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The Pinhoe Egg (The Chrestomanci Series, Book 7)
By (Author) Diana Wynne Jones
Book 7
HarperCollins Publishers
HarperCollins
25th November 2025
31st July 2025
United Kingdom
Children
Fiction
823.914
Paperback
416
Width 129mm, Height 198mm, Spine 26mm
280g
Glorious new rejacket of a Diana Wynne Jones favourite, featuring Chrestomanci now a book with extra bits!
Spells always have consequences and it's Chrestomanci's job to make sure everything is safely under control. Even so, in the village around Chrestomanci Castle, all sorts of secret magical misuse is going on. And when Cat Chant finds the Pinhoe egg, chaos is just the beginning!
A masterpiece of magic, mayhem and mirth!
Her hallmarks include laugh-aloud humour, plenty of magic and imaginative array of alternate worlds. Yet, at the same time, a great seriousness is present in all of her novels, a sense of urgency that links Joness most outrageous plots to her readers hopes and fears
Publishers Weekly
Truly magical guaranteed to leave you gasping even hotter than Potter
The Bookseller
Diana Wynne Jones could teach Stephen King and JK Rowling a thing or two [she] has a skill for inserting just the right amount of detail in her written words, leaving you satiated but not stuffed. SFX
Diana Wynne Jones (19342011) spent her childhood in Essex and began writing fantasy novels for children in the 1970s. With her unique combination of magic, humour and imagination, she enthralled generations of children and adults with her work. She won the Guardian Award in 1977 with Charmed Life, was runner-up for the Children's Book Award in 1981 and was twice runner-up for the Carnegie Medal.