Jones, Diana Wynne

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The tough guide to Fantasyland

2006
Contains alphabetically arranged entries that provide guidance for visitors to Fantasyland, telling what to do when captured by a Goblin, where to find a Healer when stricken with the Plague, and how to manage other aspects of traveling in the imaginative hinterlands.

Archer's goon

2003
After the Goon moves into Sykes' house and refuses to budge, thirteen-year-old Howard learns some startling information about his family, including the fact that he is adopted and that his father is connected with seven wizards who run their town.

Fire and hemlock

1985
At nineteen, Polly has two sets of sometimes overlapping, sometimes conflicting memories, the real-life ones of school days and her parents' divorce, and the heroic adventure ones that began the day she accidentally gate-crashed a funeral and met the cellist Thomas Lynn.

Stopping for a spell

three fantasies
2004
Includes three separate stories: "Chair Person," "The Four Grannies," and "Who Got Rid of Angus Flint?".

Deep secret

2002
Rupert Venables, a junior Magid assigned to maintain the balance between positive and negative magic on Earth and on the troublesome planets of the Koryfonic Empire, encounters a problem when the Empire's ruler is assassinated without a known heir, and Rupert's own senior Magid dies, leaving Rupert to replace him.

Deep secret

2000
Rupert Venables, a junior Magid assigned to maintain the balance between positive and negative magic on Earth and on the troublesome planets of the Koryfonic Empire, encounters a problem when the Empire's ruler is assassinated without a known heir, and Rupert's own senior Magid dies, leaving Rupert to replace him.

Aunt Maria

1991
While visiting and caring for Great-Aunt Maria, Mig and Chris discover that their "helpless" relative has frightening powers.

The ogre downstairs

2002
When a disagreeable man with two boys marries a widow with three children, family adjustments are complicated by two magic chemistry sets which cause strange things to happen around the house.

The magicians of Caprona

2001
After two centuries of feuding the powers of the two families of magicians in mythical Caprona are too weak to stop an incipient war, but the younger members of the families find a way.

The ogre downstairs

1990
When a disagreeable man with two boys marries a widow with three children, family adjustments are complicated by two magic chemistry sets which cause strange things to happen around the house.

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