Peter Dickinson, Author . Random/Lamb $16.95 (197p) ISBN 978-0-385-73098-3
Burning questions—about the twin influences of nature and nurture, the true meaning of family, and the possibility of guiding one's fate, to name a few—blaze below the surface of Dickinson's (The Ropemaker; A Bone from a Dry...
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Peter Dickinson, Author Putnam Publishing Group $24.99 (640p) ISBN 978-0-399-24022-5
Favorite fiction returns in volumes designed to attract new readers. Master storyteller Peter Dickinson's tale of The Kin, set in Africa 200,000 years ago, reexamines themes he explored in A Bone from a Dry Sea. One impressive volume gathers the...
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Peter Dickinson, Author Firebird $8.99 (628p) ISBN 978-0-14-250120-7
Favorite fiction returns in volumes designed to attract new readers. Master storyteller Peter Dickinson's tale of The Kin, set in Africa 200,000 years ago, reexamines themes he explored in A Bone from a Dry Sea. One impressive volume gathers the...
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Peter Dickinson, Author Mysterious Press $18.95 (261p) ISBN 978-0-89296-556-4
The yellow room was one of about 50 in Blatchards, an old mansion near Bury St. Edmonds. Owned by Lord Vereker, Blatchards was dominated by his five striking daughters whose politics and personal lives in the 1930s and '40s are at the heart of...
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Peter Dickinson, Author Mysterious Press $17.95 (282p) ISBN 978-0-89296-478-9
Like music lovers listening to a favorite piece conducted by a master, mystery fans will relish Dickinson's ( Skin Deep ) complicated puzzler with its beautifully realized cast. Poppy Tasker, a game and warm-hearted 50-year-old divorcee searching...
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Peter Dickinson, Author Delacorte Press $14.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-440-50129-9
Following a terrible car crash, Eva, 14, awakens from a strange dream and finds herself in a hospital bed. Medical science, in this book's future setting, has allowed doctors to pull her functioning brain from her crushed body and put it into the...
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Peter Dickinson, Author Delacorte Press Books for Young Readers $14.95 (110p) ISBN 978-0-385-29664-9
One morning, James ducks into an empty store, the one he's always called the Nothing Shop, and buys a box of quality Nothing for zero cents. He thinks the dusty shopkeeper is just playing word games, but when he discovers how the town dump and its...
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Peter Dickinson, Author Pantheon Books $14.95 (255p) ISBN 978-0-394-55180-7
Sixty years after his mother, Betty Jackland, came from England to tribal, backwater, colonial Nigeria to marry his district-officer father, Ted arrives to make a documentary film based on her diary. Its pages recreate that time in detailthe life of
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Peter Dickinson, Author Laurel Leaf Library $4.99 (304p) ISBN 978-0-440-22690-1
Four stylized short stories play with parallel worlds and mystical forces. ""Meticulously structured plots and complex symbolism are typical of this author,"" noted PW. Ages 12-up. (June)
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Peter Dickinson, Author Delacorte Press $15.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-385-32327-7
Parallel worlds, magical mirrors and doppelgangers of one sort or another are among the recurring motifs in these four highly stylized stories from English author Dickinson (Shadow of a Hero; A Bone from a Dry Sea). Mystical forces unleashed during...
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Peter Dickinson, Author Laurel Leaf Library $3.99 (176p) ISBN 978-0-440-21913-2
Davy Price has inherited ""the gift""-the ability to see what others are thinking-and through it learns that his family is in danger. Ages 12-up. (Nov.)
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Peter Dickinson, Author Warner Books $4.99 (0p) ISBN 978-0-446-40112-8
The complicated puzzler Play Dead 's beautifully realized cast features English divorcee Poppy Tasker, drawn into international intrigue while baby-sitting her grandchild; also in March, Mysterious will re-release Dickinson's King & Joker , a...
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Peter Dickinson, Author Delacorte Press Books for Young Readers $16 (199p) ISBN 978-0-385-30821-2
In his latest novel, Dickinson tells of two girls whose lives are linked, though they are born more than two million years apart. Along with its dual heroines, this tale has two objectives: one is to entertain, and the other is to elaborate on a...
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Peter Dickinson, Author Pantheon Books $16.95 (154p) ISBN 978-0-394-58002-9
The sequel to Dickinson's King and Joker brings readers back into the lives of his fictional but convincing British royal family during a crucial period: October 1987 through September 1988. The focus is on Princess Louise, her husband Piers...
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Peter Dickinson, Author Mysterious Press $27 (256p) ISBN 978-0-89296-696-7
His first mystery in five years gives ample evidence that Dickinson, an award-winning storyteller whose first novel was published in 1968, can still entrance readers with superbly drawn tales. He knows how to construct an atmospheric English country
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Peter Dickinson, Author Laurel Leaf Library $6.5 (208p) ISBN 978-0-440-21928-6
PW's starred review commended the ``gripping'' narrative, in which scientific speculation, a feminist slant and a school of helpful dolphins coalesce in the tales of dual heroines born more than two million years apart. Ages 12-up. (June)
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Peter Dickinson, Author . Random/Lamb $7.95 (197p) ISBN 978-0-440-23823-2
In a starred review, PW
wrote, "Burning questions—about the twin influences of nature and nurture, the true meaning of family, and the possibility of guiding one's fate, to name a few—blaze below the surface of this engrossing,
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Peter Dickinson, Author . Random/Lamb $15.95 (128p) ISBN 978-0-385-74641-0
Magic hovers just beneath the surface of Dickinson's (The Ropemaker
) lyrical tale. Grandad is young Gavin's dear friend and confidante —his father is away at sea, his mother and grandmother are too often at work. The boy and his...
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Like his stellar novels Shadow of a Hero
and Bone from a Dry Sea, Dickinson's latest offering moves from the mythic to the particular and back again, making clear the ways in which an individual's extraordinary experience could metamorphose
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Peter Dickinson, Author, Peter Dickerson, Author Delacorte Press Books for Young Readers $15.95 (294p) ISBN 978-0-385-32110-5
In the tradition of his AK and The Seventh Raven, Dickinson's spine-tingling, heart-stopping new work provides a glimpse of the elusive, unsettling and highly personal truths that often lurk behind terse political headlines. Descended from two...
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Peter Dickinson, Author, Emma Chichester Clark, Illustrator, Emma Chickester-Clark, Illustrator Delacorte Press Books for Young Readers $16.95 (127p) ISBN 978-0-385-32038-2
Evolution, the development and nature of language, and the concept of time are themes that have appeared again and again in Dickinson's ( Eva ; A Bone From a Dry Sea ) sophisticated YA novels and adult mysteries. Once again he tackles these topics,...
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Peter Dickinson, Author, Paul Dickerson, Author Delacorte Press Books for Young Readers $15 (229p) ISBN 978-0-385-30608-9
Paul, 12, remembers no other life than his nomadic existence as a Warrior--a junior member of a guerilla band fighting a civil war against the corrupt government of Nagala, a fictional African nation. When peace is declared, Paul's mentor, Michael,...
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Peter Dickinson, Author, Nenad Jakesevic, Illustrator Grosset & Dunlap $14.99 (160p) ISBN 978-0-399-23327-2
In this thought-provoking prehistoric adventure tale, part of a new series, Dickinson considers evolution, revisiting themes he explored in A Bone from a Dry Sea. Separated from the elders of the Moonhawk clan after an attack by a horde of ""ferociou
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Peter Dickinson, Author, Nenad Jakesevic, Illustrator Grosset & Dunlap $3.99 (224p) ISBN 978-0-448-41710-3
In this thought-provoking prehistoric adventure tale, part of a new series, Dickinson considers evolution, revisiting themes he explored in A Bone from a Dry Sea. Separated from the elders of the Moonhawk clan after an attack by a horde of ""ferociou
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Peter Dickinson, Author, Nenad Jakesevic, Illustrator Grosset & Dunlap $14.99 (224p) ISBN 978-0-399-23328-9
In this thought-provoking prehistoric adventure tale, part of a new series, Dickinson considers evolution, revisiting themes he explored in A Bone from a Dry Sea. Separated from the elders of the Moonhawk clan after an attack by a horde of ""ferociou
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Peter Dickinson, Author, Ian Andrew, Illustrator . Random/Lamb $17.99 (500p) ISBN 978-0-385-74690-8
For the right reader—one who is able and willing to fall in with its stately pace—this novel marks a welcome return to the lavishly imagined lands Dickinson first mapped in The Ropemaker
. Twenty generations have passed and once again...
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Peter Dickinson. Small Beer Press/Big Mouth House (Consortium, dist.), $17.95 (256p) ISBN 978-1-61873-038-1
Dickinson, a two-time Carnegie Medal winner, continues his series of short story collections based on the four elements; the two previous volumes were coauthored with his wife, Robin McKinley. Many of the six tales within are drawn from mythology....
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