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Питер Дикинсон - автор 17 книг. Из известных произведений можно выделить: Веревочник, Песня детей моря, Полёт драконов. Все книги можно читать онлайн и бесплатно скачивать на нашем портале.
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 отыс...
Однообразный и спокойный быт приморской деревни нарушает кораблекрушение. В живых осталась только одна девочка, которую загадочным образом пощадили волны. Прошло много-много лет...
Спекулятивная естественно-историческая книга о драконах.
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 ...
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'...
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.
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.
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 adop...
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 ...
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 Theodor...
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...
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 nannie...
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
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 Empire together to find the mysterious magician who can save the Valley. And much to her amazement, Tilja gradually learns that only she, an ordinary girl w...
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. С...
