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 some extremely ancient houses.’
This brand-new collection is introduced by the award-winning and best-selling author Kiran Millwood Hargrave, and illustrated by the renowned artist Annabel Pearl.