Böcker av Peter Nichols

In 1968, nine men - six Englishmen, two Frenchmen and an Italian - set out to try, a race born of coincidence of their timing. One didn't even know how to sail. This is a true story of the inaugural 1968 Golden Globe sailing race: the first single-handed non-stop circumnavigation of the world.

A small town in coastal Maine is under threat from a serial killer in this crime novel from Peter Nichols - bestselling author of The RocksIn scenic Granite Harbor on the coast of Maine, life has continued on--quiet and serene--for decades. That is until a local teenager's body is found brutally murdered and hung in The Settlement, the town's historic archaeological site. The way the body is displayed, hung from a handmade wooden structure, and the singular gruesome clue left inside the corpse, signal that this might not have been the killer's first victim.Alex Brangwen is adjusting to life as a single father and the town's sole detective after a failed career as a novelist. This is his first murder case, and as both a parent and detective, Alex knows the people of Granite Harbor are looking to him to catch the killer and temper the fear that has descended over the town. But his skills as a detective are rudimentary, and he worries that they are more novelist's intuition than investigator's expertise.Isabel, a single mother attempting to support her family while healing from her own demons, finds herself in the middle of the case when she begins working at The Settlement. Her son Ethan, and Alex's daughter Sophie, were best friends with the victim. When another teenager is found murdered, the body left with the same gruesome detail, both parents are terrified that their child may be next.As Alex and Isabel race to find the killer in their midst, the town's secrets, past and present, begin bubbling to the surface, threatening to unravel the tight-knit community. At once a page-turning thriller and a captivating portrait of the social fabric of a small town, Granite Harbor evokes the place and atmosphere of a Jane Harper mystery with a terrifying villain reminiscent of Thomas Harris's Buffalo Bill.

"An extraordinary story of bravery and insanity on the high seas. . . . One of the most gripping sea stories I have ever read." -- Sebastian Junger, author of The Perfect StormIn the tradition of Into Thin Air and The Perfect Storm, comes a breathtaking oceanic adventure about an obsessive desire to test the limits of human endurance.In 1968 nine sailors set off on the most daring race ever held and never before completed: to single-handedly circumnavigate the globe nonstop. Ten months later, only one of the nine men would cross the finish line and earn fame, wealth, and glory. For the others, the reward was madness, failure, and death.Gorgeously written and meticulously researched by author Peter Nichols, this extraordinary book chronicles the contest of the individual against the sea, waged at a time before cell phones, satellite dishes, and electronic positioning systems. A Voyage for Madmen is a tale of sailors driven by their own dreams and demons, of horrific storms, and of those riveting moments when a decision means the difference between life and death.

Three generations, two families and the dangerous delights of a Mediterranean island, The Rocks is a bittersweet chronicle of unresolved feuds.

Poppy is a celebration of Victorian values and exposes the hypocrisy, racism, drug dealing, money worship and sexual repression of the time through its favourite entertainment form. Dick Whittington, his man Jack, Sally the Principal Girl, the Dame, two pantomime horses, a flying ballet, a transformation scene and even the traditional song-sheet are all brought on to tell the serious and finally devasting story of the single most profitable crop of the British East India Company.4 women, 6 men

It's the mid-1950s and 'innocent abroad' Steven Flowers has travelled to Florence to teach English in a chaotic language school, Lingua Franca. He is soon adopted by fellow Brit, Peggy, but is more interested in Heidi, a newcomer from Munich.

Ted Forrest is a playwright with a problem ΓÇö writer''s block. When we first meet him ΓÇö bitter, disillusioned and consumed with envy of Miles Whittier, a younger, more successful playwright ΓÇö he has retreated to the country in an attempt to stimulate his creative impotence by writing an autobiographical novel.|2 women, 3 men

In a mock Tudor manor gone to seed lives 70 year old Maud and her younger son, forty five year old Mo. She speaks more to the soundless television than to him and he plays New Orleans jazz on his drums. An attempt to destroy this happy way of life is made on the occasion of the father's funeral by Hedley, the older son, and by Queenie, Mo's twin sister from California. But the cloistered pair prefer to remain in what is, in effect, a shed in the garden of Heartbreak House.2 women, 2 men

Forget-me-not Lane'' is a bittersweet play about fathers, families and nostalgia - about (in Nichol''s words) a youth which was bitter to live through but sweet to remember. It was first performed in 1971 at the Greenwich Theatre, London.|4 women, 5 men

Music hall routines with clever and ribald lyrics highlight this British hit about an army entertainment unit in post World War II Malaya.1 woman, 10 men

A Piece of My Mind "transforms a self-confessed case of writer's block into a continuously inventive and thought-provoking comedy" (Charles Spencer, London Daily News)

Includes the early plays, "A Day in the Death of Joe Egg", "The National Health" and "Forget-Me-Not Lane". Each play is introduced by the author with extracts from his diary. This edition is being published alongside "Nichols Plays: Two".

Peter Nichols's modern classic - a provocative comedy about sex, love and infidelity.

Contains the plays, television plays and screenplays of the writer Peter Nichols, as well as his non-dramatic writing. The book also has a chapter in which Nichols discusses his work.

"Blue Murder is an absolute cracker, as ingenious as it is riotously funny" (Daily Telegraph)

'This remarkable play is about a nightmare all women must have dreamed at some time, and most men...'Ronald Bryden, Observer (1967)'Joe Egg is unlike any play I've seen; Which is why, once seen, Joe Egg won't go away.'Robert Butler, Independent on Sunday (1993)

Bri, a schoolteacher and his wife Sheila have a 10-year old spastic child named Josephine, who is completely helpless and utterly dependent. Bri hides behind irony and sarcasm. Sheila believes the child is her penance for a promiscuous past and soldiers on devotedly with their little "Joe Egg". Well-meaning family and friends offer sundry solutions, everything from adoption to euthanasia but ultimately Bri finds he cannot continue and leaves Sheila and Joe behind.-4 women, 2 men

Includes, among others, the plays, "The Freeway", "Privates on Parade" and "Passion Play". Each play is introduced by the author with extracts from his diary. This edition is being published alongside "Nichols Plays: One".