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Helen Dunmore
Helen Dunmore was born in Yorkshire in 1952. She has published eight novels with Penguin, including: Zennor in Darkness, which won the McKitterick Prize; A Spell of Winter, which won the Orange Prize; The Siege, which was shortlisted for the 2001 Whitbread Novel of the Year Award and for the Orange Prize for Fiction 2002; and Mourning Ruby.
She works in several genres including novels, poetry, and children.Helen says ‘for me, depth of character, vibrancy of character, depth of emotion and a fascination with the way each individual's story plays itself out is at the heart of novel-writing. The language has got to be fully alive - I can't bear dull, flaccid writing myself and I don't see why any reader should put up with it’.
When she was living in Finland after graduating from York University, she wrote poems which she didn't show to anyone at the time. However, she began to submit poems to British magazines, and some were accepted. Her first collection of poems was published by Bloodaxe Books, which was then a very new imprint. Fiction came quite a while later. She began with short stories and fiction for children her first published novel was , Zennor in Darkness.
She says of her books: ‘I hope that readers will tear through my books because they can't stop themselves - and then, maybe, read them again and find new things there.’
If you like Helen Dunmore you might also like to read books by Paullina Simons, David Benioff and Emma Tennant Featured Books, with extracts, by Helen Dunmore
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The Betrayal
Helen Dunmore
Featured on The Book Show on Sky Arts on 24 February 2011.
Betrayal is a powerful and touching novel of ordinary people in the grip of a terrible and sinister regime - 1950s Soviet Union, and a moving portrait of a...
Format: Paperback - Released: 03/02/2011
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House of Orphans
Helen Dunmore
Set in dangerous, unfamiliar times at the beginning of the 20th century, which strangely echo our own, the story reveals how terrorism lies hidden within ordinary life, as the rulers of Finland struggle to hold on to power as the...
Format: Paperback (b Format) - Released: 01/02/2007
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Mourning Ruby
Helen Dunmore
Dunmore’s strength is in pulling together complex stories in a beautifully poetic language style and yet making the reading easily assimilated. The interconnected threads to the story revolve mainly around loss; a girl left in a shoebox at 2 days...
Format: Paperback (b Format) - Released: 27/05/2004
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The Siege
Helen Dunmore
The setting once again for the seventh novel by Helen Dunmore is one of war. The siege refers to the siege of Leningrad during WW2 by the Germans. It draws us deep into the Levin's family struggle to stay alive....
Format: Paperback (b Format) - Released: 30/05/2002
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Your Blue-eyed Boy
Helen Dunmore
As the summer ends the autumn mist begins to roll off the water towards Simone’s home, a chilling metaphor for the turn of events which are about to engulf her life. This is a story about relationships and blackmail, past...
Format: Paperback (b Format) - Released: 29/04/1999
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A Spell of Winter
Helen Dunmore
Shortlisted for the Best of the Orange Best 2010 by the Orange Prize Youth Panel.
Winner of the 1996 Orange Prize for Fiction. This is a marvellous novel about forbidden passions and thwarted love by one of the UK's finest writers.A...
Format: Paperback (b Format) - Released: 05/09/1996
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Zennor in Darkness
Helen Dunmore
This is Helen Dunmore’s first novel and although some of her later novels have been more widely read and more obvious commercial bestsellers, this one is an outstanding piece of writing that will truly stand the test of time. During...
Format: Paperback (b Format) - Released: 24/02/1994
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