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Helen Dunmore
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 -…
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Mandy Kirkby
A powerful collection of love letters shared between soldiers and their sweethearts during World War One.
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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 stories. Into…
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This novel of interlocking stories tells of Stalin’s first wife; of the loss of a child and its effect on three people; and gives an account of a young girl’s…
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Haunting, uplifting, beautiful: the final work from Helen Dunmore Helen Dunmore passed away in June 2017, leaving behind this remarkable collection of short stories.
Louise married Paul, brother to Johnnie… Yet she doesn’t get one man with this union - she gets two. Born twelve years apart in a one-bedroom flat in Barking, Paul…
Nadine, a sixteen-year-old runaway new to London, is set up in a decaying Georgian house by her Finnish lover, Kai. Slowly, she begins to suspect that Kai’s plans for her…
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Bestselling British author Helen Dunmore–novelist, poet, and first-ever winner of the Orange Prize for the year’s best fiction by a woman–delivers a haunting … twisting, sensually written tale ( The…
A collection of short stories from the author of WITH YOUR CROOKED HEART and LOVE OF FAT MEN.
Tara is bored. Staying in Grandma’s little apartment isn’t much fun. But when Tara sneaks into the garden, she has a wonderful surprise…Fantastic facts about World War Two. Discover what…
An atmospheric and beautifully written adventure, from the award-winning author of the Ingo series.
Posthumous winner of Costa Book of the Year 2017, this was the final collection by the renowned poet and novelist, much of it written from her sickbed while facing death…
The Malarkey was Helen Dunmore’s first poetry book after Glad of These Times (2007) and Out of the Blue: Poems 1975-2001 (2001), and was followed by her tenth and final…
Stunning reissue in a beautiful new cover-look of this fourth novel in the critically acclaimed Ingo Chronicles.
Haunting, uplifting, beautiful - the final work from Helen Dunmore.
Rebecca was abandoned by her mother in a shoebox in the backyard of an Italian restaurant when she was two days old. Her life begins without history, in the dark…
From the acclaimed author of Talking to the Dead comes a haunting novel about a judge whose husband is on the verge of personal bankruptcy and breakdown. As she struggles…
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…
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…
Praised by critics on both sides of the Atlantic for its elegant and sensuous prose, Talking to the Dead tells the story of two sisters whose lives are bound by…
If Catherine’s season was winter, Rob’s was summer. He was her reflection as the two of them huddled together amongst the debris of other people’s pasts. Abandoned by their father…
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’ -…
In a novel full of longing, mystery, and magic–the first in an exciting new fantasy quartet–Sapphire hears the call of the sea on the Cornwall coast where she lives with…
This posthumous retrospective of the popular winner of the Costa Book of the Year with Inside the Wave (2017) covers ten collections written over four decades. Expanded from Out of…
Unloved by their distant mother, Isabel and Nina cemented their bond in childhood when tragedy struck the family. Many yeas later, with the difficult birth of Isabel’s first child, it…
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…
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…
The Cold War is at its height, and a spy may be a friend or neighbour, colleague or lover. At the end of a suburban garden, in the pouring rain…
A missing top-secret file poses a terrible dilemma for colleagues Giles Holloway and Simon Callington at the height of the Cold War in London, where Simon’s wife Lily resolves to…
Stunning reissue, in beautiful new cover-look, of this magical and award-winning novel - the first of the spellbinding Ingo Chronicles…
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Stunning reissue in a beautiful new cover-look of this second novel in the critically acclaimed Ingo Chronicles.
Cornwall, 1920, early spring. A young man stands on a headland, looking out to sea. He is back from the war, homeless and without family. Behind him lie the mud…
A missing top-secret file poses a terrible dilemma for colleagues Giles Holloway and Simon Callington at the height of the Cold War in London, where Simon’s wife, Lily, resolves to…
From the bestselling author of The Siege and Exposure and the first ever winner of the Orange Prize comes a new novel set in Bristol at the height of the…
A collection of two plays including Snowman and Girls! girls! girls!
Stunning reissue in a beautiful new cover-look of this third novel in the critically acclaimed Ingo Chronicles.
Leningrad, 1952. Andrei, a young hospital doctor and Anna, a nursery school teacher, are forging a life together in the post-war, post-siege wreckage. But their happiness is precarious, like that…
Called elegantly, starkly beautiful by The New York Times Book Review, The Siege is Dunmore’s masterpiece. Her canvas is monumental–the Nazi’s 1941 winter siege on Leningrad that killed 600,000–but her…
There is a legend in Cornwall of a man who fell in love with a mermaid, a man who swam down into the sea one night and met his Mer…
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D.H. Lawrence
These three novellas display D.H. Lawrence’s brilliant and insightful evocation of human relationships - both tender and cruel - and the devastating results of war.
London, November, 1960: the Cold War is at its height. When a highly sensitive file goes missing, Simon Callington is accused of passing information to the Soviets, and arrested. His…
