Title: A Tale of Time City

Title: A Tale of Time City Title Record # 1055
Author: Diana Wynne Jones
Date: 1987-09-00
Type: NOVEL
Webpages: Wikipedia-EN
Language: English

Synopsis: In 1939 an eleven-year-old London girl is kidnapped to Time City, a place existing outside the stream of time and manipulating the history of humanity, where she finds the inhabitants facing their worst hour of crisis.

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Translations

Year	Language	Title
2015^ⓘTranslated by Serena Scodeller.	Italian	La città del tempo
2022^ⓘTranslated by Magali Mangin.	French	La Cité du Temps

Publications

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Title	Date	Author/Editor	Publisher/Pub. Series	ISBN/Catalog ID	Price	Pages	Format	Type	Cover Artist
A Tale of Time City	1987-09-00	Diana Wynne Jones	Greenwillow Books / William Morrow	0-688-07315-8	$11.75^?$: US dollar. ISO code: USD	278	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	novel
A Tale of Time City	1987-10-00	Diana Wynne Jones	Methuen Children's Books	0-416-02362-2	£8.95^?£: UK pound. ISO code: GBP	284	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	novel	Alun Hood
A Tale of Time City	1989-04-00	Diana Wynne Jones	Teens / Methuen	0-416-10192-5	£1.99^?£: UK pound. ISO code: GBP	285	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	novel	Alun Hood
A Tale of Time City	1989-04-00	Diana Wynne Jones	Bullseye Books / Alfred A. Knopf	0-394-82030-4	$3.95^?$: US dollar. ISO code: USD	279	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	novel	Richard Bober
A Tale of Time City	1990-07-00	Diana Wynne Jones	Teens Mandarin	0-7497-0440-3	£2.99^?£: UK pound. ISO code: GBP	285	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	novel	Alan Fraser
A Tale of Time City	1994-05-00	Diana Wynne Jones	Teens Mandarin	0-7497-0440-3	£2.99^?£: UK pound. ISO code: GBP	285	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	novel	Alan Fraser
A Tale of Time City	2000-06-00	Diana Wynne Jones	Collins	0-00-185734-7	£10.99^?£: UK pound. ISO code: GBP	362	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	novel	Fred Gambino
A Tale of Time City	2000-06-00	Diana Wynne Jones	Collins	0-00-675520-8	£4.99^?£: UK pound. ISO code: GBP	362	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	novel	Fred Gambino
A Tale of Time City	2001-00-00	Diana Wynne Jones	Greenwillow Books / HarperTrophy	0-06-447351-1	$6.95^?$: US dollar. ISO code: USD	327	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	novel	David Bowers
A Tale of Time City	2002-00-00	Diana Wynne Jones	Greenwillow Books / William Morrow	0-06-029884-7	$16.95^?$: US dollar. ISO code: USD	327	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	novel
A Tale of Time City	2010-05-00	Diana Wynne Jones	HarperCollins Children's Books	978-0-00-675520-3	£6.99^?£: UK pound. ISO code: GBP	362	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	novel	Duncan Smith
A Tale of Time City	2012-04-12	Diana Wynne Jones	Firebird	978-0-14-242015-7	$9.99^?$: US dollar. ISO code: USD	xvi+ 334	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	novel	Tony Sahara
A Tale of Time City	2012-04-12	Diana Wynne Jones	Firebird	978-1-101-56700-5	$9.99^?$: US dollar. ISO code: USD		ebook^?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF.	novel	Tony Sahara
A Tale of Time City	2012-12-06	Diana Wynne Jones	HarperCollins Children's Books	978-0-00-743970-6	£2.40^?£: UK pound. ISO code: GBP		ebook^?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF.	novel	Duncan Smith
Diana Wynne Jones's Fantastical Journeys Collection	2015-01-01	Diana Wynne Jones, Ursula Jones	HarperCollins Children's Books	978-0-00-812739-8	£10.49^?£: UK pound. ISO code: GBP		ebook^?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF.	omni
La città del tempo	2015-12-03	Diana Wynne Jones	Kappalab	978-88-98002-82-5	€15.00^?€: Euro. ISO code: EUR	288	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	novel
La Cité du Temps	2022-09-21	Diana Wynne Jones	Ynnis Edition	978-2-37697-329-4	€19.95^?€: Euro. ISO code: EUR	492	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	novel	Nadou
La Cité du Temps	2022-09-21	Diana Wynne Jones	Ynnis Edition		€11.99^?€: Euro. ISO code: EUR		ebook^?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF.	novel	Nadou

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Reviews

Review by Tom Whitmore (1987) in Locus, #323 December 1987
Review by Helen McNabb (1988) in Vector 142
Review by Phyllis McDonald (1988) in Interzone, #25 September-October 1988
Review by Andy Sawyer (1989) in Paperback Inferno, #78
Review by Baird Searles (1989) in Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, Mid-December 1989
Review by Orson Scott Card (1992) in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, February 1992