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Helen Dunmore

Helen Dunmore

  • 5 stars across 23 books

Helen Dunmore was an award-winning novelist, poet and children's writer, who will be remembered for the wisdom, lyricism, compassion and immersive beauty of her writing. In her lifetime, she published eight collections of poetry, many novels for both adults and children, and two collections of short stories. She won the Orange Prize for Fiction with her novel A Spell of Winter, her novel The Siege was shortlisted for the Orange Prize and the Whitbread Prize for Fiction, and her final poetry collection Inside the Wave won the 2017 Costa Book of the Year.

1st March 2007

Secrets

"Then she grinned. I grinned. It was just as if we knew each other."India lives in a HUGE house, but hardly gets any att... MoreSecrets

(4 reviews) Review
5th July 2012

The Tide Knot

Stunning reissue in a beautiful new cover-look of this second novel in the critically acclaimed Ingo Chronicles. ... MoreThe Tide Knot

(2 reviews) Review
14th October 2008

Pingolo

(2 reviews) Review
5th July 2012

The Deep

Stunning reissue in a beautiful new cover-look of this third novel in the critically acclaimed Ingo Chronicles. ... MoreThe Deep

(2 reviews) Review
5th July 2012

The Crossing of Ingo

Stunning reissue in a beautiful new cover-look of this fourth novel in the critically acclaimed Ingo Chronicles. ... MoreThe Crossing of Ingo

(1 review) Review
7th November 2005

Ingo

A spellbinding magical adventure. Master storyteller Helen Dunmore writes the story of Sapphire and her brother Conor, a... MoreIngo

(1 review) Review
6th April 2017

Storms

A thrilling and tempestuous novel of love and danger from the author of KOOK. Every storm breaks in the ... MoreStorms

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1st April 2012

The Ferry Birds

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20th April 2015

The Islanders

The inhabitants of Halcyon Island are ruled by the laws of the Deliverer and follow the same customs and traditions that... MoreThe Islanders

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    I loved this book. I love how Helen Dunmore made the idea idea of the deep and how she incorporates the story of the kraken. To describe the story in...

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    I loved Ingo, I was glued to the pages from start to  finish.  I think it was a great start to the series and I look forward to reading the next books...

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    I really liked the Tide Knot it was amazing.  I loved the idea of a tide knot breaking making the tides run loose. Just the whole concept of mer and I...