“The ketch belonged to an angry millionaire, who hadn't been willing to lend it until he received a personal telephone call from… — Peter Dickinson Copy Share Image
“That was the whole trouble with police work. You come plunging in. a jagged Stone Age knife, to probe the delicate tissues… — Peter Dickinson Another day Copy Share Image
“She left them before Bagwy Llydiart, in midsentence. Geoffery and Sally got the subject and verb, and the girl who opened the… — Peter Dickinson Copy Share Image
“They had fallen into that instant, easy friendship which feels as though it had begun before any of your memories and will… — Peter Dickinson Easy friendship Copy Share Image
“The General was using the telephone, forcing his fierce personality along the wires to bully disbelieving clerks at the far end.” — Peter Dickinson Copy Share Image
“When the weatherman spoke he did so in smooth, rolling clauses, full of long words such as schoolmasters use when they are… — Peter Dickinson Cotton candy Copy Share Image
“...otherwise it was barren as a desert, just long dunes of brick and cement and slate and asphalt.” — Peter Dickinson Copy Share Image
