Helen Dunmore



Helen Dunmore (born 12 December 1952) is a British poet, novelist and children's writer. Educated at the University of York, she now lives in Bristol. She has won awards for her fiction (the Society of Authors' McKitterick Prize and the Orange Prize) and also for her poetry (she has won the Cardiff International Poetry Prize, been shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize and had her books named as Poetry Book Society Choice and Recommendations). Dunmore is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature (FRSL). Some of her children's books are now included in reading schemes for use in schools.

Novels

 * Zennor in Darkness (McKitterick Prize 1994)
 * Burning Bright (1994)
 * A Spell of Winter (Orange Prize 1996)
 * Talking to the Dead (1996)
 * Your Blue-Eyed Boy (1998)
 * With your Crooked Heart (1999)
 * The Siege (Shortlisted for the Whitbread Novel of the Year Award; shortlisted for the Orange Prize 2002)
 * Mourning Ruby (2003)
 * House of Orphans (2006)
 * Counting the Stars (2008)
 * The Betrayal (2010) (ISBN 978-1905490592)
 * The Greatcoat (2012) (ISBN 978-0099564935)

Short story collections

 * Love of Fat Men (1997)
 * Ice Cream (2001)
 * Rose, 1944 (2005)

Young adult books

 * '''Zillah and Me!
 * The Lilac Tree (first published as Zillah and Me) (2004)
 * The Seal Cove (first published as The Zillah Rebellion) (2004)
 * The Silver Bead (2004)
 * The Ingo Chronicles
 * Ingo (2005)
 * The Tide Knot (2006)
 * The Deep (2007)
 * The Crossing of Ingo (2008)
 * Stormswept (2012)

Children's books

 * Going to Egypt (1992)
 * In the Money (1995)
 * Go Fox (1996)
 * Fatal Error (1996)
 * Amina's Blanket (1996)
 * Clyde's Leopard (1998)
 * Great-Grandma's Dancing Dress (1998)
 * Brother Brother, Sister Sister (1999)
 * Aliens Don't Eat Bacon Sandwiches (2000)
 * The Ugly Duckling (2001)
 * Tara's Tree House (2003)
 * The Allie Books (1997–2000)
 * The Ferry Birds (April 2010)

Poetry collections

 * The Apple Fall (1983)
 * The Sea Skater (1986)
 * The Raw Garden (1988)
 * Short Days, Long Nights (1991)
 * Recovering a Body (1994)
 * Secrets (1994)
 * Bestiary (1997)
 * Out of the Blue (2001)
 * Glad of these times (2006)
 * The Malarkey (2012)