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The Lonely Sea Dragon (Hardcover)
Helen Dunmore; Illustrated by Rebecca Cobb
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Callum and Amy discover a sea dragon in a cave along the beach. The
sea dragon is lost and cannot find his friends and relatives. They
buy the sea dragon ice cream, chips with curry sauce and a balloon
to play with. As the summer ends it's time for the sea dragon to
find other sea dragons.
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The Ferry Birds (Paperback)
Helen Dunmore; Illustrated by Rebecca Cobb
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Stormswept (Paperback)
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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 beautiful teenage boy
in a rock pool after a storm. Going to his rescue, she is shocked
to see that he is not human but a Mer boy. With Jenna refusing to
face the truth, Morveren finds herself alone at the worst possible
time. Because when the worlds of Air and Mer meet, the consequences
can be terrible...
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 explore the bliss and
anguish of the voyage. Inside the Wave, Helen Dunmore's tenth and
final poetry book, was her first since The Malarkey (2012), whose
title-poem won the National Poetry Competition. Her final poem,
'Hold out your arms', written shortly before her death and not
included in the first printing of Inside the Wave, was added to all
subsequent printings. Her posthumous retrospective, Counting
Backwards: Poems 1975-2017 (2019), covers ten collections she
published over four decades up to and including Inside the Wave.
Costa Book of the Year 2017, winner of the 2017 Costa Poetry Award
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A Wreath Of Roses (Paperback)
Elizabeth Taylor; Introduction by Helen Dunmore
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Spending the holiday with friends, as she has for many years,
Camilla finds that their private absorptions - Frances with her
painting and Liz with her baby - seem to exclude her from the
gossipy intimacies of previous summers. Anxious that she will
remain encased in her solitary life as a school secretary, Camilla
steps into an unlikesly liaison with Richard Elton, a handsome,
assured - and dangerous - liar.
Winner of the Costa Book of the Year for her final collection,
Inside the Wave, Helen Dunmore was as spellbinding storyteller in
her poetry and in her prose. Her haunting narratives draw us into
darkness, engaging our fears and hopes in poetry of rare
luminosity, nowhere more so than in Inside the Wave, in its
exploration of the borderline between the living and the dead - the
underworld and the human living world - and the exquisitely intense
being of both. All her poetry casts a bright, revealing light on
the living world, by land and sea, on love, longing and loss.
Counting Backwards is a retrospective covering ten collections
written over four decades, bringing together all the poems she
included in her earlier selection, Out of the Blue (2001), with all
those from her three later collections, Glad of These Times (2007),
The Malarkey (2012) and Inside the Wave (2017), along with a number
of earlier poems.
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 when she was little.
When he is lost at sea she can't help but think of that old myth:
she's convinced he's still alive. Then, the following summer,
Sapphy meets Faro, an enigmatic and intriguing Mer boy. Diving down
into Ingo, she discovers a world she never knew existed, where she
must let go of all her Air thoughts and embrace the sea... But not
only is Sapphy intoxicated by the Mer world, she longs to see her
father once more. And she's sure she can hear him singing across
the water: "I wish I was away in Ingo Far across the briny sea..."
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 human being has ever attempted this
thrilling voyage to the bottom of the world. Ervys, his followers
and new recruits, the sharks, are determined that Sapphire and
Conor must be stopped - dead or alive...
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 the storm…” Sapphire
and Conor can’t forget their adventures in Ingo, the mysterious
world beneath the sea. They long to see their Mer friends Faro and
Elvira, and swim with the dolphins once more. But a crisis is
brewing far below the ocean’s surface, where the wisest of the
Mer guards the Tide Knot. And soon both Sapphire and Conor will be
drawn into Ingo’s troubled waters.
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
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 - can overcome the Kraken. Sapphy
must return to the Deep, with the help of her friend the whale, and
face this terrifying creature - and her brother Conor and Mer
friend Faro will not let her go alone...
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'Quietly brilliant ... among the best
fiction of our time.' Daily Telegraph 'The finest novel Dunmore has
written.' Observer 'Superb and poignant.' Guardian 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 housing boom, and he has everything to lose
from social upheaval and the prospect of war. Diner believes that
Lizzie's independent, questioning spirit must be coerced and
subdued. She belongs to him: law and custom confirm it, and she
must live as he wants. But as Diner's passion for Lizzie darkens,
she soon finds herself dangerously alone. ______________ Nominated
for the 2018 Independent Booksellers Week Award Longlisted for the
2018 Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction
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The Islanders (Hardcover)
Helen Dunmore; Illustrated by Rebecca Cobb
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Rose Wylie (Hardcover)
Bel Mooney, Mark Cocker, Howard Jacobson, Helen Dunmore, Mike Tooby, …
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Rose Wylie RA (b.1934) trained as an artist in the 1950s, but it
was her re-engagement with painting in the early 1980s, after a
period spent raising a family, that marked the beginning of a
remarkable career that continues to evolve and impress. This
monograph, the first of its kind, follows Wylie's fascinating
artistic journey celebrating her achievements while also examining
her current practice. Rose Wylie's large-scale paintings are
inspired by a wide range of visual culture. Her subject matter
ranges from contemporary Egyptian Hajj wall paintings and Persian
miniatures to films, news stories, celebrity gossip and her
observation of daily life. Often working from memory, she distills
her subjects into succinct observations, using text to give
additional emphasis to her recollections. In weaving together
imagery from different sources with personal elements, Wylie's
paintings offer a direct and wry commentary on contemporary
culture. Her pictures refuse judgment but reveal a concern with the
everyday that makes visible its enigmatic core. Drawing on a series
of extended interviews with the artist, Clarrie Wallis unpicks the
complexities of Wylie's visual language so providing an important
contribution to our understanding, and appreciation of, a
significant, and increasingly celebrated, figure in contemporary
British art.
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 central to this new collection
by Helen Dunmore. Joseph Severn recalls Keats hurling a bad dinner
out onto the steps of the Piazza di Spagna; the glamour of John
Donne's portrait 'taken in shadows' seduces a new generation; the
dead assert their right to walk through the imaginations of the
living - These are poems and stories of loss and extraordinary
rediscovery. The Malarkey is Helen Dunmore's first poetry book
since Glad of These Times (2007) and Out of the Blue: Poems
1975-2001 (2001), a comprehensive selection drawing on seven
previous collections. It brings together poems of great lyricism,
feeling and artistry.
Written in crisp, enthralling prose . . . the sense of deja vu
surrounding the story makes it all the more chilling. . . . Tense
and engaging.--The New Yorker "A perfect ghost story."--The
Independent Helen Dunmore is a bestselling novelist and poet whose
historical novels have been compared to Tolstoy, Emily Bronte, and
Virginia Woolf. In her new novel, Dunmore once again dives into the
past with an evocative and sophisticated ghost story about a love
affair between a neglected wife and a mysterious soldier. In the
winter of 1952, Isabel Carey moves to the East Riding of Yorkshire
with her husband, Philip, a medical doctor. With Philip spending
long hours on call, Isabel finds herself lonely and vulnerable as
she strives to adjust to the realities of being a housewife. One
evening, while Philip is at work, Isabel is woken by intense cold.
When she hunts for extra blankets, she discovers an old RAF
greatcoat hidden in the back of a cupboard. Sleeping under the coat
for warmth, she starts to dream. And not long afterward, she is
startled by a knock at her window. Outside is a young RAF pilot
named Alec, whose powerful presence both disturbs and excites her.
They begin an intense affair, but nothing has prepared her for the
truth about Alec's life, nor the impact it will have on her own. A
spectral tale of love and war that blurs the line between the real
and imaginary, The Greatcoat is an atmospheric and accomplished
literary chiller about quiet temptations and the lasting trauma of
battle.
**FROM THE AUTHOR OF INSIDE THE WAVE, THE COSTA BOOK OF THE YEAR
2017** Leningrad, September 1941. Hitler orders the German forces
to surround the city at the start of the most dangerous, desperate
winter in its history. For two pairs of lovers - Anna and Andrei,
Anna's novelist father and banned actress Marina - the siege
becomes a battle for survival. They will soon discover what it is
like to be so hungry you boil shoe leather to make soup, so cold
you burn furniture and books. But this is not just a struggle to
exist, it is also a fight to keep the spark of hope alive... A
brilliantly imagined novel of war and the wounds it inflicts on
ordinary people's lives, and a profoundly moving celebration of
love, life and survival. 'Remarkable, affecting...there are few
more interesting stories than this; and few writers who could have
told it better' Rachel Cusk, Daily Telegraph 'Literary writing of
the highest order set against a background if suffering so
intimately reconstructed it is hard to believe that Dunmore was not
there' Richard Overy, Sunday Telegraph 'Utterly convincing. A
deeply moving account of two love stories in terrible
circumstances. The story of their struggle to survive appears
simple, as all great literature should. . . a world-class novel'
Antony Beevor, The Times Novelist and poet Helen Dunmore has
achieved great critical acclaim since publishing her first adult
novel, the McKitterick Prize winning, Zennor in Darkness. Her
novels, Counting the Stars, Your Blue-Eyed Boy, With Your Crooked
Heart, Burning Bright, House of Orphans, Mourning Ruby, A Spell of
Winter, and Talking to the Dead, and her collection of short
stories Love of Fat Men are all published by Penguin. This edition
includes the first chapter of Betrayal, the sequel to The Siege.
With an introduction by Helen Dunmore Come for a walk down the
river road, For though you're all a long time dead The waters part
to let us pass The way we'd go on summer nights In the times we
were children And thought we were lovers. The Drowned Book is a
work of memory, commemoration and loss, dominated by elegies for
those the author has loved and admired. Sean O'Brien's exquisite
collection is powerfully affecting, sad and often deeply funny; but
it is also a dramatically compelling book - disquieting, even - and
full of warnings. As the book unfolds, O'Brien's verse occupies an
increasingly dark, subterranean territory - where the waters are
rising, threatening to overwhelm and ruin the world above. Winner
of both the T. S. Eliot and Forward prizes, The Drowned Book is an
extraordinary collection, a classic from one of the leading poets
of our time.
WINNER OF THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 'Tense, dark and intensely
gripping . . . written so seductively that passages sing out from
the page ' Sunday Times Cathy and her brother, Rob, don't know why
they have been abandoned by their parents. Alone in their
grandfather's decaying country house, they roam the wild grounds
freely with minds attuned to the rural wilderness. Lost in their
own private world, they seek and find new lines to cross. But as
the First World War draws closer, crimes both big and small
threaten the delicate refuge they have built. Cathy will do
anything to protect their dark Eden from anyone, or anything, that
threatens to destroy it. 'An electrifying and original talent, a
writer whose style is characterized by a lyrical, dreamy intensity'
Guardian 'Stops you in your tracks with the beauty of its writing'
Observer 'Has a strong and sensuous magic' The Times 'Her
spellbinding, lyrical prose is close to poetry' Daily Mail
**FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE COSTA BOOK OF THE YEAR 2017** 'Scrupulous,
pitch-perfect. With heart-pounding force, Dunmore builds up a
double narrative of suspense' Sunday Times 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 precarious, like that of millions of Russians
who must avoid the claws of Stalin's merciless Ministry for State
security. So when Andrei is asked to treat the seriously ill child
of a senior secret police officer, he and Anna are fearful. Trapped
in an impossible, maybe unwinnable game, can they avoid the
whispers and watchful eyes of those who will say or do anything to
save themselves? The Betrayal is a powerful and touching novel of
ordinary people in the grip of a terrible and sinister regime, and
a moving portrait of a love that will not be extinguished.
'Beautifully crafted, gripping, moving, enlightening. Sure to be
one of the best historical novels of the year' Time Out
'Magnificent, brave, tender...with a unique gift for immersing the
reader in the taste, smell and fear of a story' Independent on
Sunday Novelist and poet Helen Dunmore has achieved great critical
acclaim since publishing her first adult novel, the McKitterick
Prize winning, Zennor in Darkness. Her novels, Counting the Stars,
Your Blue-Eyed Boy, With Your Crooked Heart, Burning Bright, House
of Orphans, Mourning Ruby, A Spell of Winter, and Talking to the
Dead, and her collection of short stories Love of Fat Men are all
published by Penguin. Helen also writes for children, her titles
include The Deep and Ingo.
WINNER OF THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 'Tense, dark and intensely
gripping . . . written so seductively that passages sing out from
the page ' Sunday Times Cathy and her brother, Rob, don't know why
they have been abandoned by their parents. Alone in their
grandfather's decaying country house, they roam the wild grounds
freely with minds attuned to the rural wilderness. Lost in their
own private world, they seek and find new lines to cross. But as
the First World War draws closer, crimes both big and small
threaten the delicate refuge they have built. Cathy will do
anything to protect their dark Eden from anyone, or anything, that
threatens to destroy it. 'An electrifying and original talent, a
writer whose style is characterized by a lyrical, dreamy intensity'
Guardian 'Stops you in your tracks with the beauty of its writing'
Observer 'Has a strong and sensuous magic' The Times 'Her
spellbinding, lyrical prose is close to poetry' Daily Mail
These three novellas display D. H. Lawrence's brilliant and
insightful evocation of human relationships - both tender and cruel
- and the devastating results of war. In The Fox, two young women
living on a small farm during the First World War find their
solitary life interrupted. As a fox preys on their poultry, a human
predator has the women in his sights. The Captain's Doll explores
the complex relationship between a German countess and a married
Scottish soldier in occupied Germany, while in The Ladybird a
wounded prisoner of war has a disturbing influence on the
Englishwoman who visits him in hospital.
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