacorte) - Pat Marriott
Past Eight O'Clock (1986 Cape) - Jan Pienkowski
A Goose on Your Grave (1987 Gollancz)
Deception (1987) (1987 US as If I Were You)
The Moon's Revenge (1987 Cape £5.95) (1988 Knopf) - Alan Lee
The Erl King's Daughter (1988 Heinemann)
Voices (1988 Hippo) - pb
The Teeth of the Gale (1988 Cape) (1988 Harper) - Pat Marriott
Blackground (1989) (1989 US)
Give Yourself a fright (1989 Delacorte)
A Foot in the Grave (1989 Cape) - Jan Pienkowski
A Fit of Shivers (1990 Goollancz)
Jane Fairfax (1990 Gollancz £12.95)

After 1991
The Haunting of Lamb House (1991 Cape)
Is (1992 Cape) (1992 Delacorte)
Eliza's Daughter (1994 Gollancz)
A Handful of Gold (1995 Cape £10.99) - ss. - Quentin Blake
Emma Watson (1996 Gollancz)
The Cockatrice Boys (1997)
The Jewel Seed (1997)
Bridle in the Wind (1997)
In the Teeth of the Gale (1997)
Moon Cake (1998)
The Youngest Miss Ward (1998)
Dangerous Games (1999)
In Thunder's Pocket (2001)
The Scream (2001)