Best Selling Books by Peter Dickinson

Mana and the other Kin, a band of people living in prehistoric times, search for food on the edge of a great marsh and fight a new enemy, the dangerous killers whom they name the demon men.

Six fabulous tales - vividly imagined and powerfully told.The shriek of the wind, calling the waters to rebel - and a silver man from the sea with a voice like the roar of a seashell . . .A long-told story of the sea people and their song - and a golden eye, glittering in a pool at the edge of a desert . . .A ferocious serpent, its body as think as the trunk of a huge tree - and the immense, unknowable Kraken, dark beyond black, cold beyond ice, waking on the ocean floor . . .Immerse yourself in this mesmorising collection of short stories inspired buy the element of Water - and be swept away by the supurb storytelling skills of two major award-winning authors.

A retelling of 32 Old Testament narratives.

A Greek slave, his dancing bear, and an old holy man journey from Byzantium to rescue the slave''s young mistress from the Huns.

Forty years after the last of the Countess of Snailwood''s fashionable political house parties, a move to repair her fantastic clock reconnects the sole survivor of those waltz-filled weekends with newly perceived, tragic events and people

After the man in the closed, empty shop gives James a box of nothing, he finds himself in the Dump, a bizarre world filled with strangely altered rubbish and large intelligent rats.

Spending the last night on a holiday island, a boy dreams that the Giant Cold (Gigante di Neve) reduces the tropical retreat to a frozen wasteland and that he is the only one who can restore the warmth.

Mana and the other Kin, a band of people living in prehistoric times, search for food on the edge of a great marsh and fight a new enemy, the dangerous killers whom they name the demon men.