Helen Dunmore

A spellbinding magical adventure. Master storyteller Helen Dunmore writes the story of Sapphire and her brother Conor, and their discovery of INGO, a powerful and exciting world under the sea. You’ll find the mermaid of Zennor inside Zennor church. She fell in love with a human, but she was a...

Random House presents the audiobook edition of Girl, Balancing & Other Stories, by Helen Dunmore, read by Emilia Fox, Kobna Holdbrook-Smith and Juliet Stevenson. Haunting, uplifting, beautiful: the final work from Helen Dunmore Helen Dunmore passed away in June 2017, leaving behind this...

Leningrad, September 1941. German tanks surround the city, imprisoning those who live there....

It is1792 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....

Nadine, a 16-year-old runaway, is set up in a Georgian house by her lover, Kai. Slowly, she begins to suspect that Kai and his partner, Tony, have plans for her that have nothing to do with love....

Set during and just after the First World War, The Lie is an enthralling, heart-wrenching novel of love, memory and devastating loss Cornwall, 1920. A young man stands on a headland, looking out to sea. He is back from the war, homeless and without family. Behind him lies the terror of the...

Forbidden love, intimate betrayal and the devastating power of exposure drive Helen Dunmore's remarkable new title....

Leningrad in 1952: a city recovering from war, where Andrei, a young doctor and Anna....

Longlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction, 2006.

Finland, 1901. Eeva, the young orphaned daughter of a revolutionary, is sent from the orphanage....

About thirty years ago, a mother laid her newborn baby in a shoebox and left it in the backyard of an Italian restaurant. Now the baby, Rebecca, is a mother herself. A child of no one and nowhere, she has created her own unorthodox but tender family. Then this hopeful life is dealt a blow that...

Living at the heart of sophisticated, brittle and brutal Roman society at the time of Pompey, Catullus is obsessed with Clodia, the Lesbia of his most precious poems....

In the winter of 1952, Isabel Carey moves to Yorkshire with her husband Philip, a GP. With Philip spending long hours on call, Isabel finds herself isolated and lonely. Woken by intense cold one night, she discovers an old RAF greatcoat in the back of a cupboard. Sleeping under it for warmth...