Jan Mark

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  • Bibliography:
    18 Books
  • First Book:
    January 1978
  • Latest Book:
    March 2015
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Book List in Order: 18 titles

  • The Ennead

    Isaac is an outsider on the planet Erato - the lone survivor of a disaster elsewhere in the Ennead (a system of nine planets). But he has managed to infiltrate an important family and wields a significant amount of power. Even so, his position is oft...

  • Nothing to Be Afraid Of

  • Silly Tails

    Why is it that no one has ever heard vegetables talk? You see, it all started back in the days when the vegetables lived in a vegetable garden on the opposite side of a hedge from a band of rabbits who lived peacefully munching grass. The carrots wer...

  • Fun with Mrs. Thumb

  • The Oxford Book of Children's Stories

    Here are some of the very best short stories written for children over the last 250 years. Compiled by the well-known children's writer and Carnegie Medalist, Jan Mark, this is the first anthology to trace how children's short stories evolved, rangin...

  • Tale of Tobias

    The king becomes angry with Tobias's father and makes life for his family very difficult, but when a stranger possessing magic and wisdom enters his life, things begin to take a turn for the better, in a retelling of a story from the biblical Apocryp...

  • Mr. Dickens Hits Town

    Why do people react so strangely in the presence of the famous? The first “media” tour of North America " complete with fans and reporters " was that of the mid-nineteenth century British novelist Charles Dickens. At the end of his journey, D...

  • Midas Touch

  • Eyes Wide Open

    Six memorable short stories, never before published in a collection. Find out how...Visits from the tooth fairy can make you into a millionaire; A journey on the London Underground becomes a magical mystery tour for two lost boys; A ghostly sighting ...



  • Useful Idiots

    Set in the not-so-distant future, where the lowlands of Britain are flooded, this beautifully written novel explores a world where archaeology is banned for fear of the social unrest it might cause. One bleak morning, a storm across the North Sea sti...

  • Robin Hood All at Sea

  • In Black and White

  • Divide and Rule

    Divide and Rule is the story of Hanno, an outsider and an unbeliever, who nevertheless conforms to society and presents himself at the temple as all youths his age must do. He knows he won't be chosen as the Shepherd because of his lack of faith. So ...

  • Aquarius

    Viner lives in a land that constantly floods - his skill as a water diviner has lead to ridicule. But when he is kidnapped all this changes. His murderous captors force him to work for them in their drought-stricken country - and to challenge the Rai...

  • Hook or by Crook

  • Stratford Boys

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    Will is a glover's son, who spends his days fitting gloves to pretty hands in his father's busy shop, and apart from the odd poem he's never before put pen to paper. But the good people of Stratford require a play, and with his pal Adrian Croft he fi...

  • They Do Things Differently There

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  • Thunder and Lightnings

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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Jan Mark has published 18 books.

Jan Mark does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Hook or by Crook, was published in March 2015.

The first book by Jan Mark, The Ennead, was published in January 1978.

No. Jan Mark does not write books in series.
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