Background
Dickinson is the eldest son of author Peter Dickinson and Mary Rose Barnard.
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The final novel in this compelling trilogy set in a medieval fantasy world. Atti is the Fatal Child. Beautiful and adored, she is troubled by a recurring nightmare of violence and betrayal. She can love no one and trust no one, and she wakes screaming in the night. Driven by his love for Atti, Ambrose, son of Phaedra, gives up his wandering existence and takes the throne. This is the story of his kingship and his attempts to remove the curse of Beyah, the weeping goddess, from his land. For while Beyah weeps, she poisons hearts, and only when the weeping stops can peace be restored to the kingdom. Seen through the eyes of Padry, close advisor to the king, and of Melissa, maid to the queen, this is a passionate story of love and betrayal, power and sacrifice, hope and loss. Prophecies are fulfilled and story threads are concluded as Ambrose and his mother struggle to come to terms with their destinies. From the Hardcover edition.
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This stunning book opens 12 years after the end of The Cup of the World and tells the story of Ambrose, son of Phaedra and last in the king’s line, who is living exiled with his mother in the dilapidated manor of Tarceny. Ambrose’s life is threatened by the hooded priest of the Undercraft, an ancestral spirit of pure evil who must end Ambrose’s life in order to survive himself. And even when Ambrose is hidden within the house of the Widow of Develin, a hallowed place of learning and haven of education, the priest and his minions slowly and subtly infiltrate within, subverting the minds of those most educated and powerful and leaving Ambrose in mortal danger.
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Die prophetischen Worte seines Ahnherrn liegen wie ein Schatten über Prinz Ambrose. Während sein Reich von inneren Kriegen zerrissen wird, irrt Ambrose in der Wildnis umher. Er sucht nach der Lösung eines uralten Rätsels, um den Fluch der weinenden Göttin von seinem Land zu nehmen. Doch erst die Begegnung mit einem geheimnivollen Mädchen, dem ein Zauber innewohnt, wird ihm den Weg dorthin weisen. Einen Weg, der von blutigen Schlachtfeldern zu sturmumtosten Ödlanden und von prunkvollen Höfen bis in die ewige Dunkelheit der Geisterwelt führt.
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Dickinson is the eldest son of author Peter Dickinson and Mary Rose Barnard.
His first novel,, was published in 2004. His novel The Lightstep, written for adults, was published in 2008. Dickinson lives in Painswick, Gloucestershire.
From 1985 to 1998, Dickinson worked at the Ministry of Defence (Ministry of Defence).
During this time he was seconded to the Cabinet Office (1993–1995) and to the United Kingdom Delegation to North Atlantic Treaty Organization where he worked on the Membership Action Plans of the states that joined North Atlantic Treaty Organization in 2004. Dickinson left the Ministry of Defence on a sabbatical in 2002 to become a full-time writer
He wrote two unpublished novels before the third,, was published in 2004 by David Fickling Books, an imprint of Random House Children’s Books. In 1992 Dickinson married Pippa Thomson.
They have two children, born in 1994 and 1997.
In his blog, Dickinson lists his interests as "household cook, a struggling tenor and treasurer for the parish church." Dickinson has written three fantasy novels, (2004), and, which are primarily for young adults. and The Widow and the King have been published in the United States and Brazil as well as in the United Kingdom. has been published in Thailand. The writing style of was described by January Mark in The Guardian as "detailed, glowing rich, and unforgettable." Amanda Craig wrote in The Times that and The Widow and the King were "The strangest novels I’ve come across since William Morris’s fairytales." His third published book,, is a historical novel for adults, set in eighteenth century Germany. lieutenant tells the story of a former republican activist, Michel Wéry, who has become disillusioned by the atrocities of the French Revolution and has become a spy for the aristocratic regime of a small German state.
Dickinson"s science fiction novel, WE, was published on 7 January 2010.
Philip Ardagh, reviewing the book for The Guardian, described the setting as "totally convincing and claustrophic" and that "..it is to Dickinson"s cr that intellectual argument and internal conflict have been used to create such a strong driving force.".
(This stunning book opens 12 years after the end of The Cu...)
(Die prophetischen Worte seines Ahnherrn liegen wie ein Sc...)
(The final novel in this compelling trilogy set in a medie...)