Helen Dunmore

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Ingo

The Tide Knot

In this collection of short stories, the author takes the reader into a sensuous world of endless winters and midnight sun. As far apart as Finland, the Austrian Tyrol, and upstate New York, these stories come alive to the touch of estrangement, misunderstanding, sexuality and loss.

Love of Fat Men

Counting the stars

Finnland 1901: Eeva, Waise und Tochter eines ehemaligen Revolutionärs, kommt aus dem Waisenhaus in den Haushalt eines Landarztes, der in einem kleinen Dorf in der Nähe von Helsinki lebt.Die Anwesenheit des jungen Mädchens ist für den 46jährigen Witwer, der ein unglückliche Ehe führte und sich nach dem Tod seiner Frau völlig zurückgezogen hat, verstörend und inspirierend zugleich. Wie der Frühling die Schneeschmelze beginnen lässt, so erwacht auch das Herz des verschlossenen Mannes aus der Winterstarre.Als Eeva in Helsinki einen Jugendfreund wiedertrifft, der sich den Zielen der Oktoberrevolution verschrieben hat, gerät sie in eine Welt der Gefahr ...

Roman

Vom Schnee und von der Liebe

Tanya has gone from being an only child to having four brothers and sisters in one fell swoop. Quads are a nightmare. The house is full of dirty nappies, and her parents are so shattered that her dad falls asleep at work...Which doesn't make his (ex) boss very happy. Tanya's diary seems to be the only thing that's listening to her any more...

Brother Brother, Sister Sister

This text is a collection of stories from Helen Dunmore, ranging from Victorian tragedy to the tale of a dinner-lady's love, from the death of a lighthouse keeper's wife to the birth of babies from the Superstock catalogue.

Ice Cream

Sapphire lives in two worlds. On land she walks the rocky shores of the Cornwall coast—but under the sea she can swim like a seal by the side of her Mer friend Faro. Now both of Sapphy's worlds are threatened. In the profound depths of the ocean, where the Mer cannot go, a monster called the Kraken is stirring. He has the power to sweep Ingo away and shake the land from its foundation. Because of her mixed blood, Sapphire can enter the Deep. With a great whale as her guide, she will journey to a place so far from the sun, no light can find it—and confront an evil that's even darker.

The Deep

Tessa Hadley

Rebecca Watts

Magnus Mills

Shagufta K Iqbal

Sanjida Kay

Christopher Fielden

KM Elkes

Valda Jackson

Asmaa Jama

Joe Melia

Celebrated for its creativity, communal spirit, and culture of resistance, Bristol is a city with a loud voice and progressive reputation. But it’s also a city that has experienced division and inequality. In this anthology, ten acclaimed and emerging writers portray a city full of secrets, scars, and stark contrasts. From the elusive angel who turns up at a stagnant café along the Malago River, to the jilted lover caught in the crosshairs of the police, the stories gathered here lean into the turbulent magic of Bristol and will leave readers with a renewed sense of the city’s complexity.

A City in Short Fiction

The Book of Bristol

Talking to the Dead is bestselling author Helen Dunmore's fourth novel. There's nothing closer than sisters . . . 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 is Nina who comes to stay and help out her older sister. But Nina has other, important reasons for being under her sister's roof - not least of these is Isabel's husband, Richard. The tragedy that drew two sisters together so many years ago still has the power to wrench them apart . . . 'A writer of quiet deadly power . . . it takes two paragraphs to hook you. Don't resist' Time Out 'Dunmore's capacity for hauntingly psychological storytelling is on brilliant display' Sunday Times 'Flies off the page, startling the reader with its brilliance' Financial Times Helen Dunmore has published eleven novels with Penguin: Zennor in Darkness , which won the McKitterick Prize; Burning Bright; A Spell of Winter, which won the Orange Prize; Talking to the Dead; Your Blue-Eyed Boy; With Your Crooked Heart; The Siege, which was shortlisted for the 2001 Whitbread Novel of the Year Award and for the Orange Prize for Fiction 2002; Mourning Ruby; House of Orphan; Counting the Stars and The Betrayal, which was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2010. She is also a poet, children's novelist and short-story writer.

Talking to the Dead

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 have little to do with love. �Be careful,� warns Enid, the elderly sitting tenant in the house, who knows all about survival and secrets. And when Nadine discovers Kai�s true intentions, Enid�s warning takes on a terrible and prophetic quality.

Burning Bright

The Apple Fall is a remarkably assured first book of poems. It is a celebration of the lives of all kinds of women, from figures such as Virginia Woolf and Zelda Fitzgerald to the anonymous peace campaigners of Greenham Common. Helen Dunmore's poems are concerned with that web of family which constricts or supports us: about becoming a mother and living closely with children; about the many facets of solitude. Helen Dunmore has a strong command of rhythm, and writes with fluency and sensitivity to achieve both precision and sensuousness. Her poems are fresh and direct, combining authority with lightness of touch - rare qualities in contemporary poetry. The Apple Fall is a book of poems with the widest appeal.

The Apple Fall

Birdcage Walk

In a seaside town of sandy beaches and ocean breezes, Sapphy has never felt so far from the sea. The crowded shore at St. Pirans is nothing like the cove at Sapphy's old home, where she first found her way into the underwater world of Ingo. But Ingo's pull is strong, and it always finds a way. Soon Sapphy and her brother, Conor, are swimming beneath the waves again, riding the currents and teasing their Mer friend Faro. As Sapphy goes deeper into Ingo, she learns to feel more at home in the sea—even as she begins to be aware of its dangers. There's the danger of going in too deep, and breaking the delicate balance between Sapphy's life on land and her life in Ingo. There's the mysterious disappearance of Sapphy's father, an experienced sailor who should never have drowned. And then there's Ingo itself—a restless power as old as the world, as strong as the tides, and more dangerous than anything Sapphy has ever known.

They stand by side on the rock, facing out to sea. They are hidden from land here. Even spies would see nothing of them. It is spring 1917 in the Cornish coastal village of Zennor, and the young artist Clare Coyne is waking up to the world. Ignoring the whispers from her neighbours, she has struck a rare friendship with D.H. Lawrence and his German wife, who are hoping to escape the war-fever of London. In between painting and visits to her new friends she whiles away the warm days with her cousin John, who is on leave from the trenches, harbouring secrets she couldn't begin to understand. But as the heat picks up, so too do the fear and the gossip that haunt the village. And the freedom to love will come at a steep price. ______________________________________________ **Winner of the McKitterick Prize** 'Highly original and beautifully written' Sunday Telegraph 'Electrifying . . . Helen Dunmore mesmerizes you with her magical pen' Daily Mail 'Deceit gives Helen Dunmore's novel a jagged edge. Secrets, unspoken words, lies that have the truth wrapped up in them somewhere make Dunmore's stories ripples with menace and suspense' Sunday Times 'We believe in Clare's intelligence, talent and passion. A triumph' Independent on Sunday

Zennor in Darkness

An atmospheric and beautifully written adventure, from the award-winning author of the Ingo series.

Stormswept (The Ingo Chronicles, Book 5)

Anita Brookner

Latecomers

There�s nothing closer than sisters � Unloved by their distant mother, Isabel and Nina cemented their bond in childhood when tragedy struck the family. Many years later, with the difficult birth of Isabel�s first child, it is Nina who comes to stay and help out her older sister. But Nina has other, important reasons for being under her sister�s roof � not least is Isabel�s husband, Richard. Yet the tragedy that drew two sisters together so many years ago still has the power to wrench them apart �

'House of Orphans' is a spellbinding story of love and loneliness, of the differences between change and revolution, and of the terrorism that lurks everywhere in times of change, even in our private midst.

House of Orphans

The inaugural winner of England's prestigious Orange Prize, A Spell of Winter is a compelling turn-of-the-century tale of innocence corrupted by secrecy, and the grace of second chances. Cathy and her brother, Rob, have forged a passionate refuge against the terror of loneliness and family secrets, but their sibling love becomes fraught with danger. As Catherine fights free of her dark present and haunting past, the spell of winter that has held her in its grasp begins to break. "Dunmore touches everything: skin, bone, frozen earth." -- Los Angeles Times Book Review "[A] literary page-turner." -- Publishers Weekly (starred review) "[A] modern Gothic." -- Library Journal

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