Peter Dickinson

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  • Bibliography:
    58 Books (3 Series)
  • First Book:
    January 1968
  • Latest Book:
    May 2018
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Full Series List in Order

The Changes Trilogy

1 - Devil's Children (May-1986)

James Pibble

1 - The Glass-sided Ant's Nest (1968)
2 - The Old English Peep Show (1969)
3 - The Sinful Stones (Jun-1970)
4 - Sleep and His Brother (1971)
5 - Lizard in the Cup (1972)
6 - One Foot in the Grave (1979)

Ropemaker

1 - The Ropemaker (Oct-2003)
2 - Angel Isle (Oct-2007)

Multi-Author Series List

Magicquest

5 - Tulku (Feb-1984)

Book List in Order: 58 titles

  • The Glass-sided Ant's Nest

    James Pibble - 1

    Winner of the CWA Gold Dagger: Scotland Yard’s James Pibble puzzles over the murder of a pygmy tribesman in the middle of London in this “first class” mystery (The Times Literary Supplement). Oddball cases are James Pibble’s specialty. But th...

  • The Old English Peep Show

    James Pibble - 2

    Winner of the CWA Gold Dagger for best crime novel of the year: Peter Dickinson targets England’s upper classes in this murderous and strikingly original theme-park mystery Tourists are waiting in line for entry into the world of Old England, a gra...

  • The Sinful Stones

    James Pibble - 3

    Scotland Yard detective James Pibble travels to a remote Scottish island to free an old man from a dangerous cult of self-proclaimed saints and saviors in this mystery by CWA Gold Dagger winner Peter Dickinson Ninety-two-year-old Sir Francis Francis ...

  • Sleep and His Brother

    James Pibble - 4

    A strange malady afflicts the children of McNair House in this British mystery featuring former Scotland Yard superintendent James Pibble, from CWA Gold Dagger winner Peter Dickinson Recently given the sack by Scotland Yard, James Pibble arrives at M...

  • Lizard in the Cup

    James Pibble - 5

    An ex-Scotland Yard superintendent is caught up in an international mystery: “The most original crime novelist to appear for a long, long time.” -- The Guardian The West Indies island of Hog’s Cay is soon to open for tourism, but the money beh...

  • The Green Gene

    • / Science Fiction / Fantasy
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    GREEN IS THE COLOR OF MY TRUE LOVE'S SKIN The Irish were having green-skinned babies, until they all were "wearing of the green" permanently! The Scots kept right up with them and turned green too! And the Welsh, being fellow Celtics, also became ...

  • The Dancing Bear

  • One Foot in the Grave

    James Pibble - 6

    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...

  • A Summer in the Twenties

    "A lovely smooth read." -- The Washington Post"A witty, affectionately nostalgic masterpiece." -- The Columbus Dispatch"As absorbingly readable, as well-written as anything Peter Dickinson has written." -- The Times Literary SupplementPraise for Pete...



  • Poison Oracle

    "I think Peter Dickinson is hands down the best stylist as a writer and the most interesting storyteller in my genre." -- Sara Paretsky, author of BreakdownPraise for The Poison Oracle:"I have no idea if any of this talk and ac-tion is authentic, and...

  • The Last House Party

    In this gripping novel by CWA Gold Dagger winner Peter Dickinson, the survivor of a manor-house crime delves into the past to solve a mystery At the elegant English manor known as Snailwood, tourists come daily to hear decades-old gossip about the s...

  • The Lively Dead

    In this mystery from CWA Gold Dagger winner Peter Dickinson, a landlady discovers a corpse beneath her crowded London boardinghouse A sturdy young woman with a knack for home repair and a practical sense of Marxism, Lydia is renovating her London tow...

  • The Flight of the Dragons

  • The Blue Hawk

    In an ancient kingdom, a boy and his hawk challenge the gods All his life, Tron has been destined to join the priests who rule his strange desert kingdom. When the old king grows sick, a ritual is called for to restore his health: the sacrifice of a ...

  • King and Joker

    In the cavernous halls of Buckingham Palace, a series of pranks lead to murder in this mystery by CWA Gold Dagger winner Peter Dickinson Princess Louise and her father, King Victor II of England, agree that life has become painfully dull. When she’...

  • Hindsight

    A seemingly innocuous inquiry leads a successful novelist to recall longsuppressed childhood memories of "Mad Molly" Benison and the tragedy, trauma, and violent death that happened forty years earlier...

  • Tulku

    Magicquest - 5

    When Theodore’s safe, predictable world is destroyed, his life—and his faith—are in danger

    Thirteen-year-old Theodore has lived in China all his life and never felt terror, until his father’s missionary sett...

  • Death of a Unicorn

    Praise for Peter Dickinson's mysteries:"A literary magician controlling an appar-ently inexhaustible supply of effects." -- Penelope LivelyFor best-selling author Lady Margaret, the past is no longer a pleasant memory. Her first lover's mysterious de...

  • Walking Dead

    This brilliant crime novel by CWA Gold Dagger winner Peter Dickinson is set in the Caribbean, where a researcher becomes trapped like a rodent in a maze When it comes to his rats, David Foxe is an expert. He decides when they eat, when they exercise...



  • Heartsense

  • Tefuga

    In this evocative tale of suspense from CWA Gold Dagger winner Peter Dickinson, a British diplomat’s wife in Nigeria inadvertently precipitates a senseless tragedy, and six decades later, her son becomes caught up in a maelstrom of violent politica...

  • Devil's Children

    The Changes Trilogy - 1

  • The Weathermonger

    "Long-awaited new editions of Peter Dickinson''s cult classicsEngland in the future - but an England that is less rather than more civilised. This is the time of The Changes - a time when people, especially adults, have grown to hate machines and ret...

  • Healer

    To save his friend, a daring young boy infiltrates a healing center If it weren’t for the migraines, Barry would be an ordinary boy. When a crushing headaches strikes him during the school day, he goes to the nurse’s office to beg for aspirin. He...

  • Perfect Gallows

    The twisted circumstances surrounding an unspeakable crime, an old man’s fortune, and a production of Shakespeare’s The Tempest come to light four decades on in this masterful tale of greed, deception, and murder by CWA Gold Dagger winner Peter D...

  • Heartsease

  • Merlin Dreams

  • Eva

    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 b...

  • Skeleton-In-Waiting

    A New York Times Notable Book: CWA Gold Dagger winner Peter Dickinson revisits his alternate British monarchy, ensnaring the imagined royal family in a dark conspiracy of kidnapping, politics, scandal, and murder Britain’s beloved Princess Louise ...



  • The Seventh Raven

    "A Phoenix Award winner from the Children''s Literature Association.This steady, sober hostage story is not quite a thriller . . . but anyone . . . can be engaged by the argument and enveloped in Dickinson''s carefully textured citadel.""- Ki...

  • Play Dead

    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...

  • The Yellow Room Conspiracy

    Wild, handsome Gerry Grantworth died mysteriously in the locked, gas-filled Yellow Room at Blatchards, the famous Vereker mansion. He had been the greatest passion of Lucy, one of the five beautiful Vereker sisters, and the best friend of her lover, ...

  • A Bone from a Dry Sea

    On a prehistoric shore, a young girl fights to help her tribe survive She is at home in the ocean, as comfortable in the water as she is on dry land. The child’s people have made their homes by the bay for as long as anyone can remember, diving for...

  • Chuck and Danielle

    Chuck is Danielle's dog, a whippet who isn't just timid -- she's terrified, convinced that everything is coming to get her. But Danielle's sure that Chuck will save the universe one day. In seven funny stories, Chuck does her best to make Danielle's ...

  • The Lion Tamer's Daughter and Other Stories

    Four powerful stories of adventure and imagination -- in this world and beyond When Keith’s father dies, his mom sells their house and takes Keith with her to live in Scotland. He misses his dad and his home, but most of all he misses Melly, a girl...

  • The Kin

    ONE JOURNEY, FOUR VOICES .. . It is Africa, 200,000 years ago. Six children are cut I off from their family group, the Moonhawk Kin, when they are driven from their home--their Good Places--by violent strangers. Now, alone, living by their wits an...

  • The Flight of Dragons

  • Noli's Story

    Just when her world is rocked by earthquakes and her tribe is stalked by a demonic lion, a prehistoric girl loses her power to contact the spirit of the Moonhawk, which comes to her in her dreams to guide her. Simultaneous....

  • Suth's Story

    When the leader of the Moonhawk Kin, a prehistoric people, leaves four orphans to die, Suth and Noli run away to save them from a rival tribe, a task that requires Suth to make the transition from boy to man. Simultaneous....



  • The Gift

    A boy with psychic powers struggles to save his loved ones When Davy’s mother deserts their family, Davy’s father packs his children into a rickety old car and takes them on a vacation. They drive to their mysterious old grandparents’ house in ...

  • Mana's Story

    The Kin, traveling across a treacherous marsh in search of a new home in prehistoric times, come under attack from ferocious new enemies, and depend on Mana, a gentle young girl, to help them achieve peace. Simultaneous....

  • City of Gold & Other Stories

  • Some Deaths Before Dying

    The New York Times Book Review calls multiple-award winner Peter Dickinson "a stylist of subtle brilliance". Always surprising and incisive, the author of The Yellow Room Conspiracy and dozens of other unique novels returns with his first new book in...

  • The Ropemaker

    Ropemaker - 1

    Tilja has grown up in the peaceful Valley, which is protected from the fearsome Empire by an enchanted forest. But the forest’s power has begun to fade and the Valley is in danger. Tilja is the youngest of four brave souls who venture into the Empi...

  • Inside Grandad

    An unusual and moving story about the magical bond between a boy and his grandfather.Does it just happen that Gavin and Grandad see the seal while they are fishing in the harbor? Just happen that Grandad talks about the selkies, the seal people who c...

  • Angel Isle

    Ropemaker - 2

    ONCE THE 24 MOST powerful magicians in the Empire pledged to use their magic only to protect the people. But the promise that bound them has now corrupted them. They have become a single terrible entity with a limitless desire for domination. Only th...

  • Tears of the Salamander

    Alfredo, 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 can control the vo...

  • Earth and Air

    In these collection, you will find stories that range from the mythic to contemporary fantasy to science fiction. You will find a troll, gryphons, a beloved dog, the Land of the Dead, an owl, a minotaur, and a very alien Cat. Earth and Air is the thi...

  • Shadow Of A Hero

    Letta begins to take an interest in Varina, the tiny Balkan state where her parents grew up. But after the collapse of communism the nation calls for independence, and Letta's enthusiasm for her parent's culture leads her to discover just how fragile...



  • In the Palace of the Khans

    In a far-off kingdom, an English boy befriends the mad ruler’s daughter The Khan of Dirzhan is a monster. Nigel, the son of the English ambassador to a backward Asian country, is transfixed by stories of the Khan’s brutality. It is said that he h...

  • Emma Tupper's Diary

    Emma is spending the summer with her Scottish cousins -- who are wonderful material for her attempt to win the School Prize for most interesting holiday diary. The cousins, lofty Andy, reserved Fiona, and fierce Roddy, are experimenting with their gr...

  • AK

    A war behind him, a child soldier tries to learn the ways of peace Paul remembers nothing from before the conflict. Twelve years old, he is not a child. He is a warrior one of a handful of elite commandos who live only to fight the corrupt government...

  • Annerton Pit

    A blind boy and his brother set out on a motorcycle in search of their ghost-hunting grandfather It all starts with the postman. Jake cannot see the mail, but he is an excellent listener, and he can tell by the sound the mail makes when it hits the f...

  • A Box of Nothing

    For one young boy, a box full of nothing is a ticket to adventure While skipping school, James sees his mother on the street. He ducks inside an abandoned store, where an aged shopkeeper asks what he wants to buy. When James says nothing, the old man...

  • Giant Cold

    Can a child defeat a frozen giant and bring summer back to Apple Island? It's the last night of a family's holiday on a tropical island filled with black beaches, sweetfruit, and red-necked looby birds. Their final adventure is to climb the islan...

  • Time and the Clock Mice, Etcetera

    When the town clock stops, a colony of telepathic mice comes to the rescue Unthinkable! The Branton Town Hall Clock has stopped! The intricately carved turret clock had attracted tourists from all over the world. Every day six small bells would c...

  • The Princess Louise Mysteries

    The Gold Dagger"winning author “outdoes himself” with this pair of “most unusual and original” mysteries set in an alternate twentieth-century British monarchy (Publishers Weekly).   With two CWA Gold Dagger awards for his mystery nove...

  • Pride of Heroes

    • / General Fiction
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Award-Winning Books by Peter Dickinson

Eva
1992 Young Reader's Choice Award -- Grades 9-12
Tulku
1979 Carnegie Medal -- Children's


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Peter Dickinson has published 58 books.

Peter Dickinson does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Princess Louise Mysteries, was published in May 2018.

The first book by Peter Dickinson, The Glass-sided Ant's Nest, was published in January 1968.

Yes. Peter Dickinson has 3 series.
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