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A Spell of Winter by Helen Dunmore
Category: Fiction
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. A ...Show more
A Spell of Winter by Helen Dunmore
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Essentials Ser.
Incarcerated in the enormous country house of their grandfather - 'the man from nowhere' - they create a refuge against their family's dark secrets, and against the outside world as it moves towards the First World War. As time passes, their sibling love deepens and crosses into forbidden territory. But ...Show more
Birdcage Walk by Helen Dunmore
Category: Fiction
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 recently married John Diner Tredevant, a property developer who is heavily invested in Bristol’s housin ...Show more
Birdcage Walk by Helen Dunmore
Category: Audio Books
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 recently married John Diner Tredevant, a property developer who is heavily invested in Bristol's housing ...Show more
Birdcage Walk by Helen Dunmore
Category: Fiction
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'The finest novel Dunmore has written.' Observer'Superb and poignant.' Guardian'Quietly brilliant ... among the best fiction of our time.' Daily Telegraph It is 1792 and Europe is seized by political turmoil and violence. Lizzie Fawkes has grown up in Radical circles where ...Show more
Counting Backwards: Poems 1975-2017 by DUNMORE HELEN
Category: Poetry
Winner of the Costa Book of the Year for her final collection, Inside the Wave, Helen Dunmore was as spellbinding storyteller in her poetry and in her prose. Her haunting narratives draw us into darkness, engaging our fears and hopes in poetry of rare luminosity, nowhere more so than in Inside the Wave, ...Show more
Counting the Stars by Helen Dunmore
Category: Fiction
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 passionat ...Show more
Crossing of Ingo (#4) by Helen Dunmore
Category: Young Adult Fiction
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 ...Show more
Exposure by Helen Dunmore
Category: Fiction
"A deceptively simple masterpiece". (Independent on Sunday). "Will haunt you for months, if not years". (Guardian). "Outstanding ...if you only buy one book, make it this one". (Good Housekeeping). London, November, 1960: the Cold War is at its height. Spy fever fills the newspapers, and the political e ...Show more
Exposure by Helen Dunmore
Category: Crime and Thrillers
London, November, 1960: the Cold War is at its height. Spy fever fills the newspapers, and the political establishment knows how and where to bury its secrets. When a highly sensitive file goes missing, Simon Callington is accused of passing information to the Soviets, and arrested. His wife, Lily, susp ...Show more
Girl, Balancing and Other Stories by Helen Dunmore
Category: Fiction
'Wisdom and wit shine out from Helen Dunmore's last stories' The Times 'It was her emotional concision that made her so exceptional, a quality on ample display in these posthumous short stories ... some absolute gems' Mail on Sunday 'I couldn't recommend these stories more.' Evening Standard__________ ...Show more