Unexpected Magic: Collected Stories
"Will delight existing fans and win new ones." – Kirkus Reviews
Master storyteller Diana Wynne Jones presents a riveting collection of unpredictable tales, including:
- A cat tells how the kindhearted wizard she owns is suddendly called upon to defeat a horrific beast.
- When Anne has mumps, her drawings come to life, and she must protect her home from them.
- Four children become involved in the intrigue surrounding an innocent prince, an evil count, and a brave outlaw.
These fifteen stories and one novella will enchant, startle, and suprise!
"Wonderfully fun and fantastical adventures. A must have." – VOYA
Contents:
- The Girl Jones
- Nad and Dan adn Quaffy
- The Plague of Peacocks
- The Master
- Enna Hittims
- The Girl Who Loved the Sun
- The Fluffy Pink Toadstool
- Auntie Bea's Day Out
- Carruthers
- What the Cat Told Me
- The Green Stone
- The Fat Wizard
- No One
- Dragon Reserve, Home Eight
- Little Dot
- Everard's Ride
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Diana Wynne Jones
Long before fantasy became mainstream, Diana Wynne Jones was quietly rewriting its rules—building magical worlds that felt both whimsical and wise, mischievous and deeply human. Her stories didn’t just sparkle with enchantment; they carried a quiet intelligence that dared young readers to think deeper, look sideways, and always expect the unexpected.
Born in London in 1934, Jones grew up amid wartime evacuations and an often-chaotic household—experiences that would later inform the strange, shifting families and fractured realities in her fiction. She studied English at Oxford under tutors like C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien, though she later remarked she learned more by not imitating them. Instead, she carved out her own voice: lyrical but grounded, funny but never flippant, magical yet steeped in emotional truth.
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