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Helen Dunmore

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Helen was born in December 1952, in Yorkshire, the second of four children.
She studied English at the University of York, and after graduating taught English as a foreign language in Finland. At around this time she began to write the poems which formed her first poetry collection, The Apple Fall. During the 1980s and early 1990s she taught poetry and creative writing, tutored writing courses and took part in the Poetry Society's Writer in Schools scheme, as well as giving readings and workshops in schools, hospitals, prisons and every other kind of place where a poem could conceivably be welcome.
Helen also taught undergraduate, postgraduate and continuing education courses at the University of Glamorgan, the University of Bristol's Continuing Education Department and for the Open College of the Arts.
Helen was Chair of the Society of Authors 2005-2006, and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.

Available Books by Helen Dunmore

	The Greatcoat Binding: Hardcover ISBN: 9780099564935 RRP: $27.95 In the winter of 1952, Isabel Carey moves to the East Riding of Yorkshire with her husband Philip, a GP. With Philip spending long hours on call, Isabel finds herself isolated and lonely as she strives to adjust to the realities of married life. Woken by intense cold one night, she discovers an old RAF greatcoat hidden in the back of a cupboard. Sleeping under it for warmth, she starts to dream...
	The Ingo Chronicles: Stormswept Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780007455416 RRP: $19.99 Morveren lives with her parents and twin sister Jenna on an island off the coast of Cornwall - an island that in the long distant past was devastated by a tidal wave, its halls and people lost. Only some of those taken by the sea may not have been lost at all... Now, as Morveren and Jenna's relationship shifts and changes, like driftwood on the tide, Morveren finds a beautiful teenage boy in...
	The Betrayal Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780141046839 RRP: $24.95 'Beautifully crafted, gripping, moving, enlightening. Sure to be one of the best historical novels of the year.' Time Out Leningrad, 1952. Andrei, a young hospital doctor, and Anna, a nursery school teacher, are forging a life together in the postwar, postsiege wreckage. But their happiness is precarious, like that of millions of Russians who must avoid the claws of Stalin's merciless...
	The Siege Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780241952191 RRP: $24.95 'Remarkable, affecting . . . There are few more interesting stories than this; and few writers who could have told it better' Rachel Cusk, Daily Telegraph Leningrad, September 1941. Hitler orders the German forces to surround the city at the start of the most dangerous, desperate winter in its history. For two pairs of lovers Anna and Andrei, Anna's novelist father and banned actre...
	The Betrayal Binding: Hardcover ISBN: 9781905490592 RRP: $49.95 Leningrad in 1952: a city recovering from war, where Andrei, a young hospital doctor and Anna, a nursery school teacher, are forging a life together. Summers at the dacha, preparations for the hospital ball, work and the care of sixteen year old Kolya fill their minds. They try hard to avoid coming to the attention of the authorities, but even so their private happiness is precarious. Stalin is st...
	Crossing Of Ingo: A daring journey through icy waters Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780007270262 RRP: $15.99 Sapphire Conor and their Mer friends Faro and Elvira are ready to make the Crossing of Ingo - a long and dangerous journey that only the strongest young Mer are called upon to make. No human being has ever attempted this thrilling voyage to the bottom of the world. Ervys his followers and new recruits the sharks are determined that Sapphire and Conor must be stopped - dead or alive... Ages: 1...
	Ingo Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780007204885 RRP: $15.99 You'll find the mermaid of Zennor inside Zennor church. She fell in love with a human, but she was a Mer creature and so she couldn't come to live with him up in the dry air. She swam up the stream to hear him sing, then one day he swam down it and was never seen again. He became one of the Mer people Sapphire's father told her that story when she was little. When he is lost at sea ...
	The Deep Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780007204922 RRP: $15.99 A devastating flood has torn through the worlds of Air and Ingo, and now, deep in the ocean, a monster is stirring. Mer legend says that only those with dual blood half Mer, half human can overcome the Kraken. Sapphy must return to the Deep, with the help of her friend the whale, and face this terrifying creature and her brother Conor and Mer friend Faro will not let her go alone... Ages: ...
	The Tide Knot Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780007204908 RRP: $15.99 'The Tide Knot' is the dramatic and spell-binding sequel to Helen Dunmore's critically acclaimed 'Ingo'. "I can't go back into the house. I'm restless, prickling all over. The wind hits me like slaps from huge invisible hands. But it's not the wind that worries me. It's something else, beyond the storm..." Sapphire and Conor can't forget their adve...

	The Crossing of Ingo Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780062070661 RRP: $12.95 ...
	The Betrayal Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780802170880 RRP: $19.95 A sequel to the Whitbread Novel Award-nominated The Siege is set in the precarious world of Stalin's 1952 Leningrad and follows a young doctor's desperate effort to protect his family, which has been threatened if he fails to save the life of a secret police officer's seriously ill son. Reprint....
	The Deep Binding: Hardcover ISBN: 9780060818586 RRP: $21.95 When the ferocious shape-shifting Kraken awakes after thousands of years and threatens the Mer, Sapphire agrees to help them by going with her brother Conor and their friend Faro into the Deep to lull the monster back to sleep....
	Ingo Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780060818548 RRP: $9.95 Living on the coast of Cornwall and aware of her family's special connection to the sea, Sapphy is distraught when her father suddenly goes missing and her brother begins to spend endless nights staring out at the shoreline--forcing Sapphy to address her own special bond to the vast seas and the possible family secrets that may have not been shared with her. Reprint....
	The Tide Knot Binding: Hardcover ISBN: 9780060818555 RRP: $21.95 While exploring the kingdom of Mer in order to learn more about their heritage, Sapphire and Connor discover a threat that endangers the Deep and so seek out Saldowr, the wisest of Mer, to get the answers they seek in the unfamiliar world in which they now belong....
	A Spell of Winter Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780802138767 RRP: $16.95 Abandoned by their parents, Catherine and her brother, Rob, are left to the care of their mysterious grandfather, living in an enclosed and stifling world, where their only solace is their relationship with each other....
	Ice Cream Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780802140531 RRP: $15.95 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 of comfort food, and a soulful woman contemplates a youthful pregnancy and remembers a troubled lover. Reprint....
	The Betrayal Binding: Hardcover ISBN: 9781410444257 RRP: $56.95 A sequel to "The Siege" is set in the precarious world of Stalin's 1952 Leningrad and follows a young doctor's desperate effort to protect his family, which has been threatened if he fails to save the life of a secret police officer's seriously ill son....
	With Your Crooked Heart Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780802137708 RRP: $15.95 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....

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	A Spell Of Winter Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780140248814 Catherine and her brother, Rob, do not know why they have been abandoned by their parents. In the house of their grandfather, "the man from nowhere," they make a passionate refuge for themselves against the terror of family secrets. While the world outside moves to the brink of war, their sibling love becomes fraught with dangers. But as Catherine fights free of the past, the spe...
	A Spell Of Winter Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780141033587 Catherine and her brother, Rob, don't know why they have been abandoned by their parents. Incarcerated in the enormous country house of their grandfather - 'the man from nowhere' - they create a refuge against their family's dark secrets - and the outside world as it moves towards the First World War. As time passes their sibling love deepens and crosses into forbidden territory - ...
	Burning Bright Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780140173574 Nadine, a sixteen-year-old runaway new to the city, is set up in a decaying Georgian house by her Finnish lover, Kai. Slowly she begins to suspect that Kai's plans for her have nothing to do with love. "Be careful," warns Enid, a sitting tenant in the house, who knows all about murderous passion and staying alive. When Nadine discovers that Kai intends to rent her out to a go...
	Burning Bright Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780141033945 Nadine, a sixteen-year-old runaway new to the city, is set up in a decaying Georgian house by her Finnish lover, Kai. Slowly, she begins to suspect that Kai's plans for her have nothing to do with love. 'Be careful' warns Enid, a sitting tenant in the house, who knows all about murderous passion and staying alive. When Nadine discovers that Kai intends to rent her out to a government m...
	Counting The Stars Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780670914555 In the heat of Rome's long summer, the poet Catullus and his older married lover, Clodia Metelli, meet in secret. Living at the heart of sophisticated, brittle and brutal Roman society at the time of Pompey, Crassus and Julius Caesar, Catullus is obsessed with Clodia, the Lesbia of his most passionate poems. He is jealous of her husband, of her maid, even of her pet sparrow. And Clodia? Catul...
	Definitions: Going To Egypt Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780099411956 'Definitions' is a top quality fiction series for free thinking young teenagers....
	Definitions: In The Money Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780099411871 The Tiernan family is suddenly in the money, with all their expensive possessions to prove it. But Mum and Dad haven't exactly said where the money has come from and it's only when Paul meets the strange Sarah-Louise that things start to swing alarmingly in place. 'Definitions' is a top quality fiction series for free thinking young teenagers....
	House Of Orphans Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780141015026 Finland, 1902, and the Russian Empire enforces a brutal policy to destroy Finland's freedom and force its people into submission. Eeva, orphaned daughter of a failed revolutionary, also battles to find her independence and identity. Destitute when her father dies, she is sent away to a country orphanage, and then employed as servant to a widowed doctor, Thomas Eklund. Slowly, Thomas falls in...
	House Of Orphans Binding: Hardcover ISBN: 9780670914517 Finland 1901. Eeva, the young orphaned daughter of a revolutionary, is sent from the orphanage to work as housekeeper for Thomas, a widowed country doctor. Her challenging, independent, enigmatic presence disturbs Thomas as much as it fascinates him. Their relationship will shatter all the certainties of his life. Meanwhile Eeva is drawn back to Helsinki, to the comrades of her childhood, and in p...
	House Of Orphans Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780670914524 A spellbinding story of love and loneliness in a country torn between reform and revolution as it emerges into independence. Finland 1901. Eeva, the young orphaned daughter of a revolutionary, is sent from the orphanage to work as housekeeper for Thomas, a widowed country doctor. Eeva is challenging, independent and enigmatic; their relationship will shatter the certainties of Thomas's life. ...
	Ice-Cream Binding: Hardcover ISBN: 9780670887712 "Then there is a breath of wood-strawberries, a burnt aroma of coffee, the silk-sweet innocence of vanilla, the spice of ginger, the ice-green tang of lime. The waiter lowers his platter to the table and places it before Clara..." Innovative and yet masterfully controlled, sensuous and brilliant, Ice Cream is a memorable collection of new stories. Ranging from Victorian tragedy t...
	Ingo Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780007213177 You'll find the mermaid of Zennor inside Zennor church. She fell in love with a human, but she was a Mer creature and so she couldn't come to live with him up in the dry air. She swam up the stream to hear him sing, then one day he swam down it and was never seen again. He became one of the Mer people . . . Sapphire's father told her that story when she was little. When he is lost at...
	Ingo Binding: Hardcover ISBN: 9780060818524 Living on the coast of Cornwall and aware of her family's special connection to the sea, Sapphy is distraught when her father suddenly goes missing and her brother begins to spend endless nights staring out at the shoreline--forcing Sapphy to address her own special bond to the vast seas and the possible family secrets that may have not been shared with her....
	Love Of Fat Men Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780140248821 There is nothing as sleep-giving as the shoulder and breast of a fat man... Flesh provides comfort in the harsh, winterbound world of Helen Dunmore's compelling new stories, but love is stretched to breaking-point. Tense, moving and mysterious, this collection explores the pain woven into human relationships, the ambivalence of filial love and the dangerous lure of sensuality, themes which ech...
	Mammoth Storybook: Allie's Rabbit Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780749735302 ...
	Mourning Ruby Binding: Hardcover ISBN: 9780670914494 Like a Russian doll, this is a novel of interlocking stories, each one opening to reveal another. It tells not only the story of the loss of a child and its effect on three people, but an account of a young girl's life in a brothel during WWI, the magical story of a circus acrobat, and the history of Stalin's first wife and her mysterious fate. 'Mourning Ruby' is Helen Dunmore'...
	Seal Cove Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780439977685 Katie and Zillah are in their last year at the local primary school, and looking forward to moving on. But then they discover that the school is threatened with closure, and they could be the last children ever to go there. Their class is determined - they have brothers and sisters in the school, their parents went there, the school is part of their community - they won't let it close, whateve...
	Silver Bead Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780439973526 Katie and Zillah are looking forward to the Cornish summer that stretches ahead of them, all swimming and surfing and long, lazy hot days. Then travellers arrive at Zillah's dad's campsite and soon tensions develop. Katie makes friends with Rose, one of the travellers, and suddenly there's a chill between her and Zillah. It leads Katie to wonder about their friendship, until something ...
	Talking To The Dead Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780140258257 ...
	The Crossing Of Ingo Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780007270279 Sapphire, Conor and their Mer friends Faro and Elvira are ready to make the Crossing of Ingo a long and dangerous journey that only the strongest young Mer are called upon to make. No human being has ever attempted this thrilling voyage to the bottom of the world. Ervys, his followers and new recruits, the sharks, are determined that Sapphire and Conor must be stopped dead or alive... Ages: 1...
	The Deep Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780007235100 The third spell-binding story about Sapphy and Conor's adventures in the powerful and dangerous underwater world of Ingo. A devastating flood has torn through the worlds of Air and Ingo, and now, deep in the ocean, a monster is stirring. Mer legend says that only those with dual blood -- half Mer, half human -- can overcome the Kraken. Sapphy must return to the Deep, with the help of her fri...
	The Lilac Tree Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780439977678 After the tragic death of her father, Katie and her mum go to live in the depths of Cornwall, as far away from their London life as possible. The countryside is beautiful, but coping with a cottage with no heating, an outside loo and a lot of spiders is more than Katie bargained for. ...
	The Siege Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780141000732 Leningrad, September 1941. Hitler orders German forces to surround the city at the start of the most dangerous, desperate winter in its history. For two pairs of lovers - young Anna and Andrei, Anna's novelist father and actress Marina - the siege becomes a battle for survival. They will soon discover what it is like to be so hungry you boil shoe leather to make soup, so cold you burn furnitur...
	The Tide Knot Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780007228973 'The Tide Knot' is the dramatic and spellbinding sequel to Helen Dunmore's critically acclaimed Ingo trilogy. "There's a current racing ahead, the colour of the darkest blue velvet. We plunge forward. The current is so strong that it crushes me. I'm jolting, juddering, struggling in its grip, but I can't break away. It's got me, like a cat with a bird in its claws....
	With Your Crooked Heart Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780140286359 Paul and Johnnie are born twelve years apart, in a one-bedroom flat in Barking. Their ascent to money and power looks easy from a distance, but it burns those who get too close. When Paul marries Louise, Johnnie is part of the contract, while their daughter, Anna, is tangled in it from birth. Paul deals in the development of contaminated land; self-destructive, seductive Johnnie deals in crime. Wh...
	With Your Crooked Heart Binding: Hardcover ISBN: 9780670887705 In powerful and diamond-sharp prose, Helen Dunmore writes a Dickensian story of two brothers who come from nowhere and want everything. Paul and Johnnie are born twelve years apart, in a one-bedroom flat in Barking. Their ascent to money and power looks easy from a distance, but it burns those who get too close. When Paul marries Louise, Johnnie is part of the contract, while their daughter, Anna,...
	With Your Crooked Heart Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780670888993 In powerful and diamond-sharp prose, Helen Dunmore writes a Dickensian story of two brothers who come from nowhere and want everything. Paul and Johnnie are born twelve years apart, in a one-bedroom flat in Barking. Their ascent to money and power looks easy from a distance, but it burns those who get too close. When Paul marries Louise, Johnnie is part of the contract, while their daughter, Anna,...
	Yellow Go Bananas: Tara's Tree House Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9781405209786 Yellow Go Bananas - Chapter books for newly fluent readers with added facts and activities....
	Your Blue-Eyed Boy Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780140272178 Simone reluctantly gives up her thriving London legal practice to take a highly paid, but stressful, job as a District Judge. With two small boys, and a husband on the verge of bankruptcy and breakdown, she struggles to maintain a normal family life. Then one morning a letter arrives addressed to her and postmarked New York. Someone she has tried to forget has not forgotten her... 'A highly-ch...
	Your Blue-Eyed Boy Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780141033624 Simone reluctantly gives up her thriving London legal practice to take a highly paid, but stressful, job as a District Judge. With two small boys, and a husband on the verge of bankruptcy and breakdown, she struggles to maintain a normal family life. Then one morning a letter arrives, addressed to her and postmarked New York. Someone she has tried to forget has not forgotten her . . . ...
	Your Blue-Eyed Boy Binding: Hardcover ISBN: 9780670879137 ...
	Zennor In Darkness Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780140173567 0...
	Zennor In Darkness Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780141033600 Spring, 1917 and war haunts the Cornish coastal village of Zennor: ships are being sunk by U-boats, strangers are treated with suspicion, and newspapers are full of spy-fever. Into this turmoil come D. H. Lawrence and his German wife Frieda, hoping to escape the war-fever that grips London. They befriend Clare Coyne, a young artist, struggling to console her beloved cousin John William who is on ...
	Zilah And Me Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780439012980 ...

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