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Helen Dunmore


UK flag (1952 - 2017)

Helen Dunmore's pen must have barely rested after her first novel, Zennor in Darkness, was published in 1993. An extraordinarily prolific writer, she won the inaugural Orange Prize for Fiction for her second novel A Spell of Winter and her other bestselling fiction included the novels The SiegeThe Betrayal and ExposureBirdcage Walk was her last novel. Dunmore also wrote books for children and YA readers, including the novels that form the Ingo Chronicles. She was also an award-winning poet and her final collection, written in the months leading up to her death, Inside the Wave, is both a meditation on mortality and a celebration of life in all its strange and wonderful richness.
 

Genres: Children's Fiction, Young Adult Fantasy, Historical, Literary Fiction, Horror
 
Series
Helen Dunmore's Children's books
   Going to Egypt (1992)
   In the Money (1993)
   Recovering a Body (1994)
   Secrets (1994)
   Go Fox! (1996)
   Amina's Blanket (1996)
   Fatal Error (1996)
   Bestiary (1997)
   Allie's Apples (1997)
   Clyde's Leopard (1998)
   Great-Grandma's Dancing Dress (1998)
   Brother, Brother, Sister, Sister (1999)
   Allie's Rabbit (1999)
   Zillah and Me (2000)
   Aliens Don't Eat Bacon Sandwiches (2000)
   Allie Away (2000)
   The Ugly Duckling (2001)
   Snollygoster (2001)
   The Zillah Rebellion (2001)
   The Silver Bead (2003)
   The Lilac Tree (2004)
   The Seal Cove (2004)
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Siege
   1. The Siege (2001)
   2. The Betrayal (2010)
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Ingo Chronicles
   1. Ingo (2005)
   2. The Tide Knot (2006)
   3. The Deep (2007)
   4. The Crossing of Ingo (2008)
   5. Stormswept (2012)
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Novels
   Zennor in Darkness (1993)
   Burning Bright (1994)
   A Spell of Winter (1995)
   Talking to the Dead (1996)
   Your Blue-Eyed Boy (1998)
   With Your Crooked Heart (1999)
   Mourning Ruby (2003)
   House of Orphans (2006)
   Counting the Stars (2008)
   The Greatcoat (2012)
   The Lie (2014)
   Exposure (2016)
   Birdcage Walk (2017)
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Collections
   The Apple Fall (1983)
   The Sea Skater (1986)
   The Raw Garden (1988)
   Short Days, Long Nights (poems) (1991)
   Love of Fat Men (1997)
   Ice Cream (2000)
   Out of the Blue (poems) (2001)
   Silent Night (2002) (with others)
   Glad of These Times (poems) (2007)
   The Malarkey (poems) (2012)
   Inside the Wave (poems) (2017)
   Girl, Balancing (2018)
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Novellas and Short Stories
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Picture Books show
 
Graphic Novels show
 
Helen Dunmore recommends
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The Feed (2018)
Nick Clark Windo
"What a riveting and original novel! THE FEED is frighteningly believable and disturbing and I loved the way I was pulled into its dark reality, so convincing that it's almost unbearable. THE FEED is one of those rare novels that changes your mind as you read it. It is such a brilliant exploration of the hive-mind, taken to chilling extremes which almost destroy humanity."
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Home Fire (2017)
Kamila Shamsie
"Its pages are lit by Shamsie's eloquent prose . A novel well worth reading."
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The Lie of the Land (2017)
Amanda Craig
"I loved the The Lie of the Land. A panoramic, superbly-plotted novel about the ways we live now, about money and desire, cruelty and generosity, crime and vengeance, country and city. Craig is at the top of her game."

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Anthologies containing stories by Helen Dunmore
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First Light (2022)
A Celebration of Alan Garner
edited by
Erica Wagner
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Arboreal (2016)
A Collection of Words from the Woods
edited by
Adrian Cooper
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Reader, I Married Him (2016)
Stories Inspired by Jane Eyre
edited by
Tracy Chevalier

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Awards
Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction Best Book winner (1996) : A Spell of Winter
Women's Prize For Fiction Best Novel winner (1996) : A Spell of Winter
Whitbread Prize Best Novel nominee (2001) : The Siege
Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction Best Book nominee (2002) : The Siege
Women's Prize For Fiction Best Novel nominee (2002) : The Siege
Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction Best Book nominee (2006) : House of Orphans
Booker Prize Best Novel nominee (2010) : The Betrayal
Walter Scott Prize Best Historical Novel nominee (2015) : The Lie


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