Born in Zambia in 1927, Peter Dickinson spent his childhood in Gloucestershire and was educated at Eton and Cambridge, where he read English. Before writing full-time, he worked in various capacities on Punch Magazine, where he reviewed detective novels. His own first two detective novels, SKIN DEEP and A PRIDE OF HEROES, set a still unsurpassed record by winning the Crime Writers' Golden Dagger in successive years. His novels include THE YELLOW ROOM CONSPIRACY; PLAY DEAD; PERFECT GALLOWS and SKELETON-IN-WAITING.

Peter Dickinson is one of the UK’s most acclaimed children’s writers. He has won the Carnegie Medal twice, for CITY OF GOLD and TULKU, the Whitbread Children’s Award twice, for AK and TULKU, and the Guardian Children’s Fiction Award for THE BLUE HAWK. He is the author of many books for children, teenagers and adults, including THE KIN, his first book for Macmillan, which was shortlisted for the Carnegie Award in 1999. He was shortlisted for the International Hans Christian Anderson Award in 2000. His latest book for children is ANGEL ISLE.

The Independent recently reported: 'If you took a poll to find the greatest living children's author, the result would be tediously predictable. Potter trumps all. But if you awarded points for originality, intelligence, clarity of style, emotional depth, and sheer range, there is not much doubt that the winner would be Peter Dickinson.’

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