Dicks is a cycle-racing fanatic, a former rider whose career ended abruptly at the Rome Olympics. His obsession for the sport and openness to events lead him effortlessly into complicated circumstances involving the firing of some vases – the work of Leonardo da Vinci – and a bizarre kidnap plot.
This absorbing mystery proves Frank Dickens to be a natural writer with a mastery of dialogue. The Italian and Sardinian backgrounds are strikingly well realized, while Dicks himself is an original and immensely appealing hero, swept along by a tide of events more fast-moving and dangerous than any cycle race.
‘[Dickens] has created an original and immensely appealing hero’ – Peter Owen
Frank Dickens was born in Hornsey, London 1932.
Dickens left school at sixteen and began working for his father, a painter-decorator. A self-taught artist, he began working as a cartoonist in 1959 and has since won eight 'Cartoonist of the Year' awards for his Bristow series. In 1971 he made an introduction into stage work and in 1999 adapted Bristow into a six-part series for BBC Radio 4. Dickens has also published twelve children's books and two thrillers.
Children's series of books from the archives of Britain's favourite cartoonist.
Cavallo At The World Cup
Cavallo At The Derby
Cavallo And The Dog Show
Cavallo On The Towpath
Children's series of books from the archives of Britain's favourite cartoonist.
Cavallo At The World Cup
Cavallo At The Derby
Cavallo And The Dog Show
Cavallo On The Towpath
Waggoner discovers he is out of touch with today’s intelligence links and after a struggle to get back into the game that refuses to welcome him, starts an investigation that includes meetings with other agents and takes in murders in St. Petersburg, bombings in Salvador de Bahia, and romance in Disneyland.
A member of the Duke of Norfolk’s illegal private army, George Bullen's 1593 story begins with lost love, and twists its way through death and war to uncover a horrifying secret of the Virgin Queen.
"The longest running daily cartoon strip by a single author is "Bristow" by Frank Dickens (UK) which has been in continuous publication since first published in the Aberdeen Press & Journal on 18th September 1961".
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Piano tuner extraordinaire Haringay Johnson has a nice sideline in satisfying his customers' sexual fantasies by dressing up in costumes all lovingly supplied by his unsuspecting wife.
This children’s fiction title follows the adventure and antics of Stanley Crocodile and Ollie Hippopotamus as they stowaway on board a cruise ship.
In A Curl Up and Die Day the background of northern Spain and the cycling championships is strikingly realised in an emotional and gripping tale.
