Tales of London Town : Manderley Press : 9781919642178 : 191964217X : 01 Sep 2024 : A brand new collection of Joan Aiken's stories and novellas - each set in a magical "other" London. Released to celebrate the centenary of the author's birth. It is introduced by the award-winning and best-selling author Kiran Millwood Hargrave, and illustrated by the renowned artist Annabel Pearl, both of whom are huge devotees of Aiken's writing, and London Town too! Tales of London Town takes us on an exhilarating journey through parts of the city we never knew existed, and lingers in Rumbury Town - an ancient and rather wild part of London, as imagined through each individual novella by master story-teller Joan Aiken. Rumbury Town is "an ancient, dusty, twisty, cobbly, narrow-laned quarter of north London. It has a canal, a hill, several venerable rail stations, an overgrown cemetery, a stretch of marshland known as Rumbury Waste, rows of little shops selling very odd goods, and som