Jacqueline West

Things turn strange when Olive discovers some old spectacles with magic powers when going through Ms. McMartin's items. When Olive puts the glasses on, she is able to see through old portraits, and the paintings lining her new home come to life. It is through the spectacles that Olive meets Morton, an undersized boy with a temper bigger than his size.

The best place to start is The Books of Elsewhere series, the earliest of Jacqueline West's multi-book series: it opens with The Shadows (2010) and runs to 5 books across 2010–2014, ending with Still Life (2014). Jacqueline West's other series stand alone, so they can be read in any order.

Jacqueline West has 25 books catalogued in this guide, published between 2006 and 2026. 10 of them belong to 3 named series — the largest being The Books of Elsewhere series with 5 books — and 15 are standalone titles, collections or anthologies.

Read each series in publication order — the numbered entries in each series follow the year each book first appeared. Jacqueline West's series do not depend on one another, so they can be started in any order; by start date they are The Books of Elsewhere (2010–2014, 5 books), The Story Pirates Present (2018–2020, 3 books) and The Collectors (2018–2019, 2 books).

This guide splits Jacqueline West's 25 books into 3 named series and 15 titles that stand alone or appear only in collections: The Books of Elsewhere (5 books, 2010–2014); The Story Pirates Present (3 books, 2018–2020); The Collectors (2 books, 2018–2019).