Peter Dickinson

Peter (Malcolm de Brissac) Dickinson (born December 16, 1927) is an English author who has written a wide variety of books over a long and distinguished career.

Dickinson was born in Africa, but his parents moved back to England so that he and his brothers could attend English schools.

Dickinson has written almost fifty books, which fall into three general categories: mysteries for adults (including the James Pibble series); novels for younger readers (many of which have a fantastic or supernatural element); and a few simpler children's books.

He was awarded the Whitbread prize for best children's book in 1979 for Tulku and the Crime Writers' Association's Gold Dagger award in 1968 for Skin Deep. His three early books, The Weathermonger, Heartsease and The Devil's Children make up the Changes Trilogy, which was adapted (with many changes) into the BBC TV series The Changes in 1975. The trilogy was written in reverse order; The Devil's Children is actually the first book in terms of the trilogy's chronology, Heartsease the second, and The Weathermonger the third.

He is married to the novelist Robin McKinley.

Bibliography

• The Glass-Sided Ants' Nest (apa Skin Deep) (1968) #
• The Weathermonger (1968)
• The Old English Peep-Show (apa A Pride of Heroes) (1969) #
• Heartsease (1969)
• The Sinful Stones (apa The Seals) (1970) #
• The Devil's Children (1970)
• Emma Tupper's Diary (1970)
• Sleep and His Brother (1971) #
• The Lizard in the Cup (1972) #
• The Dancing Bear (1972)
• The Green Gene (1973)
• The Gift (1973)
• The Iron Lion (1973)
• The Poison Oracle (1974)
• The Lively Dead (1975)
• Chance, Luck and Destiny (1975) (nonfiction about probability and coincidence)
• The Blue Hawk (1975)
• King and Joker (1976)
• Walking Dead (1977)
• Annerton Pit (1977)
• Hepzibah (1978)
• One Foot in the Grave (1979) #
• The Flight of Dragons (1979)
• Tulku (1979)
• City of Gold (1980)
• A Summer in the Twenties (1981)
• The Seventh Raven (1981)
• The Last House party (1982)
• Hind sight (1983)
• Healer (1983)
• Death of a Unicorn (1984)
• Giant Cold (1984)
• Tefuga (1985)
• A Box of Nothing (1985)
• Perfect Gallows (1987)
• Mole Hole (1987)
• Eva (1988)
• Merlin Dreams (1988)
• Skeleton-in-Waiting (1989)
• AK (1990)
• Play Dead (1992)
• A Bone from a Dry Sea (1992)
• Shadow of a Hero (1993)
• Time and the Clock Mice, Etcetera (1993)
• The Yellow Room Conspiracy (1994)
• Chuck and Danielle (1996)
• The Kin (1998) (apa four-volume series: Suth's Story, Noli's Story, Po's Story, and Mana's Story)
• Some Deaths Before Dying (1999)
• Touch and Go (1999)
• The Lion Tamer's Daughter (1999)
• The Ropemaker (2001)
• Water: Tales of the Elemental Spirits (With Robin McKinley) (apa Elementals: Water) (2002)
• The Tears of the Salamander (2003)
• Inside Grandad (2004) (apa The Gift Boat)
• Angel Isle, a sequel to The Ropemaker (2006)

# James Pibble series

External link

• Peter Dickinson's Website