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    Peter Dickinson: Words and Music

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    Articles, tributes and reminiscences of composer, pianist and author Peter Dickinson are here brought together for the first time.

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    My Vancouver Dance History: Story, Movement, Community

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    A compelling personal account of the artists and works that have established Vancouver as a dance-making capital.

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    My Vancouver Dance History: Story, Movement, Community

    Peter Dickinson

    A compelling personal account of the artists and works that have established Vancouver as a dance-making capital.

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    King and Joker: A Crime Novel

    Peter Dickinson

    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…

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    Skeleton-in-Waiting: A Crime Novel

    Peter Dickinson

    Britain’s alternative Royal Family, who first appeared in King and Joker , are here involved in intrigues which hark back to the days of the Russian Revolution. Peter Dickinson won…

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    Hindsight: A Crime Novel

    Peter Dickinson

    In this brilliant crime novel by CWA Gold Dagger winner Peter Dickinson, a writer looks back on his past and discovers the memory of a murder that needs to be…

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    Play Dead: A Crime Novel

    Peter Dickinson

    As Poppy sits minding her grandson in the Rattigan Park play centre, she observes a man staring intently at the child. Is it the same man who has been watching…

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    The Glass-Sided Ants’ Nest

    Peter Dickinson

    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…

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    The Old English Peep Show

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    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…

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    The Sinful Stones

    Peter Dickinson

    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…

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    Sleep and His Brother

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    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

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    The Lizard in the Cup

    Peter Dickinson

    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

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    One Foot in the Grave

    Peter Dickinson

    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…

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    Tefuga: A Novel of Suspense

    Peter Dickinson

    The break-out book for the master of the literate thriller (Boston Globe) Peter Dickinson, praised as a superlative novel, more than just a novel of suspense.

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    A Bone from a Dry Sea

    Peter Dickinson

    In two parallel stories, a young female member of a prehistoric tribe becomes instrumental in advancing her people, and a present-day girl visits her paleontologist father on a dig in…

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    Annerton Pit

    Peter Dickinson

    When Martin and Jake’s grandfather fails to return from a ghost-hunting expedition, the boys set off for Newcastle in search of him. Their investigations take them to Annerton Pit, where…

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    A Box of Nothing

    Peter Dickinson

    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…

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    The Lion Tamer’s Daughter: And Other Stories

    Peter Dickinson

    These haunting tales take as their theme the concept of kindred personalities reaching out across time and space to help each other. The stories include The Spring , Touch and…

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    The Gift

    Peter Dickinson

    Fifteen-year-old Davy Price has the gift–the ability to see into other people’s minds. Sometimes he feels having this gift is fun, but most of the time it’s frightening. Especially when…

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    In the Palace of the Khans

    Peter Dickinson

    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…

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    Shadow of a Hero

    Peter Dickinson

    In 1989, Letta, an English teenager, learns of her heritage from her grandfather, great-grandson of the legendary hero of Varina, as he becomes involved in the nationalistic political struggles in…

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    The Blue Hawk

    Peter Dickinson

    From the moment Tron touches the hawk - the sacrificial hawk only he may carry on his wrist - it appears that the destiny of a nation is woven into…

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    Chuck and Danielle

    Peter Dickinson

    Chuck is a whippet who is scared of everything: paper bags, pigeons, supermarket trolleys and even little fluffy cats! But Danielle loves her scaredy-cat whippet and knows that there’s more…

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    CageTalk: Dialogues with and about John Cage

    Revealing unpublished interviews with John Cage and some of his closest colleagues, including Virgil Thomson, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Pauline Oliveros, Merce Cunningham, and David Tudor.

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    The Poison Oracle

    Peter Dickinson

    A sheikh funds a psycholinguist’s research into the language abilities of a chimp. A chimp who then witnesses a murder.

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    The Lively Dead: A Crime Novel

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    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…

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    Death of a Unicorn

    Peter Dickinson

    A successful romance novelist answers the phone and a tragic death from thirty years before is cast in new light.

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    Emma Tupper’s Diary

    Peter Dickinson

    A girl helps her family dig up their old minisubmarine and pretends to be a monster in a Scottish loch.

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    Llangollen Railway: Visitor Guide

    The Llangollen Railway is a full-sized standard-gauge line running regular steam-hauled passenger trains, used by visitors, tourists and enthusiasts alike, between Llangollen and Corwen. The line is the only standard-gauge…

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    Eva

    Peter Dickinson

    The picnic on the beach is Eva’s last memory. As she lies in the hospital bed while her mother explains about the accident and the coma, Eva senses there is…

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    Some Deaths Before Dying

    Peter Dickinson

    From the author of Skeleton-In-Waiting and The Yellow Room Conspiracy. On her deathbed, an old woman rakes through the years of her life to attempt to learn the truth about…

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    In the Palace of the Khans

    Peter Dickinson

    A thrilling new adventure for young adults by internationally celebrated and prizewinning author, Peter Dickinson. Nigel’s father is the British ambassador in Dirzhan, a small country up among the mountains…

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    Some Deaths Before Dying

    Peter Dickinson

    Paralyzed by a debilitating illness, 90-year-old Rachel Matson finds herself confronted by a disturbing mystery–one that begins when a 19th-century pistol that belonged to her husband pops up on Antiques…

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    A Summer in the Twenties

    Peter Dickinson

    A young man has to choose who to love, who to leave in the 1926 General Strike in Britain.

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    Screening Gender, Framing Genre: Canadian Literature into Film

    Peter Dickinson

    Dickinson has written a lively and engaging study that is sure to resonate with readers curious about the intersection of Canadian cultural production and broader issues of gender and national…

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    The Yellow Room Conspiracy: A Crime Novel

    Peter Dickinson

    Gerry falls in love with Nancy, and his brother, Paul, falls for her sister, Lucy. Both women marry others, but they are destined to come together. Nancy asks Gerry to…

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    Walking Dead: A Crime Novel

    Peter Dickinson

    Research scientist David Foxe is sent to place where the Prime Minister is a despot and his mother a witch. He is forced to wake up and soon he is…

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    The Kin

    Peter Dickinson

    The adventures of four children from the Moonhawk Kin are told in the four linked books that make up this novel. Suth, Noli, Ko and Mana survive volcanic eruption, earthquake…

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    Bernarr Rainbow on Music: Memoirs and Selected Writings

    A memoir by the renowned historian of music education, Bernarr Rainbow, including a selection of his writings and a biographical introduction by Peter Dickinson.

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    Lennox Berkeley and Friends: Writings, Letters and Interviews

    A novel approach to biography, drawing on interview material and other sources, all extensively annotated.

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    Music Education in Crisis: The Bernarr Rainbow Lectures and Other Assessments

    Seminal lectures on music education since the 1990s.

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    Samuel Barber Remembered: A Centenary Tribute

    Peter Dickinson

    Compulsively readable interviews with the great American composer and his friends and colleagues, including Aaron Copland, Virgil Thomson, and Leontyne Price.

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    World Stages, Local Audiences: Essays on Performance, Place and Politics

    Peter Dickinson

    This book argues that local performance events offer a way to read the world, and an opportunity to remake that world, helping to foster a global political consciousness. Surveying a…

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    Perfect Gallows: A Crime Novel

    Peter Dickinson

    Within the structure of the classic detective story, this novel tells of a man from the back streets of Southampton who is considered as heir of a house and fortune…

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    The Changes Trilogy: The Devil’s Children, Heartsease, and the Weathermonger

    Peter Dickinson

    Three dystopian novels by an award-winning author that imagine a world where humankind has suddenly and violently rejected modern technology. Something has gone very wrong in England. In a tunnel…

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    Earth and Air: Tales of Elemental Creatures

    Peter Dickinson

    Six new earthbound and airy stories from a two-time winner of both the Carnegie Medal and Whitbread Award.

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    The Llangollen Railway: Country Walks from our stations

    This handy guide has walks of varying lengths and levels from simple strolls to more challenging rambles. All feature the varied and beautiful scenery the Dee Valley has to offer.

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    AK

    Peter Dickinson

    Winner of the Whitbread Award for best children’s novel.

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