The House Without Windows

One of the strangest, most enchanting and mystifying stories I’ve read in recent years … It’s beautiful, bonkers and brimming with the abundance and richness of nature and a life lived with no boundaries. Also Jackie’s intro and illustrations provide a depth and context that only lifts the book and its story higher. – Rob Cowen
… Extraordinary. Deeply weird, beautiful & unsettling. – Robert Macfarlane
The House without Windows is miraculous - a fearless odyssey into a dreamtime of wildness and enchantment. Gloriously illuminated by Jackie Morris’s moving art, this is a work of strange power for our own bewildered times. – Nick Drake
Astonishingly lyrical * The Spectator *

Jackie Morris has written or illustrated over seventy books, including the beloved children’s classics Tell Me a Dragon and East of the Sun, West of the Moon and a volume of modern folklore for readers of all ages, Wild Folk, co-created with Tamsin Abbott, as well as introducing and illustrating Barbara Newhall Follett’s gem of wild literature, The House Without Windows. She is the internationally bestselling and award-winning co-creator of The Lost Words and The Lost Spells, two books which have captured the hearts of hundreds of thousands of readers of all ages. In 2018 she won the Kate Greenaway Medal and the British Book Awards Children’s Book of the Year for The Lost Words. Her artwork is held by public art collections in the UK and USA and has been published in the New Statesman, Independent and Guardian among other venues. She tours and performs with the Spell Songs ensemble around the UK, and is a Fellow of Herefordshire Art College. Morris and Macfarlane’s latest project, The Book of Birds, will be published in May 2026.

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