Books in the Wonder Tales series

From the author of Gloaming and Wyrde and Wayward comes a sparkling wonder tale about a gentle widow, an eccentric wizard, and a wardrobe of magical hats...Meg Lavender has been alone since her husband died - well, mostly. There's a trio of widows in Ravensby Od; you can find them every Wednesday at Foxley's, absorbing syllabub, and tea. It's a quiet life in a quiet town; a sensible town, where tea is always at three o'clock sharp, and the trains arrive precisely when they're supposed to. But the past is an odd sort of place, and it won't always stay where it's meant to. Magic is coming back to Ravensby Od - and Meg Lavender's in the thick of it. It begins with a strange bequest, sped on the wings of ravens..."The world is full of strange things: it doesn't do to object, when they get a little stranger."Bursting with Charlotte E. English's unique charm, Ravensby Od is a wild, whimsical Wonder Tale to warm the heart and leave you smiling.

Distantly upon the horizon, bejewelled light shone like stars; tantalising, inviting.Then the palace-in-glass was gone, fading away into the velvet night like a snuffed lamp.Between the sands and the starlight, ancient powers rise, and the oldest of tales become new. An old sorcerer travels the starlight bazaars: cursed and magic-blighted, he has glass where his heart should be.A half-jinni enchantress seeks her missing son: daughter of a fallen king, hers is a great and daunting power.A trio of camels walks the sands: sisters in service, loyal, ensorcelled, there is more to their past than meets the eye. What unites these tales (and many more) is a marvel of sorcery and beauty: a great palace of ensorcelled glass, glimpsed only under the stars, and vanishing with the dawn...The third Wonder Tale from Charlotte E. English combines the magic and colour of ancient stories with her trademark wit and whimsy. A fresh journey into the strange lands of fairytales.

Once upon a chime...Every day at four o' clock, an enchanted twilight sweeps over Vale Argantel. Strange things happen under its eldritch influence: mists boil up out of the ground, rain pours out of a cloudless sky, and the roses grow wild and fey. Such is the way of things.But when her friend falls through a magic mirror and disappears, Margot realises something's changed. An ancient enchantment has gone awry, and chaos quickly spreads. Magic-drunk, confused and hampered at every turn, Margot must find a way to reclaim Oriane - and before anybody else disappears.But for Oriane, things are stranger still. Lost in a topsy-turvy world, how can she ever find her way home? For she's adrift in a place very like Argantel - eerily familiar, yet strangely different; a place which follows none of the usual rules…Get drunk on magic with this atmospheric fantasy fairytale... From the author of the Tales of Aylfenhame and Faerie Fruit.

From the author of the Tales of Aylfenhame comes a new fairy tale, replete with "large helpings of wit and whimsy" (Publisher's Weekly¿)When the centuries-barren orchards of Berrie-on-the-Wyn suddenly bear fruit, it is clear that something strange is afoot - and something fey, for this is no ordinary harvest. To partake of the fruits of Faerie is to be changed for good, but not necessarily for the better.Whence come the golden apples, the moonlit silver pears? Who is the motley piper who walks the streets of Berrie, drawing forth magic and mayhem with his music? And how can half of the town vanish into thin air?There may be chaos aplenty in Berrie, but all that's needed to set things straight is a touch of the right light - and maybe just the right pair of Boots...