Helen Dunmore

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  • Bibliography:
    38 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    January 1994
  • Latest Book:
    January 2020
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Full Series List in Order

Ingo

1 - Ingo (Aug-2006)
2 - The Tide Knot (Feb-2008)
3 - The Deep (Jun-2009)

Book List in Order: 38 titles

  • Secrets

  • Burning Bright

    Nadine, a sixteen-year-old runaway new to London, is set up in a decaying Georgian house by her Finnish lover, Kai. Slowly, she begins to suspect that Kai's plans for her have little to do with love. 'Be careful,' warns Enid, the elderly sitting tena...

  • Zennor in Darkness

    In her prize-winning first novel, Zennor in Darkness, Helen Dunmore reimagines the plight of D.H. Lawrence and his German wife hiding out in Cornwall during the First World War. Spring, 1917, and war haunts the Cornish coastal village of Zennor: ship...

  • A Spell of Winter

    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 - '...

  • Fatal Error

  • Love of Fat Men

    In this collection of short stories, the author takes the reader into a sensuous world of endless winters and midnight sun. As far apart as Finland, the Austrian Tyrol, and upstate New York, these stories come alive to the touch of estrangement, misu...

  • Talking to the Dead

    Praised by critics on both sides of the Atlantic for its elegant and sensuous prose, "Talking to the Dead" tells the story of two sisters whose lives are bound by the hidden and surprising truth about the long-ago death of their infant brother....

  • Your Blue-Eyed Boy

    From the acclaimed author of "Talking to the Dead" comes a haunting novel about a judge whose husband is on the verge of personal bankruptcy and breakdown. As she struggles to shield her two sons from rising tensions at home, a letter arrives that th...

  • Brother Brother, Sister Sister



  • With Your Crooked Heart

    With Your Crooked Heart is bestselling author Helen Dunmore's sixth novel. Louise married Paul, brother to Johnnie . . . Yet she doesn't get one man with this union - she gets two. Born twelve years apart in a one-bedroom flat in Barking, Paul and Jo...

  • Ice Cream

    With Ice Cream, her first story collection published in the United States, award-winning New York Times notable author of The Siege and A Spell of Winter, Helen Dunmore confirms her status as a master of the shorter form (The Sunday Telegraph). In ea...

  • Zillah & Me

    With Friends Like Zillah, Who Needs Enemies? When Katie meets Zillah, she's pretty sure she hates her. Zillah is difficult and bad-tempered and makes it clear she doesn't want Katie for a friend. Well, that's fine by Katie. Just because she's new to ...

  • The Siege

    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...

  • Amina's Blanket

    Yellow Bananas Teacher's Guide Based on the Yellow Bananas series, this resource for teachers helps reinforce and enhance what students learn in their core reading program through engaging activities that focus on reading skills. Teachers will find: ...

  • Mourning Ruby

    Abandoned as a baby, with no ties to her parents, Rebecca grows up to create her own unique and unorthodox family consisting of Joe, a historian and loyal friend; her husband Adam, Joe's friend; and Ruby, her beloved daughter, until a terrible blow t...

  • Tara's Tree House

    Tara is bored. Staying in Grandma's little apartment isn't much fun. But when Tara sneaks into the garden, she has a wonderful surprise...Fantastic facts about World War Two. Discover what it's like to be an evacuee!...

  • House of Orphans

    Finland 1901. Eeva, the young orphaned daughter of a revolutionary, is sent from the orphanage to work as housekeeper for Thomas, a widowed country doctor. Her enigmatic presence disturbs Thomas as much as it fascinates him, shattering all the certai...

  • Ingo

    Ingo - 1

    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 ki...

  • The Tide Knot

    Ingo - 2

    In a seaside town of sandy beaches and ocean breezes, Sapphy has never felt so far from the sea. The crowded shore at St. Pirans is nothing like the cove at Sapphy's old home, where she first found her way into the underwater world of Ingo.But Ingo's...



  • The Deep

    Ingo - 3

    Sapphire lives in two worlds. On land she walks the rocky shores of the Cornwall coast--but under the sea she can swim like a seal by the side of her Mer friend Faro. Now both of Sapphy's worlds are threatened. In the profound depths of the ocean...

  • The Islanders

  • The Betrayal

    Internationally-acclaimed author Helen Dunmore follows her bestselling novel, The Siege, with a riveting and emotionally absorbing portrait of post-war Soviet Russia, a world of violence and terror, where the severest acts of betrayal can come from t...

  • Protection

    Penguin Specials are designed to fill a gap. Written to be read over a long commute or a short journey, they are original and exclusively in digital form. This is a chilling tale by Helen Dunmore.'It was nothing, she tells herself, but her body kno...

  • The Ingo Chronicles

    In this companion novel to the Ingo series, myth and reality collide when Morveren, a young girl from a Cornish island, discovers a Mer boy, Malin, half-buried in the sand dunes. New conflicts erupt between the worlds of sea and air, and storm clo...

  • Stormswept

    In this companion novel to the Ingo series, myth and reality collide when Morveren, a young girl from a Cornish island, discovers a Mer boy, Malin, half-buried in the sand dunes. New conflicts erupt between the worlds of sea and air, and storm clouds...

  • The Ferry Birds

  • The Greatcoat

    Bestselling novelist Helen Dunmore’s historical novels have earned her comparisons in the press to Tolstoy and Emily Bronte. In her newest book, Dunmore mines the past to chilling effect in this evocative and sophisticated ghost story about a love ...

  • The Land Lubbers Lying Down Below

    'Tonight it is the concert. Two Prodigies of Nature are coming to play in my lady's ball-room. As soon as the concert begins I understand why the whole world comes to stare and listen.'Scipio is eleven years old and a lady's page. He plays the harpsi...

  • The Lonely Sea Dragon



  • The Lie

    Published during the centenary of World War One to astonishing reviews and selected as a Richard and Judy Summer 2014 Book Club Pick in the UK, THE LIE is a spellbinding tale of love, remembrance, and deception, set before, during and immediately aft...

  • Exposure

    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 info...

  • Grace Poole Her Testimony

    in Reader, I Married Him

    A short story by Helen Dunmore from the collection Reader, I Married Him: Stories inspired by Jane Eyre.In ‘Grace Poole Her Testimony’, Grace Poole defends Bertha Mason and calls the general opinion of Jane Eyre into question.Edited by Tracy Chev...

  • The Little Sea Dragon's Wild Adventure

  • Birdcage Walk

    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 d...

  • Girl, Balancing & Other Stories

    '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 cou...

  • Girl, Balancing

    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...

  • The Crossing of Ingo

    The crossing of Ingo is an ancient and dangerous coming-of-age ritual: a journey to the bottom of the world. Sapphy and Conor have been called to take part, the first of human blood ever to make an attempt. But Ervys and his followers are determined ...

  • In the Money

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Award-Winning Books by Helen Dunmore

A Spell of Winter
1996 Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction -- Fiction


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Helen Dunmore has published 38 books.

Helen Dunmore does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Crossing of Ingo, was published in January 2020.

The first book by Helen Dunmore, Secrets, was published in January 1994.

Yes. Helen Dunmore has 1 series.
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