Bøger af Mick Jackson

A child's imagination takes flight in this charming and poignant picture book. Wouldn't moving house be magical, if your house could move with you?When a boy is told that they are moving house, he envisions his house lifted by cranes, winding its way through narrow streets, and even sailing across the sea... But his mother helps him understand: even if they must leave their house behind, the two of them will still be on an adventure.

Mabel Taylor has a new red sledge. Just look at it! It has a rope for pulling it round and a shiny bottom to make it go extra-fast...When Mabel Taylor receives a shiny red sledge for Christmas, she can't wait to try it out! But ... oh. No snow. No snow at all. And there's no snow the next day, either ... or the next. So, instead, Mabel imagines herself on the most extraordinary of adventures, becoming a bobsleigh champion, a polar explorer, and even Father Christmas! And just when she's stopped waiting and watching for the snow to fall, her world is transformed by a thick blanket of brilliant white...Brimming over with the joy of imaginary and outdoor play, this is a timeless winter storybook penned by a Booker-shortlisted writer.

Mabel Taylor has a new red sledge. Just look at it! It has a rope for pulling it round and a shiny bottom to make it go extra-fast... When Mabel Taylor receives a shiny red sledge for Christmas, she can't wait to try it out! But ... oh. No snow. No snow at all. And there's no snow the next day, either ... or the next. So, instead, Mabel imagines herself on the most extraordinary of adventures, becoming a bobsleigh champion, a polar explorer, and even Father Christmas! And just when sheâEUR(TM)s stopped waiting and watching for the snow to fall, her world is transformed by a thick blanket of brilliant whiteâEUR¿Brimming over with the joy of imaginary and outdoor play, this is a timeless winter storybook penned by a Booker-shortlisted writer.

Pas på! Sne eller ej - her kommer Matilde Larsen på sin skinnende nye kælk.Matilde drømmer om at være bobslædekører, polarforsker eller julemanden på sin nye røde kælk. Men der er bare ingen sne ... Og uden sne er det jo svært at kælke.En sød fortælling om at have store drømme og ønsker – og en stor portion tålmodighed!

Have you ever wondered what's happening in the world while you're asleep in your bed? Bakers, firefighters, postal workers, doctors, nurses, wildlife and more! This is the perfect book for bedtime, opening up a whole world of wonder and imagination for children.

When Bobby is evacuated from London to a remote Devonshire village, a strange new chapter of his life begins. Empty of its menfolk, the village is given over to the "stay behinds" the women, the old and young, and five terrifying boys who accuse Bobby of being a Nazi spy. Then, there is the enigmatic Bee King, a mysterious figure who exercises a powerful, hypnotic influence on the village, and especially the boys.As the days wind down to the D-day invasion and the Allied soldiers crash the beaches along the French coast, the villagers will enact their own drama -- a tense interplay of events that will engulf them all and ulti- mately reveal the truth about the Bee King.Brilliantly captivating and thoroughly researched, Five Boys is the tale of the war's impact on the home front, bringing to light a lost place and time with an expert touch.

The second children's book from the wonderful illustrator John Broadley, working with Booker-shortlisted novelist Mick Jackson, following their glorious debut While You're Sleeping.

'They both stop and stare for a moment. Yuki feels she's spent about half her adult life thinking about snow, but when it starts, even now, it always arresting, bewildering. Each snowflake skating along some invisible plane. Always circuitous, as if looking for the best place to land...'Yukiko tragically lost her mother ten years ago. After visiting her sister in London, she goes on the run, and heads for Haworth, West Yorkshire, the last place her mother visited before her death. Against a cold, winter, Yorkshire landscape, Yuki has to tackle the mystery of her mother's death, her burgeoning friendship with a local girl, the allure of the Brontes and her own sister's wrath.Both a pilgrimage and an investigation into family secrets, Yuki's journey is the one she always knew she'd have to make, and one of the most charming and haunting in recent fiction.

By Mick Jackson, adapted for the stage by Nick WoodStage adaptation of Mick Jackson's celebrated novel (1997), which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize, the Whitbread First Novel Award and winner of the Royal Society of Authors' First Novel Award.Adapted by Nick Wood, critically acclaimed playwright and bestselling author of A Girl With A Book and Other Plays; his works are performed extensively in the UK, USA and Europe.Co-produced by Nottingham Playhouse (co-producer of the critically acclaimed stage version of 1984) and Nick Wood's AJTC (A Girl with a Book). A life of fascination, obsession and deep scientific curiosity.William Cavendish-Scott-Bentinck is an eccentric Nottinghamshire aristocrat whose imagination and curiosity know no bounds. This deceptively simple man struggles to come to terms with a world that is teeming with new knowledge, ill-founded opinion and gossip.Why does he hide himself away? What is his fascination with tunnels? Will he ever unearth the secrets hidden in his memory?In a sequence of events that are often curious and frequently hilarious, he reveals moments of surprising perception and wisdom. The Underground Man is a delectable blend of fact and fiction in which the intriguing details of a complex life are richly explored through the vibrant imagination of a gentle soul.

A newly-widowed woman has done a runner. She just jumped in her car, abandoned her (very nice) house in north London and kept on driving until she reached the Norfolk coast. Now she's rented a tiny cottage and holed herself away there, if only to escape the ceaseless sympathy and insincere concern.She's not quite sure, but thinks she may be having a bit of a breakdown. Or perhaps this sense of dislocation is perfectly normal in the circumstances. All she knows is that she can't sleep and may be drinking a little more than she ought to.But as her story unfolds we discover that her marriage was far from perfect. That it was, in fact, full of frustration and disappointment, as well as one or two significant secrets, and that by running away to this particular village she might actually be making her own personal pilgrimage.By turns elegiac and highly comical, The Widow's Tale conjures up this most defiantly unapologetic of narrators as she begins to pick over the wreckage of her life and decide what has real value and what she should leave behind.

One of the most acclaimed novels of recent times, The Underground Man is the fictionalised diary of a deeply eccentric English aristocrat. The duke has just completed a network of tunnels beneath his estate. His health is failing, but his imagination seems to know no bounds. And while he spends more time underground and retreats ever deeper into the darker corners of his house there are some ghosts that demand to be acknowledged and some memories which insist on making themselves known.

Something strange is going on in the village. A dead pig is carried through the lanes in a coffin, a heap of signposts are buried in a field and a mummy walks the streets late at night, scaring the local ladies half to death. Things have never been the same since the evacuee arrived and the Five Boys mistook him for a Nazi spy. It is as if someone is out for revenge. The village has had a whole host of visitors since: the Americans are down the road preparing for D-Day and a deserter is hiding out in the woods. But it is the arrival of the Bee King which makes the biggest impression. He is a law unto himself, has his own strange rituals and the villagers fear that he is beginning to exert the same charm over their boys as he does over his bees. The second novel by the highly acclaimed author of The Underground Man confirms Mick Jackson's originality and talent.

Ud fra historiske fakta og de rygter, der stadig verserer på egnen om virkelighedens Tunnelmager, den meget excentriske femte Hertug af Portland, William John Cavendish Bentinck-Scott (1800-1879), har Mick Jackson vækket denne mystiske Hertug til live og skabt en fascinerende og sprudlende roman og en af litteraturhistoriens mest uforglemmelige hovedpersoner.Hans Nåde, Hertugen af Portland, lever sit liv som excentrisk eneboer på sit gods i Nordengland. Her får han bygget et enormt system af kilometerlange tunneler, så brede, at to hestevogne kan passere hinanden. Han drives omkring på sit gods i en ensom søgen, pint af et uhåndgribeligt savn, hvis oprindelse afdækkes gradvist, såvel for hertugen som for læseren. “Jeg banede mig vej hjem gennem Cow-close-skoven, hvor jeg fik øje på en enlig skades dovne, dykkende flugt. Jeg spyttede to gange, løftede min hat og sagde: »Godmorgen, hr. Skade,« og derefter så jeg mig omkring for at sikre mig, at mit lille ritual ikke var blevet overværet af nogen. Jeg tror minsæl, at jeg bliver mere overtroisk for hvert år, der går. Engang ville jeg have kastet en sten efter fuglen. Nu kryber jeg sammen som et forskræmt barn.”

Året er 1941. På flugt fra de tyske bombardementer ankommer en lille london-dreng, Bobby, til en landsby i Sydengland, forvirret og knuget af savnet af sin mor. Her er der fred, sådan da. For landsbyen har sine egne fredsforstyrrere, lømlerne De Fem Drenge, der hurtigt får et godt øje til Bobby, som de er sikre på er tysk spion ...Sådan åbner denne underfundige roman om et alt andet end døsigt landsbyliv i England under 2. verdenskrig. Som historien skrider frem, møder vi byens andre, mere eller mindre sære eksistenser og oplever sammen med dem, hvordan krigen kommer tættere og tættere på, indtil den dag amerikanske tropper kommer rullende i jeeps og lastbiler for at gøre egnen til træningslejr før D-dag.Mick Jackson, født 1960 i Great Harwood, Lancashire, England. Har i en årrække arbejdet med teater og studerede teatervidenskab ved Dartington College of Arts. Brød i 1997 igennem med romanen Tunnelmageren (eng. The Underground Man), som blev shortlistet til både Booker-prisen og årets Whitbread Award for bedste roman 1997. Jackson har desuden skrevet Fem drenge (eng. Five Boys), Ten Sorry Tales (2006) og The Widow’s Tale (2010).