Witch's Business (28 page)

In a career spanning four decades, award-winning author Diana Wynne Jones (1934–2011) wrote more than forty books of fantasy for young readers. Characterized by magic, multiple universes, witches and wizards—and a charismatic nine-lived enchanter—her books were filled with unlimited imagination, dazzling plots, and an effervescent sense of humor that earned her legendary status in the world of fantasy. In addition to being translated into more than twenty languages, her books have earned a wide array of honors—including two
Boston Globe-Horn Book
Award Honors and the Guardian Award—and appeared on countless best-of-the-year lists. Her best-selling
Howl's Moving Castle
was made into an animated film by Japanese director Hayao Miyazaki and was nominated for an Academy Award. Diana Wynne Jones was also honored with many prestigious awards for the body of her work. She was given the British Fantasy Society's Karl Edward Wagner Award in 1999 for having made a significant impact on fantasy, and she won the Lifetime Achievement Award at the World Fantasy Convention in 2007.

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Witch's Business
Copyright © 1973 by Diana Wynne Jones

First published in 1973 in Great Britain by Macmillan London Ltd. under the title
Wilkins' Tooth
.

First published in 1974 in the United States by E. P. Dutton & Co. under the title
Witch's Business
.

Reissued in 2002 by Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers. The right of Diana Wynne Jones to be identified as author of this work has been asserted by her.

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Jones, Diana Wynne.

Witch's business / by Diana Wynne Jones.

p. cm.

“Greenwillow Books.”

Originally published under title: Wilkins' tooth. Great Britain: Macmillan London, 1973. Witch's business first published in U.S.: New York : E. P. Dutton, 1974.

Summary: Frank and Jess's scheme to earn money by hiring themselves out as revenge seekers seems like a good one until they discover they are in competition with a witch.

ISBN 0-06-008782-X (trade). ISBN 0-06-008783-8 (lib. bdg.)

ISBN 0-06-008784-6 (pbk.)

EPub Edition © AUGUST 2012 ISBN: 9780062244598

[1. Magic—Fiction. 2. Witches—Fiction. 3. England—Fiction.] I. Title.

First Harper Trophy edition, 2004

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