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A Spell of Winter by Helen Dunmore
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Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Essentials Ser.
Incarcerated in the enormous country house of their grandfather - 'the man from nowhere' - they create a refuge against their family's dark secrets, and against the outside world as it moves towards the First World War. As time passes, their sibling love deepens and crosses into forbidden territory. But ...Show more
Birdcage Walk by Helen Dunmore
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Category: Fiction
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'The finest novel Dunmore has written.' Observer'Superb and poignant.' Guardian'Quietly brilliant ... among the best fiction of our time.' Daily Telegraph It is 1792 and Europe is seized by political turmoil and violence. Lizzie Fawkes has grown up in Radical circles where ...Show more
Birdcage Walk by Helen Dunmore
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Category: Fiction
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 eager idealism. But she has recently married John Diner Tredevant, a property developer who is heavily invested in Bristol’s housin ...Show more
Exposure by Helen Dunmore
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Category: Fiction
London, November, 1960: the Cold War is at its height. Spy fever fills the newspapers, and the political establishment knows how and where to bury its secrets. When a highly sensitive file goes missing, Simon Callington is accused of passing information to the Soviets, and arrested. His wife, Lily, susp ...Show more
Exposure by Helen Dunmore
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Category: Fantasy Science Fiction Horror
"A deceptively simple masterpiece". (Independent on Sunday). "Will haunt you for months, if not years". (Guardian). "Outstanding ...if you only buy one book, make it this one". (Good Housekeeping). London, November, 1960: the Cold War is at its height. Spy fever fills the newspapers, and the political e ...Show more
Girl, Balancing and Other Stories by Helen Dunmore
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Category: Fiction
'Wisdom and wit shine out from Helen Dunmore's last stories' The Times 'It was her emotional concision that made her so exceptional, a quality on ample display in these posthumous short stories ... some absolute gems' Mail on Sunday 'I couldn't recommend these stories more.' Evening Standard__________ ...Show more
Girl, Balancing and other stories by Helen Dunmore
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Category: Fiction
Haunting, uplifting, beautiful: the final work from Helen Dunmore Helen Dunmore passed away in June 2017, leaving behind this remarkable collection of short stories. With her trademark imagination and gift for making history human, she explores the fragile ties between passion, love, family, friendship ...Show more
Inside the Wave by Helen Dunmore
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Category: Poetry | Reading Level: very good
To be alive is to be inside the wave, always travelling until it breaks and is gone. These poems are concerned with the borderline between the living and the dead - the underworld and the human living world - and the exquisitely intense being of both. They possess a spare, eloquent lyricism as they expl ...Show more
Latecomers (Penguin Decades) by Anita Brookner; Helen Dunmore (Foreword by)
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Category: Fantasy Science Fiction Horror | Series: Penguin Decades
Hartmann was a German, Fibich an orphan of World War II.... A novel about human relationships, focusing, unusually for Brookner, on two male characters. Hartmann and Fibich met at school and 40 years later they can no more think of living apart than of divorcing their wives. This book deals with their ...Show more
The Betrayal by Helen Dunmore
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Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Leningrad, 1952. Andrei, a young hospital doctor, and Anna, a nursery school teacher, are forging a life together in the postwar, postsiege wreckage. But their happiness is precarious, like that of millions of Russians who must avoid the claws of Stalin's merciless Ministry of State Security. So when An ...Show more
The Lie by Helen Dunmore
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Category: Fiction
Nominated for the Folio Prize Set during and just after the First World War, The Lieis 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 ba ...Show more
Zennor in Darkness: From the Women's Prize-Winning Author of A Spell of Winter by Helen Dunmore
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Category: Fiction
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-fever.Into this turmoil come DH Lawrence and his German wife Frieda, hoping to escape the war-fever that grips London. They befriend Cl ...Show more
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