Diana Wynne Jones Books in Order

As the African country of Nmkwami prepares for independence from Britain, rumors of a mysterious figure named Mark Changeover disrupt its orderly plans. The hunt for him becomes a comic upheaval involving colonial officials, political ambitions, and mounting confusion.

Siblings Frank and Jess start a revenge business to earn money, believing they can arrange other people’s payback for a fee. Their first schemes entangle them with a gang, strange children, and a witch whose involvement makes revenge dangerously unpredictable.

Two sets of children resent being brought together when their parents marry, especially under a stern new stepfather. Chemistry sets with magical properties create increasingly chaotic experiments, forcing the feuding siblings to cooperate and reconsider their troubled household.

Moril travels through divided Dalemark with his family of musicians, unaware of his father’s secret political work. After violence disrupts their journey, the children must survive on their own and uncover the extraordinary powers of Moril’s inherited instrument.

Accused of murder, the star Sirius is condemned to live on Earth as a dog until he retrieves a missing celestial weapon. Adopted by a mistreated girl, he must balance animal instincts, fading memories, and a mission essential to his survival.

Orphaned David accidentally summons a boy named Luke while trying to escape his unpleasant relatives. Luke’s presence brings friendship and alarming visitors, drawing David into a conflict involving Norse gods and a quest to protect his troublesome new companion.

Gair feels ordinary beside his gifted siblings, but a curse threatens the moor where their people live. Encounters with children from rival races force them to question inherited hostilities and find a shared response to approaching disaster.

Cat and his ambitious sister Gwendolen are taken into the household of the powerful enchanter Chrestomanci. While Gwendolen resents the restrictions on her magic, Cat struggles to understand the castle’s rules and the powers shaping their lives.

Mitt grows up under the oppression of South Dalemark’s rulers and becomes involved in resistance. Fleeing a failed plot aboard a stolen boat, he joins two aristocratic runaways whose voyage brings them into contact with ancient divine powers.

An obnoxious guest moves into a family’s home and refuses to leave, imposing his demands on everyone around him. When Angus Flint’s insults extend to the furniture, the household gains unexpected allies in its effort to reclaim peace.

Driven from their home during war, Tanaqui and her siblings travel downriver through an ancient land. As enemies and a powerful sorcerer threaten their future, Tanaqui discovers that the coats she weaves can carry more than a record of events.

Erg and Emily expect one grandmother to look after them while their parents are away, but all four arrive. Their conflicting habits turn supervision into a battle, and Erg’s attempt to solve the problem with magic makes matters worse.

Two rival families supply Caprona with magical spells while their generations-long feud intensifies. As the city’s defenses weaken and war approaches, children from both households must confront dangers their elders’ mutual distrust prevents them from properly understanding.

Jamie discovers mysterious beings playing games with entire worlds and is banished for learning their secret. Forced to travel between realities until he finds home, he joins other wanderers who may help him challenge the players’ cruel rules.

A ghost awakens without knowing who she is and finds four neglected sisters living at a boarding school. Piecing together her connection to them reveals a dangerous supernatural bargain and a threat reaching beyond the time she remembers.

A note claiming that someone in the class is a witch sends a boarding school into turmoil. In a world where magic is punished by death, several uneasy students discover abilities that make the accusation more dangerous than they expected.

Howard returns home to find a threatening goon demanding words his writer father supposedly owes a wizard. Investigating the debt draws the family into the rivalries of seven powerful siblings whose control over the town reaches into everyday life.

This comic handbook explores the art of avoiding unwanted work and tedious obligations. Its mock-serious advice covers excuses, school, family demands, and feigned illnesses, turning the effort required to shirk responsibilities into a joke about ingenuity and human behavior.

Children, troublesome adults, and unreliable magic populate this collection of eight stories. A warlock’s criminal plans, overbearing neighbors, and other strange encounters provide occasions for unexpected justice, while ordinary frustrations develop into comic or unsettling supernatural situations.

Polly discovers that she has two conflicting sets of memories, one involving musician Thomas Lynn. Reconstructing their childhood friendship draws her into a hidden magical danger, where the stories they invented together may hold the key to saving him.

Cursed into the body of an elderly woman, Sophie Hatter leaves her hat shop and enters the moving castle of Wizard Howl. Her bargain with its fire demon entangles her in spells, missing people, and the wizard’s carefully concealed secrets.

Evacuated from London in 1939, Vivian is mistakenly taken to a city that exists outside ordinary history. With two young inhabitants, she investigates the thefts destabilizing its protective system before the city and the course of time collapse.

Christopher can visit other worlds in his dreams but believes he has little talent for magic. His unusual abilities attract the attention of an enchanter and a secretive uncle, drawing him into duties and dangers he barely understands.

This anthology edited by Alex Stewart brings together speculative stories about sexuality, desire, love, and death. Contributors including Diana Wynne Jones, Iain M. Banks, and Tanith Lee explore intimate relationships through science fiction, fantasy, and horror settings.

An old armchair comes to life just as Simon and Marcia’s family decides to discard it. The resulting Chair Person is demanding, rude, and full of television-derived opinions, turning an everyday disposal problem into a struggle for control of the household.

Edited by Diana Wynne Jones, this anthology gathers twelve stories of transformations and unexpected encounters across time and space. Wolves, gods, possession, and altered identities appear in contributions by writers including Tanith Lee, Robert Westall, and Terry Pratchett.

Heather seeks refuge from the tourists crowding the historic house where her parents work and accidentally summons Wild Robert. The long-dead magician’s response to modern visitors creates escalating chaos, leaving Heather to contend with his alarming sense of justice.

Carpet merchant Abdullah dreams of a grander life until a flying carpet carries him to a princess’s garden. When a djinn abducts her, his search draws him into a journey involving enchanted companions, stolen identities, and a castle beyond reach.

Mig and her family visit apparently frail Aunt Maria in a seaside town, only to find her demands increasingly oppressive. Strange behavior among the residents hints at magical control, drawing the children into a struggle against their aunt’s hidden power.

A secret group of witches discovers that another world engineers disasters on Earth to steal the solutions. They send an expedition to stop the exploitation, creating an interdimensional conflict complicated by spies, personal relationships, and unpredictable magical consequences.

Kay catches a golden leaf that can transform ordinary surroundings into magical adventures. Her busy family dismisses her attempts to share what is happening, leaving her to explore its wonders and seek someone who understands the extraordinary thing she has found.

Ann enters Hexwood Farm without knowing where or when she will emerge. When someone interferes with its mysterious machines, disturbances spread across the universe, leaving Ann, Hume and Mordion to oppose the Reigners while questioning whether their own lives are being manipulated.

Three comic fantasies turn troublesome visitors into household emergencies. A discarded armchair becomes an overbearing man, four grandmothers overwhelm two children, and an unbearable guest provokes the furniture itself, showing how magical solutions can complicate ordinary family problems.

Maewen is transported into Dalemark’s past and must impersonate a missing young woman who claims the throne. Joining travelers with competing loyalties, she seeks the tokens needed to establish a ruler while hidden powers manipulate the kingdom’s future.

This illustrated anthology selected by Diana Wynne Jones introduces readers to eighteen fantasy stories and excerpts. Contributions from writers including C. S. Lewis, Joan Aiken, L. Frank Baum, and Norton Juster span magical creatures, strange journeys, and unfamiliar worlds.

The title novella follows Victorian siblings who shelter a mysterious rider and become involved in a kingdom from another time. This collection also brings together shorter fiction and an essay examining how narrative works in The Lord of the Rings.

Edited by Diana Wynne Jones, Spellbound gathers fantasy stories and excerpts from a range of authors, classic and contemporary. It’s designed as a sampler for younger readers, introducing them to witches, dragons, and otherworldly adventures—including a taste of C. S. Lewis’s Narnian world.

Seven stories explore magic through encounters with captivity, dreams, unusual gifts, and worlds whose order is threatened. Children, a cat, a sun-loving girl, and an imprisoned woman face situations in which discovering unexpected powers can change the limits of their lives.

Presented as a travel reference for imaginary tourists, this satirical guide catalogs the familiar conventions of fantasy adventures. Entries examine inns, quests, rulers, landscapes, and magical creatures, exposing the repeated assumptions that govern journeys through invented worlds.

Magid Rupert Venables must recruit a replacement colleague while managing a succession crisis in another world. Bringing his candidates to a fantasy convention seems convenient, until competing magical duties and an unsuitable-seeming young woman complicate his carefully arranged plans.

A fantasy realm is forced to stage destructive adventures for visitors from another world. Appointed to play the Dark Lord, wizard Derk and his unconventional family struggle to organize the spectacle while a larger plan aims to end the tours.

These seven fantasy stories follow characters whose beliefs and unusual abilities reshape their circumstances. A captive boy and cat, a child destined to disrupt an ordered society, and a girl drawn to the sun encounter magic with far-reaching personal consequences.

An illustrated version of the traditional fairy tale follows a miller's son whose cat proves remarkably clever. Diana Wynne Jones tells the story for young readers, accompanied by illustrations by Fangorn.

Four stories revisit the worlds overseen by Chrestomanci, where troublesome magic draws children, warlocks, and gods into unexpected predicaments. Cat and Tonino face danger together, while other characters confront disrupted dreams and a powerful sage.

Cat Chant resents the attention paid to visiting magician Tonino Montana at Chrestomanci Castle. When a malevolent enchanter kidnaps both boys, they must cooperate to prevent him from stealing the souls of the previous Chrestomanci.

Griffin Elda arrives at a university to study wizardry and befriends five fellow students with complicated family backgrounds. Together they question an education undermined by financial troubles and teachers more interested in their own ambitions.

This collection brings together fifteen short stories and a novella about magic intruding into ordinary and fantastical lives. A cat narrates a wizard's predicament, while a sick girl's drawings become alarming visitors to her bedroom.

Roddy senses a dangerous conspiracy after a new Merlin takes charge of her magical homeland. Nick, a teenager from another world, becomes her unlikely ally, and their intersecting journeys draw them toward powers threatening the balance between realities.

Told that his bad karma threatens his life, Conrad becomes a trainee servant at Stallery Mansion to identify its source. Fellow servant Christopher has a separate mission, and their searches become entangled in the household's mysteries.

Confined to bed with mumps, Anne invents a land and draws adventurers to explore it. When the figures come to life, her imaginative diversion becomes an increasingly unruly problem that threatens to overwhelm her home.

Marianne Pinhoe gives Cat Chant an unusual egg discovered in an attic, unaware of its significance. Its arrival connects Chrestomanci Castle with a secretive magical family whose efforts to avoid scrutiny are becoming dangerously unstable.

Raised by restrictive grandparents, Hayley is sent to stay with relatives in Ireland after upsetting her grandmother. Her cousins introduce her to a game played through the mythosphere, revealing unexpected connections between her family and ancient stories.

Charmain agrees to look after her great-uncle's house, unaware that its rooms lead beyond ordinary space and time. An apprentice, a stray dog, and a royal mystery draw her into adventures involving Sophie and Howl.

Andrew Hope inherits his grandfather's house and surrounding land but has forgotten much of the magic associated with them. When orphan Aidan Cain arrives seeking protection, their intertwined difficulties expose the property's unusual powers and responsibilities.

Earwig enjoys life at her orphanage, where she usually persuades everyone to do what she wants. Adopted by a disagreeable witch and a mysterious man, she turns to ingenuity and a talking cat for help.

Essays, talks, and an interview explore Diana Wynne Jones's experiences as a fantasy writer over three decades. She discusses her childhood, literary influences, education, and the imaginative and ethical questions involved in writing for children.

Two stories feature unwelcome visitors whose behavior turns ordinary homes into places of magical disruption. An obnoxious guest proves difficult to remove, while a transformed armchair becomes a troublesome person whom children must deal with.

Young Aileen accompanies her Aunt Beck on a mission to rescue a kidnapped prince from the island of Logra. With companions including a prince and a servant, she confronts a magical barrier while doubting her own abilities.