Diana Wynne Jones Summary

Diana Wynne Jones "is a prolific novelist of enormous range who can raise hairs on the back of the neck one minute, belly laughs the next," asserts Elaine Moss in the Times Literary Supplement. Jones ... Read more

Critical Essay by Cathy S. Coyle Desperately in need of money, Frank and Jess form a neighborhood revenge service [in Witch's Business, published in Britain as Wilkin's Tooth]. However,... Read more

Critical Essay by Neil Philip As the fantasy genre fastens its grip on children's writing its landscapes seem to be growing more shadowy and indistinct. The detailed, concrete worlds of Tolkie... Read more

Critical Essay by Mary M. Burns Like Joan Aiken, [Diana Wynne Jones] has a remarkable talent for creating a time which never was yet which seems believably familiar. The fantasy [The Magicians of Cap... Read more

Critical Essay by Christopher Davis ["Witch's Business"] is typical of a kind of TV story style—two-dimensional, linear, endlessly this-happened-then-that-happened. Talk, ... Read more

Critical Essay by Margery Fisher By now we can trust Diana Wynne Jones to sustain daylight magic with aplomb, humour and total logic. Like The Ogre downstairs, her new story, Eight days of Luke, is b... Read more

Critical Essay by Zena Sutherland Adroitly blended realism and fantasy, [The Ogre Downstairs] … uses the results of magic potions to further compatibility. Caspar, Gwinny, and Johnny detest th... Read more