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Diana Wynne Jones


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Year of the Griffin

(LOC) Summary: When Elda, the griffin daughter of the great Wizard Derk, arrives for schooling at the Wizards' University, she encounters new friends, pirates, assassins, worry, sabotage, bloodshed, and magic misused.

The Tough Guide to Fantasyland (US expanded, )

Imagine that every single fantasy novel featuring kings, dragons, quests, and magic takes place in the same country. That country is called Fantasyland.
Part 'travel guide' for the hapless 'fantasy tourist' (or 'reader'), part send-up of fantasy literature's cliches, Diana Wynne Jones's The Tough Guide to Fantasyland is a must-read for every genre fiction fan as well as aspiring writer.
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Other Tough Guides

The Tough Guide to Transport in the Multiverse (mostly by Telephone Box)

How to Use this Book [to accompany a fantasy tour/read]

Identification Elements

(iconic silhouettes) "You will find these next to most entries." : eg, a fork and knife marks "Food"; the letter 'C' marks "Cliche"

Example short entries:
INDUSTRY. Apart from a bit of pottery and light metalwork or some slagheaps around the domain of the DARK LORD,most Tours encounter no industry at all. Even the EMBROIDERY factories are kept well out of sight.

See also ECONOMY.

SPORT. The only real sport is FIGHTS. Those who can, train fiercely and take on everyone. Those who can't watch GLADIATORS and lay BETS.

See also GAMES and GAMING.

Chrestomanci

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Title Publ. Setting Protagonist
The Lives of C.C. 1988 12B (London? and C. Castle) and series 1–11
Conrad's Fate 2005 7-?: nearest town and Stallery castle
Charmed Life 1977 12B: hometown(?) and Chrestomanci Castle
Magicians of Caprona 1980 12B: Caprona Italy, mainly Casa Montana
The Pinhoe Egg 2006 12B: Chrestomanci Castle and neighboring towns
Witch Week 1982 12-?: Larwood House and neighboring town
Cover artists
# Title first U.K. cover U.S. cover
4 The Lives of C.C. 1988 ?
Paul Slater 		* Joseph A. Smith
Greg Newbold
6 Conrad's Fate 2005 * stars LR? * Jon Foster
Dan Craig
1 Charmed Life 1977 * Ionicus
(unknown)
Sarah Govia
Paul Slater
stars LR? 		*Muriel Batherman
[1]
Greg Newbold
2 Magicians of Caprona 1980 * Ionicus
Alan Fraser
Paul Slater 		?
Greg Newbold
5 Mixed Magics 2000 * Paul Slater * Greg Newbold
7 The Pinhoe Egg 2006 * stars LR? * Brandon Dorman
3 Witch Week 1982 * Ionicus
Paul Slater 		?
Greg Newbold
5* Stealer of Souls 2002 *Paul Slater
1:4 The C. Quartet 2000 * Greg Newbold
1,4 Chronicles of C., I 2001 * Dan Craig
Brandon Dorman
2:3 Chronicles of C., II 2001 * Dan Craig
Brandon Dorman
6:7 Chronicles of C., III 2007 * Brandon Dorman

Editions

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All US first editions were hardcover Greenwillow Books imprint (volume #1-4 also naming William Morrow and Company at ISFDB, but we say WM became part of Scott Foresman 1967 Hearst Corp 1981 News Corp 1999, now an imprint of Harper Collins within News Corp.

News Corporation created HarperCollins acquired Harper & Row 1987, William Collins, Sons 1990


UK 2000 set of five #1-5 (reissue of four with first #5) branded "The Worlds of Chrestomanci" by Paul Slater cover illustrations.[1]

US 1997 to 1999 hardcover with Greg Newbold cover illustrations with "A Chrestomanci Book" along bottom edge

US 2000-12 omnibus #1-4 The Chrestomanci Quartet http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?127521 Ch Quartet 2000-12 US

US 2001 paperbacks with top banner "A Chrestomanci Novel" and Newbold illustrations without stone arch framework of the hardcover eds.

US Chronicles of Chrestomanci, three vols.

  • I (Charmed Life, Lives of CC)

Apr 2007, Eos, pb, 598 ISBN 978-0-06-447268-5, Brandon Dorman

"The Chrestomanci Books" list of five on back cover of US #6 Conrad's Fate

References

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  1. ^ {{isfdb
  • 1 New York : Greenwillow Books, 1977.
Description: 218 p. ; 22 cm.
ISBN: 0688801382 0688841384 (lib. bdg.)
Gwendolen Chant and her brother Cat find the Chrestomancie Castle family’s magic powers difficult to counter with the inferior powers of the Coven Street witches.
Fantasy.
Magic --Fiction.
PZ7.J684 Ch 1977
  • 2 New York : Greenwillow Books, c1980.
Description: 223 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
ISBN: 0688802834 : $7.95 0688842836 (lib. bdg.) : 7.63
After two centuries of feuding the powers of the two families of magicians in mythical Caprona are too weak to stop an incipient war, but the younger members of the families find a way.
Fantasy.
Magic --Fiction.
PZ7.J684 Mag 1980

Beech Tree 1999

"RL 5.1"--P. [4] of cover.
"10 up"--P. [4] of cover.
  • 3 New York : Greenwillow Books, c1982.
Description: 213 p. ; 24 cm.
ISBN: 0688015344 : $9.50
When a teacher at an English boarding school finds a note on his desk accusing someone in the class of being a witch, magical things begin to happen and an Inquisitor is summoned.
Witchcraft --Fiction.
Boarding schools --Fiction.
Schools --Fiction.
England --Fiction.
PZ7.J684 Wj 1982
  • 4 New York : Greenwillow Books, c1988.
Description: 230 p. ; 24 cm.
ISBN: 0688078060 (lib. bdg.)
Young Christopher Chant, in training to become the next Chrestomanci or head controller of magic in the world, becomes a key figure in a battle with renegade sorcerers because he has nine lives.
Fantasy.
Magic --Fiction.
PZ7.J684 Li 1988
  • o Chronicles of Chrestomanci / Diana Wynne Jones.
Edition: 1st Harper trophy ed.
Published/Created: New York : HarperCollins Publishers, 2001.
Description: 2 v. ; 17 cm.
ISBN: 006447268X (v. 1 : pbk.) 0064472698 (v. 2 : pbk.)
Summary: Adventures of the Chrestomanci, an enchanter with nine lives, whose job is to control the practice of magic in the infinite parallel universes of the Twelve Related Worlds.
Contents: v. 1. Charmed life. The lives of Christopher Chant -- v. 2. Witch Week. The magicians of Caprona.
Fantasy.
Magic --Fiction.
Witchcraft --Fiction.
LC classification: PZ7.J684 Cj 2001
  • 5 New York : Greenwillow Books, 2001.
Description: 138 p. ; 24 cm.
ISBN: 0060297050 (trade) 0060297069 (lib. bdg.)
Summary: Four separate incidents test the power of the Chrestomanci, a powerful enchanter with nine lives, to control misuses of magic on various worlds.
Fantasy.
Magic --Fiction.
LC classification: PZ7.J684 Mi 2001
  • 6 New York : Greenwillow Books, c2005.
Description: 375 p. ; 22 cm.
ISBN: 0060747439 (trade) 0060747447 (lib. bdg.)
Summary: When his uncle sends him to work at the mysterious Stallery Mansion, twelve-year-old Conrad Tesdinic overcomes his bad karma and discovers in the mansion’s winecellar the source of the magic that threatens to pull his world into one of the eleven other parallel universes.
Notes: "A Chrestomanci book."
5 up.
Magic --Fiction.
Witchcraft --Fiction.
Fantasy.
LC classification: PZ7.J684 Co 2005
  • 7 New York : Greenwillow Books, c2006.
Description: 515 p. ; 22 cm.
ISBN: 0061131245 (trade bdg.) 0061131253 (lib. bdg.) 9780061131240 (trade bdg.) 9780061131257 (lib. bdg.)
Summary: Two powerful young enchanters, Cat, the future Chrestomanci, and Marianne, who is being trained to be Gammer of the Pinhoes, work together as friends to try to end an illegal witches’ war and, in the process, right some old wrongs.
Notes: "A Chrestomanci book."
Ages 10 up.
Magic --Fiction.
Witchcraft --Fiction.
Fantasy.
PZ7.J684 Pin 2006

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DWJ Fiction

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Talk: Diana Wynne Jones bibliography#Short fiction

  • "Fat Wizard", in Guardian Angels (Viking Kestrel, 1987)
  • "Little Dot", in Firebirds (Penguin, 2003)

Short fiction in ISFDB

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Chrestomanci 

aWABM   The Sage of Theare (1982) [SF]
 W  M   Warlock at the Wheel (1984) [SF]
a   M   Carol Oneir's Hundredth Dream (1986) [SF]
    Mo  Stealer of Souls (2000) [SF]

Chapterbooks 

--   Who Got Rid of Angus Flint? (1978) [orig. 1975]
--   Chair Person (1989)
     Yes Dear (1992) [large-format picture book, one edition listed twice]
--   Stealer of Souls (2002) [orig. 2000]
--   Enna Hittims (2006) [orig. 1999]

Shortfiction [This listing excludes 4 Chrestomanci stories. It matches ISFDB except I have added The Four Grannies, which ISFDB lists among Novels. Perhaps Puss in Boots should also be called short fiction.] 

       n: numerals are page counts from Uncertain Magics reported in ISFDB
aS     Who Got Rid of Angus Flint? (1975)
aW   U Carruthers (1978)
aW   U The Fluffy Pink Toadstool (1979)
aW   U Auntie Bea's Day Out (1979)
oS     The Four Grannies (1980)
 WE  U No One (1984)
 WEABU Dragon Reserve, Home Eight (1984)
 WE  U The Plague of Peacocks (1984)
a    U The Fat Wizard (1987)
a    U The Green Stone (1988)
e EABU The Master (1989)
aS     Chair Person (1989)
a      Mela Worms (1989)
a EABU nad and Dan adn Quaffy (1990)  
a  ABU The Girl Who Loved the Sun (1990)
       Yes Dear (1992) [large-format picture book, one edition listed twice]
e  ABU What the Cat Told Me (1994)
  E  U Everard's Ride (1995)
  EA   The True State of Affairs (1995)
a    U The Girl Jones (1998)
    BU Enna Hittims (1999)
a    U Little Dot (2003)
       I'll Give You My Word (2006)
       JoBoy (2009)
       Samantha's Diary (2010)

Essays 

? E  The Shape of the Narrative in The Lord of the Rings (Everard's Ride)

Original to the collections: 

 4/8 W Warlock
 0/3 S Stopping for a Spell (1993)
 2/8 E Everard's
 1/7 A Minor Arcana
 1/7 B Believing
 1/4 M Mixed Magics (2000)
0/16 U Uncertain Magic (2004)

Collections S, M, U comprise 23 distinct stories, among 29 in ISFDB by my count. There are 6 others: 

a      Mela Worms (1989)
  EA   The True State of Affairs (1995)
       Yes Dear (1992), large-format picture book 
       I'll Give You My Word (2006)
       JoBoy (2009)
       Samantha's Diary (2010)


--Chrestomanci (4) 

b "The Sage of Theare", Hecate's Cauldron (1982) ed. Susan M. Schwartz
a "Warlock at the Wheel", Warlock at the Wheel, Jones (Macmillan, 1984)
b "Carol Oneir's Hundredth Dream", Dragons and Dreams (1986) ed. Jane Yolen et al.
c "Stealer of Souls", Mixed Magics (2000) by Jones

--Other (25) 

a=shortstory, b=novelette, c=novella
b "Who Got Rid of Angus Flint?", Young Winter's Tales 6, ed. M. R. Hodgkin (Macmillan, 1975); aka "The Fearsome Friend"
b "Carruthers", Young Winter's Tales 8, ed. D. J. Denney (Macmillan, 1978)
a "The Fluffy Pink Toadstool", Puffin Post v13 #4 (1979)
a "Auntie Bea's Day Out", The Cat Flap and the Apple Pie and Other Funny Stories, ed. Lance Salway (W. H. Allen, 1979)
b The Four Grannies, Jones (Antelope Books, 1980)
b "No One", Warlock at the Wheel and other stories, Jones (Macmillan, 1984)
b "Dragon Reserve, Home Eight", Warlock at the Wheel, Jones (Macmillan, 1984)
a "The Plague of Peacocks", Warlock at the Wheel, Jones (Macmillan, 1984)
a "The Fat Wizard", Guardian Angels, ed. Stephanie Nettell (Viking Kestrel, 1987)
a "The Green Stone", Gaslight & Ghosts, eds. Stephen Jones, Jo Fletcher (Robinson, 1988) 
a "The Master", Hidden Turnings, ed. Jones (Methuen, 1989)
b Chair Person, Jones (Hamilton, 1989)
a "Mela Worms", Arrows of Eros, Alex Stewart (NEL, 1989)
b "nad and Dan adn Quaffy", Digital Dreams, ed. David V. Barrett (NEL, 1990) 
a "The Girl Who Loved the Sun", Heartache, ed. Miriam Hodgson (1990)
  Yes Dear, Jones (HarperCollins, 1992), illus. Graham Philpot — large-format picture book
b "What the Cat Told Me", Fantasy Stories, ed. Jones (1994)
c "Everard's Ride", Everard's Ride, Jones (NESFA Press, 1995)
c "The True State of Affairs", Everard's Ride, Jones (NESFA Press, 1995)
a "The Girl Jones", Sisters, ed. Miriam Hodgson (Mammoth, 1998)
a "Enna Hittims", Believing is Seeing, Jones (1999)
b "Little Dot", Firebirds (Penguin, 2003)
b "I'll Give You My Word", Firebirds Rising, ed. Sharyn November (Penguin, 2006)
a "JoBoy", The Dragon Book, ed. Jack Dann, Gardner Dozois (Ace, 2009)
a "Samantha's Diary", Stories: all-new tales, ed. Neil Gaiman, Al Sarrantonio (HarperCollins, 2010)

Poem 

"A Slice of Life", Now We Are Sick: an anthology of nasty verse, ed. Neil Gaiman, Stephen Jones (DreamHaven Books,

1991)

Novels 

Puss in Boots (Scholastic UK, 1999) —story length "juvenile" in ISFDB


Jones collections 

n=number of stories; o=number original to the collection; one-letter abbreviation
n o
8 4 W Warlock at the Wheel and other stories (Macmillan, 1984) —(Greenwillow, 1985)
3 0 S Stopping for a Spell: three fantasies (NY: Greenwillow, 1993), illus. Jos. A. Smith —(Collins, 2002), illus. none or missing data
     (Greenwillow, 2004), illus. Mark Zug
8 2 E Everard's Ride (Boston: NESFA Press, 1995) —limited edition as Guest of Honor, 1995 Boskone
7 1 A Minor Arcana (Gollancz, 1996)
7 1 B Believing is Seeing: seven stories (NY: Greenwillow, 1999), illus. Nenad Jakesevic
4 1 M Mixed Magics: four tales of Chrestomanci (Collins, 2000), illus. Tim Stevens —(Greenwillow, 2001)
16 0 U Uncertain Magic: collected stories (HarperCollins, 2004) [simultaneous publ? or US only?]

non-series "Novels" per ISFDB 

first-edition (or earliest reported) page-count in ISFDB
 ?   Changeover (Macmillan, 1970) 
   UK only "Changeover takes place in the fictional country of Nwmkawami, which is on the verge of gaining independence from Britain."
 ?   Wilkins' Tooth (?, 1973) ; Witch's Business (NY: Dutton, 1974) US ed. 168pp 
191  The Ogre Downstairs (Macmillan, 1974)
191  Dogsbody (Macmillan, 1975)
 ?   Eight Days of Luke (?, 1975) ; 1988 US ed. 147pp
 ?   Power of Three (?, 1976) ; 1977 US ed. 250pp
 ?   The Four Grannies (Antelope Books, 1980)
   UK only, i presume, same as Angus Flint 1978 and Chair Person 1989 which ISFDB calls chapterbooks 
304  The Time of the Ghost (Macmillan, 1981)
224  The Homeward Bounders (Macmillan, 1981)
241  Archer's Goon (Methuen, 1984)
314* Fire and Hemlock (Greenwillow, 1984) ; (Methuen, 1985) — ISFDB reports both the US edition both 1995 and Dec 1994 (same ISBN); finalist for the Mythopoeic Award 1986, runner-up for the Phoenix Award 2005, which imply 1985/86 award cycles  
284+ A Tale of Time City (Methuen, 1987)
 96  Wild Robert (Mammoth, 1989) — 2009 cover shows "The ghost with magic at his fingertips!"
   US Greenwillow, 2003 illus. Mark Zug
207  Black Maria (Methuen, 1991) ; Aunt Maria (Greenwillow, 1991) 
412* A Sudden Wild Magic (AvoNova, 1992) ; (Gollancz, 1996) UK ed. 380pp
288  Hexwood (Methuen, 1993)
 96  Puss in Boots (Scholastic, 1999) 
   UK only, price 1L, perhaps for World Book Day, as Stealer of Souls 2002 price=1L
179* The Game (US:Penguin, 2007) ; (HC, 2008) UK ed. 198+20pp, unexplained
332  Enchanted Glass (HC, 2010)
144  Earwig and the Witch (HC, 2011)

It appears to me that Wild Robert and Puss in Boots, like Stealer of Souls, should be called novellas and its useful to group all three of those with Everard's Ride and The True State of Affairs

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