Helen Dunmore was the first winner of the Orange Prize and is also an acclaimed children's author and poet. She has published ten adult novels with Viking and Penguin: ZENNOR IN DARKNESS, winner of the McKitterick prize; BURNING BRIGHT; A SPELL OF WINTER, winner of the first Orange Prize; TALKING TO THE DEAD; YOUR BLUE EYED BOY; WITH YOUR CROOKED HEART; THE SIEGE; MOURNING RUBY; HOUSE OF ORPHANS; and COUNTING THE STARS. A sequel to THE SIEGE, entitled THE BETRAYAL, was published in the spring of 2010.

Helen has also published two collections of stories, LOVE OF FAT MEN and ICE CREAM. Her children's novels, published by Scholastic, include BROTHER, BROTHER, SISTER, SISTER and ZILLAH & ME. The second book in the Zillah series, THE ZILLAH REBELLION, was published in October 2001, and the third, ZILLAH LEAVING, in autumn 2002. Helen has also written four books of poetry: THE APPLE FALL; THE SEA SKATER, which was the winner of the Alice Hunt Bartlett Award; THE RAW GARDEN; and SHORT DAYS, LONG NIGHTS: NEW & SELECTED POEMS (1991), all published by Bloodaxe Books. Her collections of poems for children are SECRETS, winner of the Signal Award, and SNOLLYGOSTER. Helen Dunmore's poetry and fiction is translated into more than twenty languages.

Helen has recently published the fourth book in her acclaimed children's series INGO.

Helen Dunmore is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, and has received honorary doctorates from the Universities of Exeter and Glamorgan.

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COUNTING THE STARS - 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 the time of...
HOUSE OF ORPHANS - Political unrest stirs in the attic rooms and bookshops of early twentieth century Helsinki, as diverse groups of Finns dream of a life without Russian rule. On the death of her Communist father,...
INGO - Inside Zennor church you’ll find the mermaid of Zennor, carved in an old dark wood; her name is Morveren and people said she was the Mer King’s daughter. She wasn’t always so still. A long time ago...
INGO 2: THE TIDE KNOT - Sapphire and Conor’s mother has moved them to the town of St Pirans: further from the cove where their father went missing, and further – their mother hopes – from the seductive call of the Mer people...
INGO 3: THE DEEP - After the devastating flood which ended THE TIDE KNOT, Sapphire and Conor have moved back to their beloved cottage on the cliffs, and life is returning to normal. But only the two of them know about...
INGO 4: THE CROSSING OF INGO - Cold, strong water has got me in its grip. It hates me. It wants to destroy me. It will carry me to the back of the cove and smash me against the cliff . . . Dark despair crawls over my skin. Where is...
THE BETRAYAL - Summer 1952: the city of Leningrad has known peace for almost eight years – but underlying that peace is a deep and wary unease. Stalin’s Soviet Union is a land of whispers and...
THE GREATCOAT - The setting is 1952, and everything is new and strange for Isabel. She’s recently married and has moved to a town where she knows no-one. Her husband Philip is a doctor who works all hours,...
THE INGO CHRONICLES: STORMSWEPT - 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...
THE SIEGE - September 1941. German forces surround Leningrad, imprisoning its inhabitants, many of whom will not survive the Russian winter. What is it like to be so hungry you simmer your leather manicure case...