Питер Дикинсон – лучшие книги

Вот уже двадцать поколений жители Долины не знают бед и тревог. Густой лес хранит их от набегов алчного Императора, а высокие горы непоколебимо стоят на пути орд кочевников. Но добрая магия слабеет, и если срочно не найти волшебника Фахиля, придет конец мирной жизни Долины. Тогда за помощью к Фахилю отправляется девочка Тилья с бабушкой Миной и мальчик Таль с дедушкой Альнором. Удастся ли им отыскать загадочного волшебника и кто такой этот Веревочник, неожиданно встретившийся им на их длинном и опасном пути, кто он - друг или враг?

Однообразный и спокойный быт приморской деревни нарушает кораблекрушение. В живых осталась только одна девочка, которую загадочным образом пощадили волны. Прошло много-много лет...

Мальчик по имени Трон растет без отца и матери. Избранный для служения птицеголовому богу Гду, он воспитывается в Храме и, подобно всем остальным его обитателям, изо дня в день исполняет бесконечные гимны и совершает бесчисленные ритуалы. Вся жизнь юного жреца расписана наперед, и уклониться от заведенного порядка вещей ему никак невозможно.

Но однажды Трон решается на поступок почти немыслимый. Сам до конца не понимая, что им движет, он срывает один из важнейших ритуалов - жертвоприношение Голубого Ястреба. Мальчик даже представить себе не мог, какие последствия повлечет за собой спасение птицы и чем это обернется для него, для Храма и для всего Царства. Впереди Трона ждут бегство, плен и освобождение, встреча с Царем и страшное путешествие по Великой реке - туда, где неизменно завершают свой путь поколения и поколения местных правителей.

Английский писатель Питер Дикинсон (1927-2015), обладатель двух медалей Карнеги, известен у нас в основном по роману "Веревочник", однако его творчество гораздо обширней и разнообразней. "Голубой Ястреб" принадлежит к числу его лучших книг; в 1977 году роман был удостоен премии "Гардиан", присуждаемой за произведения для детей и подростков.

Спекулятивная естественно-историческая книга о драконах.

A London woman taking her grandson to the park finds her lonely life disrupted by murder in this award-winning author’s “gripping thriller” (Reginald Hill).

Poppy Tasker never imagined this would be her life at age fifty: divorced, living alone, and stuck caring for a tiny grandson while his mother is busy seeking public office. Sad and resentful, Poppy feels completely detached from the nannies she’s now forced to associate with when she brings little Toby to the park to play. But her discomfort is replaced by a creeping dread when she notices a stranger watching her and the boy a bit too closely—and her fear turns to near panic when the man tries to follow them home.

The following day, the stalker is found murdered in the park, his corpse decorated in an odd and troubling manner. Poppy’s terror grows as she realizes that she and her innocent grandson have become entangled in something twisted and very dangerous. Then the nanny of one of Toby’s playground friends meets an untimely end—and Poppy realizes that this may only be the beginning.

One of the true greats of contemporary British crime fiction, Peter Dickinson is often compared to luminaries including Ruth Rendell, Peter Lovesey, P. D. James, and Reginald Hill. Play Dead is a shining example of his storytelling artistry.

An aging aristocrat on her deathbed and her longtime devoted lover explore the dark events of their shared past in hopes of uncovering a tragic, elusive truth in this masterfully evocative British mystery from CWA Gold Dagger winner Peter Dickinson Lady Lucy Vereker Seddon is dying of a terminal illness when something she hears on the radio reminds her of her younger, darker days and inspires her to question her dearest friend and former lover, Paul Ackerley, about his role in a series of past family tragedies. There was the strange death of Lucy's brother-in-law, the brute Gerry Grantworth, in the Yellow Room of Blatchards-the huge and…

Book DescriptionAlfredo, a choir boy in 18th-century Italy, loses his family in a fire, and his mysterious Uncle Giorgio spirits him away to their ancestral home below a volcano. There he learns that Uncle Giorgio is the Master of the Mountain; he

It is two hundred thousand years ago. A small group of children are cut off from their Kin, the Moonhawks, when they are driven from their "Good Place" by violent strangers. While searching for a new Good Place, they face the parched desert, an active volcano, a canyon flood, man-eating lions, and other Kins they've never seen before. Told from four points of view, with tales of the Kins' creation interspersed throughout, this epic novel humanizes early man and illuminates the beginning of language, the development of skills, and the organization of society. It is a triumphant book from one of the genre's most revered authors.

Book DescriptionSir Lennox Berkeley (1903-1989) was one of the leading British composers of the mid-twentieth century and his music has unique qualities which will ensure its survival far beyond transient fashions. Peter Dickinson knew Berkeley for

AK depicts the horrible story of child warriors in Africa. Paul was a homeless orphan boy when guerilla soldiers found him wandering in the bush. The soldiers taught him to carry a gun, an old AK, and become a “Warrior” — someone to prepare meals for a soldier “uncle,” serve as a sentry or act as a decoy in ambushes. When the war ends, Paul’s uncle, Michael, declares that the boy is to be his adopted son. It will be Paul’s job to get an education, learn English and study the country’s dominant cultures. All arms are to be turned in to the government, but Paul buries his AK in a secret place.

Paul is learning the Fulu language in a settlement away from Dangoum, the capital city, when word comes that there has been a coup. Along with a couple of the other boy Warriors and Jilli, the young girl teaching him Fulu, Paul strikes out for Dangoum where he is certain his uncle’s life is in danger. It is a route that will take him past the spot where the AK is buried, and Paul knows the time has come to dig it up.

Written at an average reading level with graphic depictions of war, the story presents two possible results of the violence — one showing a positive direction; one locked into the bleak recurrence of strife and warfare — and challenges the citizens of today to effect a change for the better.

An attack in the dark, screams, burning huts... Thirteen-year-old Theodore crouches under the trees. His father's Mission has been destroyed. His father is dead. Theodore is on his own, fleeing the Chinese rebels of the Boxer uprising. Then Mrs Jones appears. A botanist, Mrs Jones is a feisty, aging, good-hearted woman who has an amazing (and eye-opening) vocabulary and who adopts Theodore into her band of travellers. Fleeing bandits, the group enters Tibet, where they meet the old Lama who rules a monastery. But when the Lama says they have been drawn to him by destiny, and insists that Theodore, Mrs Jones, and her young Chinese…

In this bizarre thriller set in an Arab emirate, an English scientist is trying to teach a chimpanzee to communicate. But when the chimp is the sole witness to a murder, giving evidence strains its new skill to the limit.

A elegant satire of British national myth. *Winner of Britain's CWA Gold Dagger award for Best Crime Novel of the Year. *Complex and deeply ironic, the perfect commendation for readers who disdain genre fiction. *Multi-award-winning author, with significant cult following No on-stage sex or violence. *Will appeal to Anglophiles and fans of PBS's Mystery program. *Read this tale carefully. It's a jewel. - New York Times *For the choicest of mystery confections, try The Old English Peep Show - Chicago Tribune *This is a bit crazy, harrowingly suspenseful, surprising...altogether, not to be missed - San Francisco Chronicle

CWA Gold Dagger winner Peter Dickinson is back: Now-retired Scotland Yard superintendent James Pibble isn’t about to go quietly into the night—not when there’s a murder case or two (or three) to solve

At Flycatchers, a well-to-do nursing home watched over by no-nonsense nurse Jenny, one-time detective James Pibble shuttles between his nothing-to-live-for present and memories of the crimes he’s solved—or failed to. He’s roused from his listless existence when he discovers a dead body on top of the water tower.

Security guard George Tosca isn’t the only one at Flycatchers who has met his maker a bit too abruptly. There have been other suspicious deaths in the last three years, including those of military man Sir Archibald Gunter and Bertie Foster-Banks, an inveterate gambler and shareholder in the home. The arrival of a woman in black sets off a sinister chain of events, and before he knows it, Pibble is on the case.

As he travels down a twisting path of blackmail and escalating violence, Pibble finds that his life is suddenly filled with purpose again. He will bring a cunning killer to justice—or die trying. But the real reason he went up to the tower on that stormy winter night is linked to a secret he’ll carry to his grave.

Dr. P. P. Humayan expects prejudice from the English. Growing up in Bombay, he was raised on stories of the injustices of life in Britain, where racial status is marked on one’s papers and anyone of Celtic descent is born with green skin and forced to live in walled-off ghettos. But when he travels to London to announce that he has solved the genetic mystery of why the Celts are born green, he is shocked by the system’s brutality. Only one English girl is kind to him—and she will soon find herself in mortal peril.

When his host family is murdered, Humayan slips underground, joining a small band of rebels who would do anything to see racial equality restored to England. There are powerful men working to maintain the sinister status quo, and bringing them down will be the toughest problem this mathematician has ever faced.

Pibble investigates the death of the chief of a New Guinean tribe which has been transplanted to a hideous Victorian rowhouse in London by the granddaughter of the builder, who was adopted into the tribe.

THIRTEEN-YEAR OLD EVA wakes up in the hospital unable to remember anything since the picnic on the beach. Her mother leans over the bed and begins to explain. A traffic accident, a long coma . . .

But there is something, Eva senses, that she’s not being told. There is a price she must pay to be alive at all. What have they done, with their amazing medical techniques, to save her?

In a bungled attempt to kidnap an ambassador's son, four revolutionaries make hostages of a hundred children rehearsing an opera.