Best Selling Books by Peter Dickinson

While visiting her Scottish cousins, Emma becomes involved in a plot to hoax the news media by changing the appearance of an old submarine into a sea monster.

Grandad is the most important person in Gavin''s life. But he is suddenly struck down by a massive stroke and is paralysed. The doctors are not optimistic. Gavin begins a desperate emotional journey, against all the odds, to bring his grandfather back to life.

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.

"A sturdy young woman with a knack for home repair and a practical sense of Marxism, Lydia is renovating her London townhouse while her husband finishes law school. To bring in extra money, she rents her upper floors to the exiled government of Livonia, a Baltic state that was long ago absorbed into the Soviet Union. One day, as Lydia is taking up the floorboards, the Livonians carry a coffin through the house. It bears their housekeeper, who is to be honored with vodka toasts and a solemn funeral. After the ceremony, Lydia returns to her floorboards. Beneath the rotted wood is dirt--and in the dirt, she discovers a corpse that never reached the graveyard"--Publisher marketing.

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.

Sixteen-year-old Geoffrey is the town weathermonger. He can make it storm, freeze or shine, but even this position of power doesn''t protect him from his neighbours'' outrage when they discover him meddling with machines. Condemned as witches, Geoffrey and his sister Sally flee to France - where they discover a land unaffected by The Changes. Armed with new knowledge, they return to England on a secret mission, determined to discover why the country is under this mysterious spell. If they can identify the source of this deadly magic, then perhaps they can find a way to free the people from its destructive influence.

The Kins have been scattered and the old, good ways are gone forever. Only Suth''s skill and courage can save his little band of orphans as he leads them on a desperate journet out of the desert. The discovery of a mysterious, green valley seems to promise safety. But Suth suspects that the unkown Kin who live there could be the most dangerous enemy of all...

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.