The ways in which the present longs for the past, questions it, tries to get in touch with it, and stretches the power of memory to its limits, are central to this new collection by Helen Dunmore. The
Helen Dunmore's final collection Inside the Wave was 2017 Costa Book of the Year. Counting Backwards is a posthumous retrospective covering ten of her collections written over four decades.
New collection by prizewinning poet and novelist: poems about mortality, illness, being alive and the borderline between the living human world and the underworld.
Sapphy and her brother Conor are to take part in the crossing of Ingo, an ancient and dangerous coming-of-age ritual, but Ervys and his sharks are determined to stop them.
Sapphire lives in two worlds. On land she walks the rocky shores of the Cornwall coast?but under the sea she can swim like a seal by the side of her Mer friend Faro. Now both of Sapphy's worlds are t
Bestselling novelist Helen Dunmore’s historical novels have earned her comparisons in the press to Tolstoy and Emily Bronte. In her newest book, Dunmore mines the past to chilling effect in this evoca
In a seaside town of sandy beaches and ocean breezes, Sapphy has never felt so far from the sea. The crowded shore at St. Pirans is nothing like the cove at Sapphy's old home, where she first found he
From the acclaimed author of "Talking to the Dead" comes a haunting novel about a judge whose husband is on the verge of personal bankruptcy and breakdown. As she struggles to shield her two sons fro
?A spy novel but one that has been quietly and ingeniously deepened well beyond the ambitions of genre . . . [it] is one of those books that you read with your heart in your mouth, your mind fully eng
Caught between two brothers, Louise--a tough, meditative Londoner--marries Paul and finds herself trapped in a family with the self-destructive, criminal younger brother Johnnie. Reprint.
In a first collection to be published in the United States, a cafeteria cook confronts her Polish pen pal, a divorced mother gains insight from a parking meter, a thin celebrity gives in to the lure o
Dunmore so cleverly interweaves each of the character's stories that as the tale unfolds it has the chilling ring of absolute authenticity. It’s gripping and page turning and all those things you expe
It is 1792 and Europe is seized by political turmoil and violence. Lizzie Fawkes has grown up in Radical circles where each step of the French Revolution is followed with eager idealism. But she has r
Internationally-acclaimed author Helen Dunmore follows her bestselling novel, The Siege, with a riveting and emotionally absorbing portrait of post-war Soviet Russia, a world of violence and terror, w
From the award-winning author of The Siege, Helen Dunmore, comes The Lie; a spellbinding tale of love, remembrance, and deception, set against the backdrop of World War I.Cornwall, 1920. Daniel Branw
"Written in crisp, enthralling prose . . . the sense of deja vu surrounding the story makes it all the more chilling. . . . Tense and engaging."?The New Yorker?A perfect ghost story.”?The IndependentH
It is 1792 and Europe is seized by political turmoil and violence. Lizzie Fawkes has grown up in Radical circles where each step of the French Revolution is followed with eager idealism. But she has r
Returning to his Cornwell fishing hometown after surviving World War I, Daniel is haunted by memories of his closest friend and his first love before suffering the unforeseen consequences of a lie. By
Called "elegantly, starkly beautiful" by The New York Times Book Review, The Siege is Helen Dunmore's masterpiece. Her canvas is monumental -- the Nazis' 1941 winter siege on Leningrad that killed si
