The breathtaking conclusion to the critically-acclaimed Ingo series, by prize-winning novelist Helen Dunmore. Sapphire, Conor and their Mer friends Faro and Elvira are ready to make the Crossing of Ingo - a long and dangerous journey that only the strongest young Mer are called upon to make. No huma[...]
An atmospheric and beautifully written adventure, from the award-winning author of the Ingo series. Morveren lives with her parents and twin sister Jenna on an island off the coast of Cornwall. As Morveren and Jenna's relationship shifts and changes, like driftwood on the tide, Morveren finds a beau[...]
An atmospheric and beautifully written adventure, from the award-winning author of INGO
Stunning reissue, in beautiful new cover-look, of this magical and award-winning novel - the first of the spellbinding Ingo Chronicles...Once there was a man who fell in love with a mermaid. He swam down into the sea to be with her, and was never seen again...Sapphire's father told her that story wh[...]
Stunning reissue in a beautiful new cover-look of this second novel in the critically acclaimed Ingo Chronicles "I can't go back in the house. I'm restless, prickling all over. The wind hits me like slaps from huge invisible hands. But it's not the wind that worries me. It's something else, beyond t[...]
Stunning reissue in a beautiful new cover-look of this third novel in the critically acclaimed Ingo Chronicles A devastating flood has torn through the worlds of Air and Ingo, and now, deep in the ocean, a monster is stirring. Mer legend says that only those with dual blood - half Mer, half human - [...]
Stunning reissue in a beautiful new cover-look of this fourth novel in the critically acclaimed Ingo Chronicles Sapphire, Conor and their Mer friends Faro and Elvira are ready to make the Crossing of Ingo - a long and dangerous journey that only the strongest young Mer are called upon to make. No hu[...]
A whisper on the tide Sapphire's father mysteriously vanishes into the waves off the Cornwall coast where her family has always lived. She misses him terribly, and she longs to hear his spellbinding tales about the Mer, who live in the underwater kingdom of Ingo. Perhaps that is why she imagines her[...]
Set during and just after the First World War, The Lie is an enthralling, heart-wrenching novel of love, memory and devastating loss by one of the UK's most acclaimed storytellers. Cornwall, 1920, early spring. A young man stands on a headland, looking out to sea. He is back from the war, homeless a[...]
NOW A RADIO 4 BOOK AT BEDTIME In the winter of 1952, Isabel Carey moves to the East Riding of Yorkshire with her husband Philip, a GP. 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 on[...]
In the winter of 1952, Isabel Carey moves to the East Riding of Yorkshire with her husband Philip, a GP. With Philip spending long hours on call, Isabel finds herself isolated and lonely as she strives to adjust to the realities of married life.[...]
House of Orphans is bestselling author Helen Dunmore's ninth novel. Finland, 1902, and the Russian Empire enforces a brutal policy to destroy Finland's freedom and force its people into submission. Eeva, orphaned daughter of a failed revolutionary, also battles to find her independence and identity.[...]
Counting the Stars is a captivating tale of forbidden love and bestselling author Helen Dunmore's tenth novel. 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 society at t[...]
Bestselling author Helen Dunmore's third novel, "A Spell of Winter" won the 1996 Orange Prize. 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' - they create a refuge aga[...]
"The Betrayal" is the sequel to Helen Dunmore's hugely successful historical novel "The Siege", set in Stalin's Russia. 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 precar[...]
Helen Dunmore follows the lives of four ordinary people, united by love, trying to survive the siege of Leningrad in her powerful historical novel "The Siege". Leningrad, September 1941. Hitler orders the German forces to surround the city at the start of the most dangerous, desperate winter in its [...]
From the award-winning author of "The Siege," Helen Dunmore, comes "The Lie"; a spellbinding tale of love, remembrance, and deception, set against the backdrop of World War I.
Cornwall, 1920. Daniel Branwell has survived the First World War and returned to the small fishing town where he was bor[...]
Exploring the career to date of artist and environmentalist Kurt Jackson (b.1961), this visually rich publication, now available as an attractive paperback, has at its centre the artist and the natural world. Jackson's paintings are set in places that he has travelled to and explored regularly, and[...]
The malarkey is over in the back of the car - As soon as you turn your back, time slips. The humdrum present has become the precious, irrecoverable past. The ways in which the present longs for the past, questions it, tries to get in touch with it and stretches the power of memory to its limits, are[...]
Leningrad, September 1941. Hitler beordrer tyske styrker til å innlede beleiringen av byen, med sikte på total utslettelse. Det blir begynnelsen på en av historiens kaldeste og mest desperate vintere. Hvordan komme gjennom et slikt inferno? For Anna og Andreij - og Annas aldrende far og hans venn[...]
Året er 1952, og Leningrad er fortsatt en merket by etter nazistenes brutale beleiring ti år tidligere. Andrej, en ung sykehuslege, og hans kjæreste Anna, som underviser på et barnehjem, forsøker å bygge et liv sammen. Krigen er riktignok over, men Stalins regime vedvarer og holder folk i et j[...]
Krigsromaner har det med å fokusere på store, dramatiske øyeblikk. Med Beleiringen har Helen Dunmore lykkes med å skape en intens roman om krigen uten en eneste soldat - en bok skrevet fullt og helt ut fra hverdagens og kvinnenes perspektiv. Beleiringen er et besettende litterært portrett av kr[...]